Head of Product Design
almedia
📍 berlin💼 fulltime💰 €110–€150/hr🕐 1mo ago🔗 arbeitnow
Job Description
This isn’t your regular job. Almedia is a place where those who want to push harder can accelerate their careers faster than anywhere else. We’re aiming to become Germany’s second bootstrapped unicorn. Almedia is already Europe’s #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000).
We are building the future of marketing by rewarding our community of over 70 million users for engaging with our advertisers’ products. We are offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world.
At Almedia, you’ll:
* **Own way more, way earlier** — you’ll be trusted with responsibility fast.
* **Push harder, get further** — this isn’t a 9–5. We highly reward intensity.
* **Join a rare environment** — you will work with ambitious high-speed, high-ownership people.
* **Fully present** — we’re 5 days a week in the office to build the energising momentum we need.
**Head of Product Design**
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Salary range: €110,000-150,000/annum
We’re looking for a highly **hands-on and influential Head of Product Design** to join our team in Berlin. This pivotal role goes beyond execution; you'll lead by example, deeply owning end-to-end product experiences, directly shaping our design strategy, and significantly elevating the overall quality and impact of our user-centric products. If you're passionate about pushing design excellence and ready to dive into the details, we want to hear from you.
**What You’ll Do 🎯**
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* **Lead End-to-End Product Design:** Drive the entire design process from discovery and ideation through to detailed implementation, ensuring a relentless focus on quality, speed, and measurable impact.
* **Coach & Elevate Design Quality:** Act as a hands-on leader, directly coaching and mentoring a team of designers to continuously raise the bar for visual and interaction design, setting new standards across the product experience.
* **Drive Strategic Design Vision:** Collaborate intensely with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to align design with ambitious business goals, drawing on strong product and visual instincts and understanding competitor landscapes to shape a clear, impactful strategy.
* **Deliver Measurable Impact:** Champion a data-driven approach, conducting user research and analyzing performance metrics to directly inform design decisions that move key business metrics for users and advertisers.
* **Own & Enhance the Experience:** Proactively identify opportunities for improvement across our products (e.g., Freecash), taking full ownership to redesign, refine, and implement solutions that enhance usability, emotional connection, and overall user satisfaction.
**What You’ll Bring 💡**
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* Extensive experience (typically 7+ years) in end-to-end product design, with a strong portfolio showcasing impactful UI/UX work across mobile-first products.
* Exceptional visual and interaction design skills, demonstrating a meticulous eye for detail, hierarchy, and accessibility, coupled with a deep care for quality and polish.
* Proven ability to lead by example, actively coach designers, and inspire cross-functional teams towards design excellence and high-quality outcomes.
* Strong product instinct and strategic thinking, enabling you to form clear design strategies that align with business drivers, user needs, and market opportunities.
* A highly data-driven mindset, with experience using research and analytics to inform decisions, measure success, and understand what truly moves the needle.
**What Makes You a Great Fit 🌟**
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* **Highly Hands-On & Quality-Obsessed:** You naturally dive into the details, aren't satisfied until things are polished, and actively fix elements that don't look or feel right.
* **Impact-Driven & Business-Minded:** You're passionate about seeing your work directly move real metrics and are deeply curious about how design impacts growth, users, and advertisers.
* **Proactive & Emotionally Intelligent:** You take full ownership, proactively seeking out improvements, and consistently think about how users feel, creating rewarding and motivating experiences.
**Why Almedia? 🚀**
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* **Own Our Growth:** We offer all Berlin-based employees equity in Almedia to truly be a part of our success.
* **Scale With Almedia:** Grow alongside a startup that has been profitable from day one.
* **Central Berlin Office:** Work from a fully-stocked modern office built for collaboration, accessible from all around Berlin.
* **Other Benefits:** Transport subsidy, breakfasts and lunches, language learning, Urban Sports Club, and more.
We believe in fostering talent, evaluating all skill levels during the hiring process, and providing a clear path for growth. Almedia is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity, and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
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Compensation: €110K – €150K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
* • €110K – €150K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
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