Product Design Lead

Are you ready to work at Sweden's outstanding digital product & service company?

Why not join a workplace that gives you freedom, inspiration, incredible colleagues and a chance to work the way you want with projects you'll love.

Maybe you saw (https://medium.com/wearehumblebee/product-development-at-humblebee-5a63b18a78cd) and thought it sounded exactly like the place you'd like to spend your days?

Is this you?

We’re looking for a new Product Design Lead to join our team. In this role you will be managing our Product design team in close collaboration with the management team at Humblebee.

We think that you have at least 4-6 years experience in a Product Design role. You know how to design great product experiences and have an eye for visuals. You’ve got your Product Design toolbox and you know how to help teams build great digital products.

As this is a lead role we expect you to have experience leading teams and people. You understand team dynamics and know how to build effective teams. You enjoy helping people grow and reach their goals. You keep up to date with trends and development in your field and are looking for ways to improve your teams way of working.

What you will be doing

As a Product Design Lead at Humblebee you will be people manager for a team of designers. You will be in charge of setting a strategy for the team to ensure that we grow and continue to stay up to date. In addition to that you will be conducting salary and performance reviews, as well as driving team performance by coaching and supporting our UX team. In this role you will play a key part in hiring and resource allocation for the team.

As well as managing the team, all our Leads also work hands-on with client assignments as part of a cross functional product team. Most of the time that means responsibility for setting the Product Design and/or managing a cross-functional product team.

We think that the split between hands-on project stuff and managerial fiddling will be about 70/30, but you will of course have a lot of freedom in how you want to shape the role. Imagine this, it’s a Monday and you are leading your team’s daily standup. After that you’re preparing a design workshop until lunch. In the afternoon you’re interviewing a candidate and then you have 1on1’s with two of your Product design team members. It’s this type of mix that we think you will enjoy.

You are as important as your skills

We employ people as much for their human traits as their competence and skill sets. We like good humans around us. We work in a collaborative environment (design sprints, development sprints, workshops with clients etc) and therefore we employ people who are empathetic, kind, patient and gracious. We are Humblebee.

Good to know!

This position is full-time and based in our Gothenburg office with a hybrid working model (part office, part working from home). For this position a Swedish work permit is required. We do not offer relocation assistance or Visa sponsorship.
Humblebee is a multi-lingual company so please write your application in English.