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Product Design Manager job at Agicap

Created in Lyon in 2016 by French entrepreneurs, AGICAP has become one of the fastest scale-ups in Europe, with more than 3500 customers and revenue growth of over 900%.

AGICAP makes it quick and easy for SMEs leaders to monitor and forecast their cash flow.

We are fundamentally rethinking the way SMEs manage one of their biggest pain points : cash flow.

Our ambition is to become the global financial management solution for SMEs in Europe.

With this, we have raised 3 rounds of funding, bringing our total venture funding to $121 million.

The additional funding will be used for further product innovation, to grow significantly the team across Europe by welcoming more than 800 new talents and accelerate international expansion into more than 10 European countries.

Our success is owed to our highly passionate and dedicated team. We are committed to building a company where people can grow and build their careers. We are looking for great talents who aim for excellence, ready to join this adventure!

Headcount Growth :

July 2019 : 10

July 2020 : 50

July 2021 : 200

January 2022 : +400

Our product organisation is split into 3 different teams led by our CPO, Maël.

Product Design

Today, Product Design is a part of the global product division at Agicap. The design team is split into design studios to respond to our different product needs.

Currently, we count :

- 12 Product Designers

- 1 Lead Product Designer

- 1 Design ops

- 1 Head of Design

- upcoming System Designer role

- upcoming UX / Copy Writer roles

At the end of 2022, we will be +30 design people.

We are looking for our next Product Design Managers to support the upcoming growth of the team.

Product Management

Currently, we count :

- 18 Product Managers

- 4 Lead Product Managers

- 1 VP Product Management

Product Ops

Currently, we count :

- 3 Product Ops

- 3 Product Support & knowledge

- 1 User Researcher Ops (+ upcoming User Research roles)

- 1 Lead Product Ops

Tech Organisation

Main Stack :

- Front-end: Angular

- Back-end: .NET

Currently, we count :

- 45 Fullstack Developers

- 15 Front-end developers

- 1 People Partner

- 1 Tech OPs

- 2 Eng. Manager

- 5 Tech lead

- 1 VP engineering

- 1 CTO

Role description :

We are looking for a Design Manager to strengthen our scaling Product Design Organisation.

Mission

Take care of the design studio staff and push design to the next level inside and outside the company.

Objectives

Work collaboratively

- Vertical: You will manage the Product Designers (individual contributors) integrated into a product line.

- Horizontal : You will work closely with Lead Product Designers of your product lines and other Design Managers to foster the more relevant options.

- Transversal and cross-functional: You will be responsible for the collaboration and pro-activity mindset of Designers and yours with their stakeholders: Product Management team and Tech teams.

People Management

- You will manage up to 10 Product Designers, meaning: guiding, listening, helping people to grow.

- Grow the team: You will hire, onboard, train, and off-board product designers.

- Career follow-up: You will ensure the development of designers with appropriate assets (meetings, evaluations, objectives).

- Managing administration tasks: You will manage vacations, expenses.

Design Strategy and culture

- You will foster a continuous improvement mindset.

- You will ensure all team activities are in-line with the tribe's objectives with the help of the Lead Product designers

- You will participate in the product and design vision, support them and inspire them with you teams end your stakeholders.

- You will identify design impact indicators to ensure its monitoring and performance.

- You will promote and spread design culture into the company and externally.

Product Design

- You will be responsible for implementing and using appropriate methodologies and processes to ensure good qualitative design.

Work environment :

- A caring working team and impactful driven environment

- Work based at Lyon or Paris,

- 2 or 3 days in remote / week2 or 3 days in remote / week

6+ years of relevant design experience in digital products, 2+ years in people management.
Leadership skills and attitude.
A diverse portfolio of work personally designed and shipped, along with examples of work directed and delivered by your team.
Deep understanding of user-centered design methodologies and best practices.
Advocate of taking/giving feedback at all costs at any levels.
Experience leading teams in framing and solving complex problems to uncover new value and innovation.
Strong customer advocacy with a penchant for data and business-informed design.
Experience in building/leading SaaS products in a start-up/scale-up environment would be better.
Ready to be challenged by the scale of a large scale design team expansion.
Manager and not an individual contributor role.
Manager and not an individual contributor role.

Do you want to discover more about Agicap, its product division, and its design team? Feel free to look at the following links:

Design team:

- Meet the design team by video

- Feel free to discover our last articles shared on Medium

Product

- Table ronde Product (in ??)

- Here is an article about how we do product in Agicap

Company

- Working at Agicap: Mission and Values

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