Director - Product Design (m/f/d)
EGYM is revolutionizing fitness and health. With thousands of gyms across the globe using our ecosystem, we empower millions of members to train safely, effectively, and sustainably.This growth-oriented environment sets the stage for introducing a Product Design Director role (m/f/d) at EGYM in Munich or Berlin, who is passionate about building exceptional products and keen to elevate the EGYM experience. If you're ready to shape the future of our design organization including product design and research, this could be your next career move. Apply now and become part of our mission to make fitness work for everyone.
- Strategic Impact: You shape and lead the company-wide design strategy and vision, align it with business goals and market trends, besides other topics like the design system evolution, content writing process, localization
- Team Leadership: You lead a team of ~20 FTE, including 2 Heads of Product Design, Head of Research, Content Writing Lead, and Design Systems Lead in order to support them grow and deliver highest value; you are in charge of hiring coordination and budgeting
- Success Metrics: You optimize metrics like the design maturity, organizational effectiveness, cross-discipline integration, hiring success, brand alignment
- Operations Optimization: You are in charge with your team to evolve our design operations at scale: you ensure to stay on top of emerging technologies and design trends, implement efficient workflows, standardization across disciplines, and consistent tooling
- Stakeholder Alignment: You work closely with our Product Management, Engineering and Marketing executive leadership to ensure the teams effectively collaborate and we constantly improve the way we work
- Excellence Culture: You foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement within your team
- Experience: You bring 10+ years of experience in Product Design, including a significant portion in a leadership or creative director role
- Technical Skills: You master user-centered design, UX research, information architecture, and interaction design; you combine strategic thinking, problem-solving, and creativity with a sharp eye for detail and innovation
- Leadership: You bring strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills; you inspire teams, mentor talent, and scale high-performing organizations
- Track Record: You have led design success in international, fast-moving product organizations with diverse stakeholders and ideally a complex product portfolio, shipped complex digital products end-to-end, and demonstrated strong business acumen linking design to business outcomes
- Passion: You are passionate about fitness, health, and technology — and motivated by purpose and data driven product work
- Languages: You are business fluent in English; German is a plus
- Customer & Market Understanding: You developed a strong understanding of our customer needs and our market
- Product Ecosystem: You gained strong knowledge of the EGYM ecosystem and its value proposition
- Team Relationships: You earned the trust and appreciation of your team and key cross-functional partners
- Strategic Impact: You improved with your team user research and product design processes and helped shape our design vision
- Modern culture: Be part of a modern and international company culture where talent and passion are welcomed, heard, and part of the decision-making process
- Continuous Development: Develop your skills with varied, challenging tasks and regular feedback to benefit from a steep learning curve
- Work-Life-Balance: Benefit from flexible working hours, hybrid working policy (2 office days), and 30 days of vacation per year
- Fit & Healthy: Train for free with EGYM Wellpass in several thousand sports and health facilities across Germany and/or use our in-house gym with EGYM products
- Mobility: Enjoy a monthly travel subsidy of 45€ for public transport
- Discounts: Get a variety of great discounted offers, from fashion to leisure, through our employee benefits portal
- Bike Leasing: Stay active and use our leasing bike offer on your way to work or in your spare time
- Subsidized Pension: Profit from our employer-subsidized pension
Upload your documents (CV, salary expectations and earliest possible start date) and specify the job ID #1715. Contact: Marina LambrechtFor further information: https://career.egym.com