Contentsquare is a global SaaS technology company that empowers brands to build better digital experiences for all. Not to brag but… we have been recognized by Gartner as one of the four most innovative e-commerce technologies in the world, and featured in Wired Magazine as one of Europe’s hottest startups.
Contentsquare has 8 main offices across the world (Paris, NYC, London, Tel Aviv, Munich, Tokyo, Singapore & San Francisco) with 750+ clients globally including many accounts from the global Fortune 100. We’ve been experiencing tremendous growth as our team has grown from ~300 to over 850+ employees globally, and raised a $500M Series E funding in May 2021, the biggest total VC funding ever for a French start-up! This announcement garnered more than 350 media placements globally.
We can tell you that this growth is not going to stop here as we are anticipating to hire 1,500+ positions globally within the next few years and are looking for talented people like you - unique, ambitious, and enthusiastic - to join us and help us continue to innovate and improve user experience. YOU keep us going and your creativity drives us to be a better company. Come join the #CSquad family!
We are hiring a passionate Design Manager to reinforce our scaling Product Design Organisation.
You will contribute to the optimisation of our products' user experiences and participate in the building of our products' visions. We work in an agile environment, in close collaboration with Product Manager and Technical teams.
You will be managing and coaching a team of 3-6 experienced product designers based in Paris and Tel-Aviv, collaborating with stakeholders from other teams (PM + Dev + QA...).
We search for people who are always eager to improve both themselves and others. We love people who like to play with new and interesting methodologies, tools, processes and ideas.
Key responsibilities
• Coaching, Managing & Hiring. Coach 3 to 6 experienced and highly performing product designers. Ensure design quality and consistency of your team outputs. Create an efficient environment for them to learn and grow. Hire new team members and make the Product Design team grow as fast as the company.
• Design culture & operations. Cultivating a conducive environment for great design by helping with team processes like design peer reviews, team meetings… Identify opportunities to improve how we work and the relationships both within and outside the product design team. Support product designers in contributing to their respective multi-disciplinary product squad.
• Strategic support & guidance. Help the team up-level their sense of product strategy. Consider framework and methodologies to help ensure the team is considering the « why » behind their work. Not micromanaging their project but helping guide them to ensure things are on a healthy path (following our Design System, matching our standards…).
• Keep a hands-on approach. In some cases, leveraging your own design production skills to craft design projects by yourself.
Requirements
• You've successfully managed a team of designers and demonstrated your ability to help people grow.
• Experience leading operations of a design team (peer review, design process, cross-discipline collaboration, …).
• Passion for effective mentoring and coaching: you should love to help others grow.
• Strong strategic thinking and communication: you are someone who can help influence teams and evangelize design in the company.
• You are fluent in English (spoken + written).
• You have the desire to work in a B2B / SAAS technology context on a complex platform.
• You have experience in data heavy products, analytics and/or data visualisation.
• You have experience in using modern prototyping tools to communicate efficiently your ideas (we use Figma) to act as a role model for your team members.
• People describe you as an autonomous, rigorous and organised person and you are willing to work in a flexible and informal environment: we are in a phase of scaling, structuring and industrializing our design organisation.
Nice to have
• You speak French and/or Hebrew
• You have knowledge in agile methodologies.
• You have experience working with a Design System.
Why Should You Apply to Contentsquare?
✅ Our mission is focused on empowering everyone to create better experiences for all in the digital world.
✅ We invest in our employees through career development & opportunities, social events, philanthropic activities, and competitive benefits.
✅ You get to collaborate with and learn from smart and creative people around the globe.
✅ We are in this together #TeamSpirit.
To keep our employees happy and motivated, we are always assessing the benefits/perks we offer to ensure we are competitive. Here are some we’d like to highlight:
- Virtual onboarding, Hackathon, and our annual kickoff trip on a global basis! You have the opportunity to interactwith our global colleagues.
- Generous paid time-off policy (every location is different)
- We offer many benefits in various countries -- ask your recruiter for more information!
- Competitive parental leave policy (it can vary depending on geographic locations)
- Fun office culture with a big opportunity to make an impact on our growing global team, culture, including a Culture - Crew for every country to organize regular outings such as game nights, movie nights, and happy hours
#Uniqueness is embedded in our DNA as one of our core values, and we welcome everyone to apply to our positions.
Contentsquare is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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