Lead Product Designer

About the Position

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

• Experience: 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.
• Management Skills: Direct experience managing people: setting goals, giving feedback, and helping designers grow in their role.
• Design Tools: Mastery of Figma to build clean, scalable components and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Mobile Development: Understanding the constraints of mobile development and designing systems that work in production.
• AI Tools: Curiosity about and comfort with AI tools for design and readiness to integrate them into the team's workflow.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills. You can present your ideas clearly, give constructive feedback, and inspire your team.
• Languages: Fluent in French and English, capable of presenting complex design rationales to international stakeholders in both languages.

Nice to Have

• Experience with other design tools and platforms.
• Knowledge of additional programming languages.

We Offer

• Classic package 🎓: Swile card for meal vouchers, Sidecare health insurance, and a mobility package.
• Sports 🏃: Access to fitness classes and wellness activities through Wellpass.
• Mental Health 🧠: Access to the mental health platform teale.
• 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.

About the Company

We are:

• Entrepreneurs – bold and action-driven
• Digital Crafters – passionate about product and user experience
• Explorers – curious, always eager to learn and discover
• Mavericks – free thinkers, creative, unafraid to go against the grain

These four dimensions coexist and balance each other in everything we do.

About Cafeyn

• Founded in 2006
• Co-workers 120
• Index de l’égalité professionnelle : 93/100

Location: Paris

Remote status: Hybrid

Employment type: Full-time