Botify is a global, enterprise software company focused on enabling the most ambitious brands to leverage organic search as a high-impact, performance marketing channel.
Powered by AI and a proprietary unified data model, Botify’s platform ensures web and mobile sites are optimized for search - increasing the number of pages seen, indexed and ranked by search engines - the foundation of being found by consumers in today’s dynamic digital environment.
As the leader in organic search innovation, Botify is trusted by more than 500 of the world’s most visible brands, including Expedia, L'Oréal, Crate & Barrel, Conde Nast, Groupon, Github, Carvana, FNAC Darty, and The New York Times, all of whom have succeeded in leveraging organic search for exponential, long-term results and revenue growth.
Botify is hiring a Head of Design, reporting to the Chief Product Officer, to lead our team of product designers in Paris, France.
We are looking for a leader who has built and scaled design organizations in start-up / scale-up environments, with a passion for solving customer problems and developing other designers. Candidates must be creative problem solvers, strong communicators, and thrive in a fast-paced, team-based, and results-focused environment.
What you wiil do:
- Lead, manage and mentor a team of 6 Product Designers;
- Cultivate an environment of diversity, transparency, and trust where designers can feel empowered to share ideas, be challenged, and fulfill their potential;
- Foster a design culture that encourages user research, product usage analytics, rapid design experimentation, and strong collaboration across product, engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success;
- Own the design strategy across the Botify suite of products;
- Be responsible for the overall design quality and the consistent achievements of our outcomes;
- Develop empathy for our users’ pain points and let their needs and actions guide us to the best solutions;
- Promote an outstanding design practice and ensure strong execution;
- You are still hands-on and can occasionally lead design projects across the entire product lifecycle.
Who you are:
- You have at least 10 years of experience designing web applications, ideally for marketing or analytics solutions, and you’re interested in technical applications;
- You are an experienced leader, manager, and mentor of a team of designers, with at least 3+ years of directly managing and building design organizations;
- Passionate about design thinking and collaborative modern product management;
- Great communicator in both English and French. You know how to inspire audiences at all levels, including peers and executives;
- Well-versed in collaborative design techniques, workshop facilitation, rapid prototyping, UI design, user research, design systems, and information architecture;
- You’re a team player with a sense of humor, and a desire to learn and share in an ego-free environment.
What We Offer
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:
- Location: brand new offices in the center of Paris (12 rue d’Amsterdam, straight out of Gare Saint-Lazare)
- Flexible Remote Policy & Working Hours
- Attractive Remuneration Package with BSPCE (for Permanent full-time role - CDI)
- Fun office culture & regular outings such as Team Off-Sites, Annual Kick-Off, Quaterly Team Lunch, Thirsty Thursdays etc.
- Lunch vouchers, 50% of transportation reimbursement, fitness classes, generous CSE advantages etc.
- Compelling growth perspectives
- Start date: as soon as possible
In addition to the skills and experience we are looking for, our ideal candidate would embody our core values:
Learn Fast. Progress Faster.
Go the Extra Mile. It’s Never Crowded.
Work Hard. Stay Humble.
Be Bold. Be You.
Botify is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.