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In todays digitalfirst world content is the customer experience. As an individual or business people interact through content differentiate using content and achieve their goals with content. Content is what powers every single experience throughout our day.The User Experience team empowers builders to compose awesome content experiences through platform collaboration using a diverse range of products tailored to their needs.
Contentful is a customercentric platform company thats passionate and opinionated about content management and delivery within digital teams and leveraging the value of content throughout the digital organization. To help us nurture our Design practice and bring even more creative strategic and organizational talent into the team were seeking an experienced Senior Design Manager.
In this position you will report directly to the VP of Experience and will be responsible for managing a small team of passionate product designers and you will also play a critical role in the transformation and evolution of our product design practice. You can work from our Berlin office or remotely from Germany UK and Ireland.
What to Expect- Lead a team of 5 designers setting the design vision and priorities for our B2B Enterprise Saas product across 2 product lines covering Content Platform and Enterprise admin experiences.
- Translate strategic objectives into structured design processes ensuring solutions meet measurable customer outcomes that you help shape and measure.
- Partner with product management engineering and research teams to align on discovery solutioning delivery measurement and iteration.
- Guide research efforts by collaborating with the user research team to shape questions support discovery and synthesize insights into actionable opportunities.
- Facilitate workshops and alignment sessions to clarify opportunities and unify crossfunctional teams.
- Balance your strategic leadership with your own handson contributions such as creating user flows system maps and prototypes with your team (player/coach).
- Model resilience and adaptability fostering a culture that embraces change and thrives under evolving priorities.
Experience:
- Proven track record designing for enterprise customers admin users and platformfirst SaaS products.
- 8 years in product design including managing teams of designers.
- B2B expertise in CMS Martech Personalisation or ecommerce product design.
- Unifying and partnering with a wider global design leadership team to ensure consistency and shared product experience vision across the user journey.
- A background in Computer Science and/or engineering is a distinct advantage.
- Strong strategic UX thinking and problemsolving for complex technical products.
- Experience collaborating within triad teams of product management engineering and design.
- Ability to partner effectively with user research teams to inform design strategies and discovery efforts.
- Proficiency in design systems interaction patterns and accessibility best practices.
- Exceptional communication facilitation and stakeholder alignment skills.
- Resilient and adaptable leader who inspires trust fosters collaboration with partners and stakeholders and thrives in dynamic environments.
- Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
- Fulltime employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Fertility and familybuilding benefits including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
- We value WorkLife balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off including vacation days compassion days for loss education days and volunteer days
- Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual and inperson events including workshops guest speakers and fun team activities supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical financial or emotional health
- A monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement
- New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.
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Contentful is the intelligent composable content platform that unlocks all of an organizations digital content to deliver impactful customer experiences making content a strategic business asset. The Contentful Platform Contentful Studio and the Contentful Ecosystem combine the flexibility of composable content with the intelligence of AI empowering digital teams to drive business momentum through collaboration speed and scale. Contentful powers innovative content experiences across brands regions and channels for organizations around the world including nearly 30% of the Fortune 500. Nearly 800 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful working from hubs in Berlin Denver and distributed around the world.
Everyone is welcome here!Everyone is welcome here is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color national origin religion sexual orientation gender gender identity age physical disability or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
