Design Director, Merchant

The Merchant Group focuses on making Wolt an integral part of our Merchants’ daily lives in all the 23 countries Wolt is active in. We provide our business partners with tools and automations that are useful, efficient, reliable, and delightful to use. Our products are built around self-service, which helps us keep trust at the core of our partner relationships.

The core skills of our design leaders are to coach, bridge and direct the function of design. This means, you are both a highly experienced manager and practitioner who can help push things in the right direction.
📍This role can be based in one of our tech hubs in Helsinki, Berlin or Stockholm, or you can work remotely anywhere in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, and Estonia. Read more about our remote setup here. If you live outside of these countries - not to worry! We provide relocation support to help you make your way to Finland, Germany or Sweden.
Qualifications
What you’ll do:
Shape the design vision of the products we make and create the necessary space for others to collaborate on reaching it.
Establish and drive high design standards that elevate the quality of the products we build.
Help to grow a scaling team by establishing best practices in design management and employing useful design frameworks.
Partner with stakeholders and other disciplines to facilitate successful collaboration and delivery within agile teams.
Lead a team of designers through the successful delivery of initiatives that often involve business stakeholders, product, tech and research.
Manage a multi-disciplinary design team, supporting them in achieving their career goals, as well as coaching them to develop further.
Navigate requirements and user needs to steer creative solutions that meet strategic goals.

Who you are:
You have extensive experience leading design teams with a variety of crafts (visual, interaction, writing, research, etc.) at consumer-focused or business-to-business product organisations that feature strong value propositions and high tech service integrations.
You have experience leading, mentoring, and managing designers to help grow their skills in research, design, ideation, innovation and systematic thinking.