Product Designer (Confirmed/Senior) - Remote Europe 🇪🇺

Pennylane SAS

3d • Remote

About The Position

Pennylane is seeking a Product Designer with strong B2B product design experience to help elevate and maintain an excellent user experience for their accountants and businesses. The role involves actively contributing from problem definition to research and testing, working in a highly collaborative environment with a genuine curiosity for understanding user behavior. The designer will be part of a team of 35+ product designers working across different tracks divided into cross-functional squads. Autonomy, trust, and transparency are key values, reflected in how designers operate daily. The company aims to become the most beloved financial Operating System for French and European SMEs, helping entrepreneurs with time-consuming financial tasks and providing them with key financial information, while also supporting accounting firms.

Requirements

• Strong B2B product design experience.
• Ability to understand problems and empathize with users through user research and data analysis, and to turn the result into actionable insights.
• Experience working closely with dedicated developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand technical constraints, align on project goals, and iterate on design solutions.
• Great communication skills and the ability to share knowledge with others, in the team and beyond, in a meaningful way.
• Excellent visual design skills with experience working on complex systems, including for example multiple modules, advanced features, and intricate data structures.
• Ability to document design decisions and work with engineers and product managers to drive projects forward, challenge limitations, adjust schedules, find alternatives, and advocate for solutions in a relevant way.
• Experience generating new opportunities and ideas to improve processes, products, and culture.
• Hands-on experience coaching and mentoring more junior members of the team.
• Fluent in both French and English.
• Ability to run user interviews in French is a must.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the accounting industry.

Responsibilities

• Actively contribute all the way from defining the problem space, to research and testing.
• Understand problems and empathize with users through user research and data analysis, and turn the results into actionable insights.
• Work closely with dedicated developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand technical constraints, align on project goals, and iterate on design solutions.
• Share knowledge with others in the team and beyond in a meaningful way.
• Document design decisions and work with engineers and product managers to drive projects forward, challenge limitations, adjust schedules, find alternatives, and advocate for solutions.
• Generate new opportunities and ideas to improve processes, products, and culture.
• Coach and mentor more junior members of the team.
• Lead discovery and user research sessions, diving into data, user feedback, and business goals to tailor user interviews and learn from users.
• Ensure continuous delivery on the scope of the product, hand-to-hand with the PM, with the right level of quality for the right purpose (low-to-high fi, prototypes) and in consistency with the design system.
• Contribute to the team effort, nourishing the team with experience, reviewing peers, and tackling transversal topics.
• Mentor junior Product Designers.
• Participate in the recruitment of new team members.
• Stay on the lookout for the best UX/UI practices, benchmarking the global tech ecosystem, aiming towards creating the best experience for Pennylane products.
• Recruit, mentor, and manage new Designers.
• Take on increased responsibilities in project leadership.
• Think of and implement new processes, tools, and best practices to ensure the team works even smoother.

Benefits

• Great healthcare cover (Alan Blue)
• Lunch credits (Swile card)
• Ability to work from office in Paris or from any WeWork in Europe
• Budget to turn home into a more comfortable workspace (for fully remote contract)
• Monthly allowance to work from a coworking space (for fully remote contract)
• Between 8 to 13 additional days off (to the 25 standard ones)
• Access to 8000 fitness spaces and more than 300 activities related to wellness through Gymlib
• Access to Busuu to perfect English or learn a new language
• Latest Apple equipment
• Part of a vibrant social community (sports, afterwork drinks, company seminar)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed