Director of Product & Design

The role

You will own end-to-end product experiences from problem framing to design and launch. You will shape product and design strategy and lead the Design team.

What you will do

• Take full ownership of key parts of the Freecash experience from discovery to iteration
• Partner with leadership, Engineering, and Data to define product direction
• Coach and mentor designers to raise visual and interaction design standards
• Turn ideas into hypotheses and fast experiments using user research and data
• Bring AI into how product and design operate
• Identify, define, redesign, and ship solutions to improve usability and user satisfaction

Required qualifications

• Extensive experience across product and design in mobile-first B2C products
• Portfolio and track record showing impactful UI/UX work and product decisions that moved business results
• Experience owning product outcomes through defining problems, setting priorities, writing specs, and making trade-off calls
• Exceptional visual and interaction design skills
• Proven ability to lead, coach, and grow a design team
• Highly data-driven mindset
• Hands-on experience using AI tools

Nice to have

• Product Mind, Designer's Eye
• Highly Hands-On & Quality-Obsessed
• Impact-Driven & Business-Minded
• Built for Pace
• Proactive & Emotionally Intelligent

Benefits

• Equity in Almedia for all Berlin-based employees
• Central Berlin Office
• Transport subsidy
• Breakfasts and lunches
• Language learning
• Urban Sports Club

About the company

Almedia is Germany’s fastest-growing company and a global leader in rewards. It has been bootstrapped and profitable from day one.