Head of Product Design

Stealth FinTech Published: August 16, 2023
Location
Cologne, Germany
Job Type

Description

We're an early stage fintech backed by various unicorn founders, senior industry experts and various global tier 1 VC funds.

We are an experienced founder team who built and exited multi-million Euro startups before and we are now building a new FinTech startup with which we are entering a 100 billion Euro market.

You will get the opportunity to join a fast scaling startup as one of the first employees and you will work directly with the founders.

We are looking for a Head of Product Design to join us full-time asap.

Your tasks

  • You will be the first digital product designer and you will work closely in a product trio with product management and technology leadership on discovery and delivery
  • You have a holistic hands-on mentality in all stages of the process, in discovery, user research, concepting, ux design, ui design and prototyping
  • You will work with your colleagues on understanding the target customer needs in order to concept, design and deliver a great end-to-end experience
  • You will work with your colleagues on generating new ideas and hypotheses for value creation based on gained insights
  • You will be designing features and products that are a delight to use and easy to understand
  • You will be responsible for the coherency and design quality of the products
  • You will build and lead a product design team over the next years

Your profile

  • At least 7 years of relevant proven experience in the field of digital product design
  • Curious mindset, open for trying things out and failing multiple times until it works
  • 3 years leadership experience
  • Experience in leading a design process end-to-end
  • Fluent in German (we are working in a German B2B market)
  • Fluent in English (internally English is the first language)

What we offer

  • You will be one of the first hires, you’ll become an essential part of our journey
  • A great personal growth opportunity for somebody who is eager to create innovative digital solutions
  • Your own challenging area of responsibility, with the opportunity to develop as quickly as we develop as an early-stage startup
  • Sustainable product development (we validate before we build, and we build sustainably)
  • In this role your will directly work with the CPTO & co-founder, who most recently worked as CPO at a large ( 450m Euro revenue) German tech company, managing a 130 person product organization.

Previously he co-founded several startups as CTO, was an advisor on product and tech innovation topics to multiple startups and scaleups and is renown as an expert in modern product & technology development and organization

  • Competitive salary and participation in the VESOP program to share in the success of the company
  • Flexible working hours model, 27 vacation days and sabbatical options
  • MacBook Pro or a Microsoft Surface PC laptop or hybrid
  • Modern office with WeWork amenities (free Barista on-site, regular happy hours)
  • Subsidized Urban Sports Club Company Membership
  • A remote-first company with current team hubs in Cologne and Berlin. Our first company language is English, even if most of us are native German speakers
  • A professional, inclusive, and respectful environment for every member of our team

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