Product Design Manager

Pennylane SAS

2d•Remote

About The Position

Pennylane is seeking a Product Design Manager with a strong strategic and design mindset and extensive experience in complex product environments. This role offers the opportunity to mentor, coach, and lead a team of talented designers to ensure partners have the best user experience. The ideal candidate will have proven experience working with C-level executives and executive committees, with the ability to simplify complex topics, communicate clearly with senior stakeholders, and adapt influence in high-stakes discussions. The Design team at Pennylane is central to the mission of delivering an accessible, seamless, and enjoyable experience for users, operating within cross-functional squads and valuing autonomy, trust, and transparency.

Requirements

Fluency in French and proficiency in English.
Strong track record of leading product design teams, preferably in B2B organizations.
Excellent eye for design and ability to assist the team with creative inputs.
Ability to align team decisions with the overall vision, JTBD, and design guidelines.
Experience fostering an inclusive, open, and engaged design team culture.
Comfortable communicating future design directions with senior stakeholders, including founders, and inspiring positive action.
Collaborative approach, with experience working closely with Designers, Engineers, and Product Managers.
Significant experience collaborating with senior executives (C-level, Executive Committee, etc.).
Ability to simplify, synthesize, and translate complex issues for non-expert audiences.
Comfortable presenting and defending decisions to senior stakeholders.
Skilled at finding the right balance in meetings—knowing when to lead, when to listen, and how to adapt approach to the context.
Experience in discovering and solving complex problems through data and insights.
Energized by an ever-shifting work environment.
Highly collaborative (within team or with other stakeholders).
Sufficiently experienced to prioritize business-led actions in day-to-day activity.

Nice To Haves

Experience in B2B organizations.

Responsibilities

Scale and level-up a team of 5 product designers, partnering with design leaders, cross-functional partners, and HR to hire, develop, and retain design talent.
Identify strategic UX opportunities to enhance user productivity and drive these forward with product and engineering peers.
Orchestrate user research with product leads and the team to understand user behavior, needs, and wants, converting insights into actionable strategies.
Measure the effect of design on business performance and oversee critical strategic directions.
Contribute expertise back to the business through insights and best practices for users.
Help the team balance speed, quality, and design consistency, focusing on JBTD and business goals.
Shape and establish design processes by driving design best practices for impact and efficiency.
Partner with design ops teams.

Benefits

25 vacation days paid
Competitive compensation package
Company shares
Budget to turn home into a comfortable workspace
Monthly allowance to work from a coworking space
Access to 8000 fitness spaces in Europe and 300+ wellness activities through Gymlib partner
Access to Busuu to perfect English or French
Latest Apple equipment
Remote work option from European countries (within a 2-hour time difference from CET)
Regular company events (Tech Days, annual seminar)
For employees in France: French contract, 6 to 12 RTT, 5 weeks PTOs, lunch credits (Swile), Alan Blue healthcare cover, regular events in French cities.