About the Position

Lead Product Designer

Join Cafeyn: Where Innovation Meets Inspiration

Cafeyn is more than a platform- it is transforming the way people access and experience content. Since 2006, we’ve grown in a fast-evolving market, adapting to become a leading digital reading service with over 2 million users worldwide. Cafeyn gives readers unlimited, personalized access to thousands of newspapers and magazines, curated to fit their tastes and delivered seamlessly across devices.

Our mission?

To empower individuals with access to trusted, high-quality content that fosters personal growth and discovery. Whether it's through the comprehensive collection of news and features on Cafeyn, the digital publishing solutions of Milibris, the fun and educative content for children on Kidjo, or the collections for manga lovers by Mangas.io, Cafeyn stands at the forefront of digital content experiences.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Growth

People Management: Manage 2 Product Designers. Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and support their career growth through coaching and mentorship.
Talent Development: Identify each designer's strengths and growth areas; create development paths that help them progress in their role and craft.
Design Culture: Build a team culture of rigor, ownership, and continuous improvement, and represent design's voice and impact to the broader organization.

Discovery & Shaping

Discovery Mastering: Define, plan, and execute the design discovery process. You will craft problem statements, build hypotheses, and create rapid prototypes to test with users long before a single line of code is written.
The "Shaping" Phase: Act as the bridge between Discovery and Delivery. You will ensure that final designs are platform-agnostic, brand-compliant, and technically feasible. You own the hand-off, ensuring engineers have everything they need to build with precision.
User & Business Centric: Understand and incorporate user needs and business objectives into your designs and your team's designs.

Design Craft & Design Systems

UX/UI Excellence: Deliver (and review) high-fidelity designs, complex user flows, and interactive prototypes that raise the bar for our industry.
Design System Contribution: Actively contribute to and evolve our global Design System. You ensure consistency across multiple brands and platforms (iOS, Android, Web).
Evidence-Based Advocacy: Partner with the Analyst and the User Researcher to integrate insights into your team's designs. You are the advocate for the user, ensuring the interface is as intuitive as it is beautiful.

Operational Excellence & AI Enablement

Process Improvement: Assess and improve the design team's rituals, tools, and processes to increase velocity and consistency of output.
AI as an Accelerator: Introduce and champion AI tools within the design workflow (research synthesis, ideation, prototyping, QA) to speed up execution and raise the quality bar, while setting the right guardrails for their use.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in Product Design, ideally within high-growth B2C environments handling millions of users across mobile apps, including at least one experience managing or leading a Product Design team.
Direct experience managing people: setting goals, giving feedback, and helping designers grow in their role. You see team development as core to the job, not a side task.
Master of the double-diamond: You know how to navigate ambiguity, facilitate brainstorming sessions, and turn messy insights into clear prototypes, and can coach others to do the same.
Figma proficiency: You use Figma to its full potential to build clean, scalable components and high-fidelity prototypes.
Mobile development understanding: You understand the constraints of mobile development. You don't just "draw" interfaces; you design systems that work in production.
Curiosity about AI tools: You are comfortable with AI tools for design and are ready to bring them into the team's workflow to accelerate velocity and improve quality.
Narrative skills: You know how to turn complex features into clear, compelling narratives that resonate with users and stakeholders alike.
Communication skills: You speak the language of PMs and Data Analysts. You are comfortable discussing conversion funnels, A/B test results, and trade-offs in technical debt.
Autonomy: You identify friction points in the user journey and propose solutions.
Excellent communication skills: You can present your ideas clearly, give constructive feedback, and inspire your team.
Languages: You are fluent in French and English, capable of presenting complex design rationales to international stakeholders in both languages.

We Offer

Classic package 🎓
- Swile card for meal vouchers
- Sidecare health insurance
- Mobility package to reimburse transport subscription
Sports 🏃
- Partnership with Wellpass for fitness classes and wellness activities
Mental Health 🧠
- Access to the mental health platform teale for psychologist appointments and mental health monitoring
Hybrid policy 🏠
- Work remotely two days per week
Cafeyn’s access 🗞️
- VIP code for unlimited access to all content on our platform
Team life 🪅
- Four office meet-ups per year to celebrate company updates and spend quality time together

About the Company

You don’t have to match all the requirements, if you feel this offer could be a great opportunity for you, reach out anyways! We hire based on talent and we promote inclusivity inside Cafeyn and strongly believe that our culture is strongest when it is the most diverse.

Lead Product Designer

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