Product Design Manager

This position can be office-based in one of the following cities: Munich, Berlin, Barcelona, Madrid, Amsterdam, London or Dublin. 

At Personio, your work transforms the way millions of people experience work every day. Join our Product & Technology team, where we drive our customers’ outcomes by designing, developing and delivering innovative and high quality products. Be empowered to take ownership of your areas and make an impact on your team, our product, and our customers. 

In this role, you'll lead a large product area, providing clarity in all aspects of your domain, possessing deep, industry-leading experience, and being regarded as exceptional by peers both internally and externally. You'll manage and hire talent for diverse teams, drive high-impact initiatives, and lead an entire product group in collaboration with Engineering and Product Management partners. 

• Managing a team of individual contributors across various products and initiatives.
• Identifying, driving, and delivering high-impact and valuable initiatives for the company.
• Attracting, hiring, and investing in high-potential senior individual contributors and managers.
• Leading an entire product group in collaboration with Engineering and Product Management partners.
• Identifying problems and opportunities that others may not see.
• Ensures collaboration is productive, actively improves own function. Simplifies process, removes blockers, sets up best practices to drive speed of execution and outcomes. 
• Creates outsized impact on the quality of the design organization at large.

• 3+ years experience managing a world-class design team through performance management
• 10+ years of professional experience as a Product Designer, working in scaling or scaled tech companies
• Experience working closely with Product Management and Engineering to define product strategy and OKRs.
• Possesses experience in building and launching products at a successful product company.
• Ability to simplify objectives and projects to deliver in the most efficient and high quality way.
• Experience mentoring individual contributors, contributing to their growth and success, particularly through challenging projects or features.
• Experience identifying and consolidated frameworks, systems, tools, adding simplicity and driving velocity.