Product Design Director - 1 year fixed-term

Ecovadis is seeking a Product Design Director for a 1-year fixed-term role in Paris, France. The candidate will lead user experience for a multi-product portfolio, focusing on design strategy, user research, and team leadership. Responsibilities include developing the product design vision, enhancing usability, and nurturing a design team. Qualifications include 10+ years in design, strong communication skills, and business fluency in English.
Description

We are a global and multidisciplinary team of 20+ designers, researchers and writers. We aim to reduce the complexity of sustainable supply chain management to the right balance of flexibility, power, and ease of use, guiding all companies toward a sustainable world. We are responsible for Ecovadis'

Our Product and Solution team seeks a Product Design Director. In this role, you will lead all aspects of user experience for our multi-product portfolio, including visual and interaction design, user research and design systems (20 people). As the Head of Design, you will raise the agility and quality of our product experiences to be on par with leading consumer user experiences. You will shift the conversation from “How long does it take to do this?” to “What else can we do?” In this role, you will report to the VP of Ratings and Platform Product Management and have executive visibility to the Chief Solution Officer (CSO) of EcoVadis.

In this role, you will:
• Leadership responsibilities:

Develop and own the product design vision for EcoVadis. Through a partnership with our CSO, engineering and product leadership, and your own earned insight, you will craft the vision for how the design of our products will evolve and how this evolution supports our product and business goals;Work with product managers, engineering, and other stakeholders to establish objectives, high-level strategies, and key results for the design team. Understand the design needs of large-scale software projects, identify priority areas for design and break them down into achievable tasks;
• Creative responsibilities:

Develop design strategy, standards, and vision, ensuring the team delivers cutting-edge UX/UI, user flows, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and detailed mockups;Ensure the team and projects are well planned, scoped, and organized to ensure timely delivery. Champion fast iteration, user research, and smart experimentation;Enhance product usability by assessing qualitative and quantitative signals (ex: NPS, product usage, user testing);
• People & Ops responsibilities:

Lead and nurture a young and ambitious design team (based primarily in Warsaw, Poland);Ensure right tools and processes are in place for the team to do their best work.

Qualifications
• 10+ years of experience in human-centered or service design, ideally in building software subscription-based products (can be in either software or non-tech industries);
• Strong business results orientation enabled by a portfolio of world-class quality design achievements as an individual, manager, and leader; you are as comfortable with data as design;
• Execution-oriented mindset - with the humility, drive, and scrappiness to get it done;
• Experience collaborating with large teams. Strong communication, facilitation and presentation skills;
• Experience in the dynamic growth of a company and teams brings structure to uncertainty;
• Business fluency in English; ability to lead multi-cultural teams across time zones.

Additional Information

Our growing team in France is full of talented professionals from various fields who all share a desire to make sustainability real. We offer competitive salaries and support personal growth from day one.

This includes extensive onboarding, teammates' support and a brand new e-learning platform bursting with courses and modules. So you can learn new skills and fine-tune old ones!

In return for your expertise and energy, we offer:

Working organization benefits:
Casual and very friendly work environment
Hybrid work organization (from the office 4 times per month)
Flexible working hours
Home office allowance program
IT equipment allowance
Working from abroad policy
Opportunity to work in a truly international atmosphere

Compensation benefits:
Base salary + variable compensation plan
Meal vouchers (Swile)
50% transportation reimbursement (Navigo)
Sustainable mobility allowance

Wellness and Healthcare benefits:
Private Health Insurance (Mutuelle)
Gymlib susbscription
Wellness allowance

More:
Employee referral bonus policy
Access to online learning library
Virtual and in-person team building events

Our hiring team looks forward to reviewing your CV, in English, with a guaranteed response to every application. A new job with purpose awaits you!

Don’t fit all the criteria but still think you’d be a good candidate? Please apply anyway to give our hiring team the opportunity to assess your skills and to learn more about what you could bring to EcoVadis. We’re interested in hiring from a diverse and skilled talent pool, regardless of professional and educational background.

Can the hiring process be adjusted to suit my needs? Yes. We want everyone going through the hiring process with EcoVadis to feel confident that you are able to demonstrate your full potential. We welcome applications from disabled people, people with long-term health conditions, and neurodiverse candidates. If you need any adjustments, including the provision of interview questions, please let the hiring team know.