Design Team Lead (Europe-based, remote)

Posted 14 Days Ago
Remote
Senior level
Software
The Role
As Design Team Lead, you will manage the design chapter, focusing on user experience and design quality. You will lead product teams to create and maintain a scalable design system while understanding user needs to enhance meeting productivity. Strong communication and empathy for design are crucial.
Summary Generated by Built In

Sherpany is the Swiss market leader for meeting management software. Since its founding in 2011, it has pursued the goal of creating a world in which every meeting counts. Over 400 European companies and 12,000 decision-makers are already using Sherpany with the aim of making their business relevant meetings more productive and thereby increasing corporate success. With headquarters in Zurich and 130 Sherpanees from 27 different nationalities, we are an international company with a flat hierarchy, in which you can take lot of responsibility and your ideas are always welcome.

Your mission as Design Team Lead:

In this role, you will lead and manage the design chapter (UX, UI, UX writer), who work in autonomous product teams (squads) owning and developing Sherpany’s platform. We are convinced that offering a wonderful user experience and design is crucial to achieving a competitive advantage. You'll help the team to build up a scalable design system that ensures a consistent quality of user experience, and consistent User Journeys across features, products, and platforms. You help us by driving the whole product team to understand our users and their problems and then designing solutions that drive users to improve the productivity of their meetings in an easy and intuitive way.

 
What we will love about you:

We’re looking for an empathetic Product Design Lead, not only to help us build and grow our product but also our design team.

  • You have a proven track record of designing successful products that users love. Nice to have: with experience in B2B and SaaS;
  • You’re experienced in managing and developing designers’ and researchers’ skills and careers;
  • You have previous experience in building design systems;
  • You have outstanding communication skills across all stakeholders and the ability to motivate and transmit vision;
  • Nice to have: You speak and understand German at a native or “expert” level.

How you can imagine us: 

  • You will be part of an international company with a flat hierarchy where you can take on a lot of personal responsibility and your ideas are always welcome;
  • To ensure your work-life balance, we offer flexible working hours, remote-first policy and the possibility of unpaid vacation after your first year with us DIGITAL NOMAD @SHERPANY;
  • Your personal and professional development is important to us, which is why we offer financial support for further education, training, etc.
  • Your personal well-being is important to us - our partner nilo.health supports you in this;
  • We work with new technologies and Apple MacBooks, which will be provided to you when you start;
  • Last but not least: Our corporate culture means a lot to us, which is why we regularly organize great team events and cultivate a value-oriented cooperation.

    Recruiting process:

    1. Interview with our Talent Acquisition Specialist
    2. Interview with our Hiring Manager 
    3. Get to know the team members
    4. Get to know our Squads Lead
    5. Job offer 

    Signing Bonus: If you apply before 31st December 2025, you'll get a cool CHF 1,000 in your first paycheque! Speak to your Talent Acquisition Specialist for more details

    Milestones
    After 30 days (observe and learn):

    • First interaction with all your direct reports;
    • Understand Sherpany as a product, the product team organization, how we work inside and with other departments;
    • Understand how the design team works;
    • Present your role to the team, what you understood from the handover and their expectations.

    After 90 days (act and observe):

    • Take over UI/UX team and gain trust with the individuals and the team;
    • Understand Sherpany’s user and client base;
    • Understand what excellent meetings are;
    • Assess Sherpany’s design system and product from a UX/UI perspective;
    • Understand the product strategy and targets, contribute to product team OKRs and refine design team OKRs;
    • First interaction with all people across Sherpany you will work with.

    After 180 days (change and learn):

    • UX/UI team happy with you as new team lead, needed team changes are addressed;
    • Successful launch of new solutions designed since you joined → improvement in UX metrics compared to past launches;
    • The product team knows and appreciates the work you do as Product Design Lead.


    Are you ready for the challenge? 🚀 We look forward to receiving your application!

    Top Skills

    Ui
    Ux
    The Company
    Zurich
    130 Employees
    On-site Workplace
    Year Founded: 2010

    What We Do

    Sherpany is the leading Swiss meeting management solution, designed to meet the unique needs of the board, board committee, and executive meetings. Our solution streamlines the entire meeting process - from preparation and asynchronous collaboration to the distribution of digitally signed meeting minutes and action items to make meetings more productive and thus enhancing company performance. We prioritise security and compliance with a robust FINMA-approved and ISO270001-certified solution that centralises and ensures appropriate access controls of customer data. More than 400 companies already use Sherpany. Sherpany employs over 120 people from 27 nationalities in a remote-first setup

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