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About the Role
As Lead Product Designer, you will shape the future of Cafeyn's user experience across platforms and grow the designers who will build it. You will understand user needs and business objectives, translating them into visually appealing, intuitive, and effective designs, while managing and developing a team of 2 Product Designers. You will also raise the bar for the design team by improving operational excellence, embedding rigor, and introducing AI to accelerate design velocity and quality.
Responsibilities
- Manage 2 Product Designers, setting clear goals, providing regular feedback, and supporting their career growth.
- Identify designers' strengths and growth areas, creating development paths for their progression.
- Build a team culture of rigor, ownership, and continuous improvement, representing design's voice to the organization.
- Define, plan, and execute the design discovery process, crafting problem statements, building hypotheses, and creating prototypes for user testing.
- Act as the bridge between Discovery and Delivery, ensuring final designs are platform-agnostic, brand-compliant, and technically feasible.
- Own the hand-off to engineers, ensuring they have the necessary information for precise building.
- Understand and incorporate user needs and business objectives into designs.
- Deliver and review high-fidelity designs, complex user flows, and interactive prototypes.
- Contribute to and evolve the global Design System, ensuring consistency across multiple brands and platforms.
- Partner with Analysts and User Researchers to integrate insights into designs, advocating for the user.
- Assess and improve the design team's rituals, tools, and processes to increase velocity and consistency.
- Introduce and champion AI tools within the design workflow for research synthesis, ideation, prototyping, and QA.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Product Design, ideally within high-growth B2C environments handling millions of users across mobile apps.
- At least one experience managing or leading a Product Design team.
- Direct experience managing people: setting goals, giving feedback, and helping designers grow.
- Mastery of the double-diamond process, including navigating ambiguity and facilitating brainstorming.
- Proficiency in using Figma for building clean, scalable components and high-fidelity prototypes.
- Understanding of mobile development constraints and designing systems that work in production.
- Curiosity and comfort with AI tools for design, with a readiness to integrate them into workflows.
- Ability to translate complex features into clear, compelling narratives for users and stakeholders.
- Comfort discussing conversion funnels, A/B test results, and technical debt trade-offs with PMs and Data Analysts.
- Autonomy in identifying user journey friction points and proposing solutions.
- Excellent communication skills, including presenting ideas clearly and giving constructive feedback.
- Fluency in French and English, capable of presenting complex design rationales in both languages.
Skills
- Product Design
- Team Leadership
- People Management
- Talent Development
- Design Culture Building
- Design Discovery
- Prototyping
- User Research
- UX/UI Design
- Design Systems
- Figma
- Mobile Development Constraints
- AI Tools for Design
- Communication
- French
- English
Location
- Paris
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Lead
- 8+ years
Benefits
- Swile card for meal vouchers
- Sidecare health insurance
- Mobility package for transport subscription reimbursement
- Wellpass partnership for fitness classes and wellness activities
- Access to mental health platform teale
- Two days remote work per week
- VIP code for unlimited Cafeyn access
- Four office meet-ups per year
About the Company
- Cafeyn is transforming the way people access and experience content, growing since 2006 to become a leading digital reading service with over 2 million users worldwide.
- Cafeyn offers readers unlimited, personalized access to thousands of newspapers and magazines, curated to fit their tastes and delivered seamlessly across devices.
- The company's mission is to empower individuals with access to trusted, high-quality content that fosters personal growth and discovery.
- Cafeyn operates across multiple verticals including digital publishing solutions (Milibris), children's content (Kidjo), and manga content (Mangas.io).
Equal Opportunity
- We hire based on talent and promote inclusivity inside Cafeyn.
- We strongly believe that our culture is strongest when it is the most diverse.