Principal Product Designer

THE ROLE AND THE TEAM

The ZEOS Logistics department is responsible for all partner-facing multichannel Zalando Logistics Solutions. By unifying and collaborating these services under a single umbrella, we provide a more holistic approach to deliver the optimal fulfillment solution to meet our partners' needs and leverage common services to enable partner program growth.

As a Principal Product Designer at ZEOS, you will be responsible for customer-facing digital experiences for our ZEOS Logistics service offerings.  Your joint mission is to empower fashion and lifestyle brands to expand their business and increase their profitability across multiple marketplaces and countries throughout Europe through ZEOS.

Your impact will extend beyond strategic visioning, you'll be instrumental in fostering a collaborative environment. By providing clear, constructive design feedback and skillfully navigating the roles of leader, supporter, and collaborator, you'll play a crucial role in enhancing the design team's capabilities and resilience, ensuring our design solutions are as innovative and user-centric as our technology.

INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN

If you think you have what it takes, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

At Zalando, our vision is to be the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce – one that thrives on diversity and is truly inclusive by design. We believe that diverse teams fuel innovation and creativity, and we actively seek out talent from all backgrounds.

We actively seek to reduce bias in our hiring and employment processes, focusing on your qualifications, skills, and contributions. To support this, we kindly ask that you refrain from including personal details such as your photo, age, or marital status in your CV, ensuring a fair and equitable evaluation based solely on your abilities and potential.

We are committed to providing an exceptional and accessible candidate experience for everyone. If you require any accommodations to support you throughout the hiring process, please let us know – we are here to assist you.

Discover more about our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace:https://jobs.zalando.com/en/our-culture/diversity-and-inclusion

WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• You will help define the CX vision for the B2B space in ZEOS, bringing systems thinking to life at a 3-year horizon, building connections between teams and topics, and inspiring a shared direction for the merchants, their end customers, and the partners we serve.

• You will jointly plan and conduct research together with researchers and product managers, shaping quantitative and qualitative data to support two key areas: assessing and validating new problem spaces and evaluating design solutions as a core part of the iterative validation process.

• You will leverage merchant and customer insights to drive strategic projects, navigating predominantly undefined problem spaces,  assessing whether problems are worth solving and identifying opportunities for delivering value via the user experience.You will define and activate design principles, and work to align the team and the solutions with them, ensuring the experiences delivered are of high quality and will deliver meaningful impact to our customers.  

• You will solve complex problems, harnessing technological innovations to improve experiences. You set standards through solution designs and customer journeys that other designers draw from, raising the bar for design quality and means of evaluation.

• You will scope, define and oversee deliverables, ensure product development teams have everything they need, and raise the quality bar for what goes live.

• You'll mentor fellow designers and spearhead key design ops initiatives that improve team health and ways of working. and build knowledge-sharing channels across your team and the community.

• You'll lead by example, role-modelling user-centred design practices and producing high-quality work regardless of the size of the task.

• As a thought leader and role model, you will contribute to the Zalando Product Design community through mentoring, teaching, writing, and raising the bar in design reviews and conversations.

WE'D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

• Experience: You have significant product design experience leading strategic, cross-product initiatives, with a track record of raising the bar on design quality and pushing creative boundaries. You have a proven track record designing and delivering robust, scalable B2B experiences across products, partnering with stakeholders and other designers to develop remarkable solutions.

• Leadership: You create clarity amid uncertainty, guiding collaborators through complex and undefined challenges, and influencing direction with executive-level stakeholders across products and organisations.

• Collaboration: You build connections across products, pillars and organisations, aligning diverse teams around a shared design direction in a complex B2B environment.

• Complexity: You have worked on ambiguous strategic projects, are able to create clarity amid uncertainty, and can guide team members through such projects. 

• Insight: You have strong analytical skills, interpreting data and insights to inform creative decisions.

• Craft: You have mastered the end-to-end iterative design process including how to develop and apply research, design thinking, user stories, journey mapping, wire-framing, prototyping, design systems, user testing, and high-fidelity visuals to achieve human-centered design solutions across holistic customer journeys. Proficiency with current industry design and collaboration tools including Figma is a must. Experience working with prompting tools (e.g. Loveable, Claude , etc) as part of the design process is plus. 

• Human-Centered : You love designing innovative technology products and place humans at the centre of your design process, ensuring that geeky tech and forward-looking experience design always serves real human needs.

• Delivery: You oversee quality at scale across multiple workstreams and ensure product development teams have everything they need to build designed solutions to a consistently high bar.

• Experimentation: You have a generative approach and strive to solve problems in the best way possible through iteration, leveraging data and insights to drive future iterations and features.

• Empathy: You have the mindset and methodologies to understand your customers, their end users, colleagues and employees.

• Storytelling: You communicate design vision and decisions compellingly to executive and cross-organisational audiences, making the why behind your choices as clear and convincing as the what.

OUR OFFER

Zalando provides a range of benefits, here’s an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.

• 27 days of holiday a year to start for full-time employees (+1 day for every calendar year up to 30 days)

• 2 paid volunteering days a year

• Hybrid working model with up to 60% remote per week, actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration

• Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year

• Employee shares program

• 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Lounge by Zalando, discounts from external partners

• Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)

• Family services, including counseling and support

• Health and wellbeing options (including Wellhub, formerly Gympass)

• Mental health support and coaching available

• Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review