Product Design Lead (f/m/d)

About deskbird

At deskbird, you’ll own design excellence, leading and growing a high-performing Product Design team to create truly standout user experiences.

Your mission: elevate our UX even further, making our workplace management solution the most intuitive and user-centered on the market. As our Product Design Lead, your influence will extend across teams and touchpoints, shaping how we approach design and fostering a culture of creativity, speed, and empathy for our users.

We’re looking for someone with vision, a scalable mindset, and the drive to craft simple, elegant interfaces that people genuinely love.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL

• Lead and develop a team of 4–5 high-performing Product Designers, providing the support they need to grow and perform at their best.
• Apply your B2B design expertise in a squad that is responsible to bring our admin experience to the next level
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering leaders to align on priorities, advocate for customer impact, and influence product strategy.
• Develop and operationalise scalable design practices, processes, and tooling that enable consistency, quality, rapid iteration, experimentation, and learning.
• Oversee the end-to-end design process, from concept to implementation, ensuring seamless and delightful user experience.
• Participate in - and when needed, lead - discovery activities with customers to uncover real user pain points and challenges.
• Evolve deskbird’s design system to scale with the product, ensuring consistency and broad adoption while supporting creative flexibility.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

• 6+ years of Product Design experience, with at least 3 years leading and scaling high-performing design teams in mid-market or enterprise B2B SaaS environments.
• Strong people leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring designers, fostering growth, and building an empowering, feedback-driven team culture.
• Track record of successfully aligning stakeholders and leadership from various departments like Sales, CS and Marketing.
• Proven ability to drive operational excellence, with deep expertise in building, evolving, and scaling design systems.
• Comfortable switching between strategic leadership and hands-on design work when needed and setting the bar for quality.
• Ability to work with both qualitative and quantitative data to inform your decisions and lead alignment around how to proceed.
• Strong sense of urgency and drive to optimise learning velocity.
• Fluency in English (German or French is a plus).

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Accelerate your career growth: Join Europe’s leading workplace management software company and unlock rapid professional development.
• Company-wide summit: Connect with the entire team at our annual summit, held in dynamic locations across Europe. Check out the video from our last company summit.
• “Bursts”: Collaborate with your team face-to-face through our in-person meeting support.
• Home office equipment: As a remote-first company, we support your home office setup with financial assistance to ensure you have everything you need.
• Co-working budget: Work from modern co-working spaces near you with our co-working budget.
• Learning and development: Invest in your future with a yearly development budget for coaching, certifications, and conferences.
• Cutting-edge technologies & autonomy: Enjoy high levels of autonomy, access to the latest tech, and a dynamic international work environment.