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Mid-career Product Designer (multiple openings) (all genders)

Employer
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Closing date
14 Feb 2022

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The Zalando Community of Practice brings together over 160 product designers, each with our own unique mix of skills (Strategy, UX, UI, Service Design and specialty skills like motion design, branding, creative technology and typography).

We combine empathy, science and creativity to make engaging and joyful user experiences to ultimately reimagine fashion. To us, fashion is a way to enable people to connect, to express themselves, to create change and facilitate diversity.

Product Designers lead this charge on a variety of missions within a diverse range of business units. This one listing represents a variety of openings within Zalando: B2C work driving our core business; B2B work that well help us achieve our platform strategy; and employee-facing (B2E) software design to make us all more effective.

You will work in cross-functional teams in close cooperation with developers, product managers, business stakeholders and other designers. Teams work with end-to-end responsibility for solving meaningful customer problems â€" from ideating through prototyping and user testing to bringing features live and checking their performance.

Want to know more? Learn about our Product Design Teams or follow our Zalando Design blog on Medium.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
Act as a customer advocate throughout the process while being a great sparring partner to our product managers.
  • Discover opportunities to make Zalando products more satisfying and usable. Participate in user research along the customer journey to discover pain points and needs.
  • Design inspiring human-centered solutions. Bring concepts to life by iteratively creating prototypes at all levels of fidelity. Identify opportunities to reduce complexity and simplify the user journey.
  • Deliver the best designs by shepherding them through to implementation. Provide excellent and clearly detailed documentation of designs to engineers.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
  • You bring your own unique mix of design skills.
  • You are willing to solve problems by generating and iterating on multiple solutions.
  • You have knowledge of qualitative or quantitative research methodologies, translating insights into product design concepts.
  • You communicate clearly and convincingly in English (sharing knowledge and insights, explaining design rationales, etc.).
PERKS AT WORK
  • Inspiring peers. Product Design at Zalando is a highly diverse, international community of accomplished researchers and designers who drive our customer experiences to the next level.
  • Empowering culture. We value trust and have a bias for action. We are kind to each other. For us respect means challenging each other and giving direct feedback. We learn from mistakes. We laugh together. We share ideas freely.
  • Professional development. We believe in a purpose-driven approach to motivating and growing people. We help you to grow through mentoring, personal branding support, networking inside and outside the company, and rotation through diverse career opportunities within Zalando.
  • Perks. Competitive salary; great shopping discount on a wide range of products on Zalando; discounts from external partners; offices in the heart of the city; public transport discounts; relocation assistance for internationals; municipality services; flexible working times; family service and parent & child rooms (in many locations); volunteering time off; diverse sports and health offerings
ABOUT ZALANDO
Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising and research, bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 23 million active customers through diverse skill-sets, interests and languages our teams choose to use.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.
Q&A
Do you sponsor work visas?

Absolutely! For our locations in Berlin, Helsinki and Dublin we expedite visas for foreign workers to come join us.

Can I work remotely?

The health and well-being of our employees is our number one priority. Zalando currently offers a flexible working solution, encouraging employees who can work from home to do so, while offering a safe office space for those who need it.

Also, Zalando currently offers employees an opportunity to work from abroad up to 25% of the time* in 2021. (*regulations apply).
HOW TO APPLY
All applications must be completed using the online form and submitted in English â€" we do not accept applications via e-mail.

When you apply once, we will consider you for all Product Designer openings at Zalando. Please do not apply for multiple positions.

We appreciate designers with a variety of “skill shape” profiles. The form below helps us collect a variety of information to evaluate which openings would best fit you.

This is a single-page form. It typically takes 10 minutes to complete.

Company

Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. Founded in Berlin in 2008, we bring head-to-toe fashion to 35 million active customers in 17 markets, offering clothing, footwear, accessories and beauty from over 3,000 international brands.

Our platform is a one-stop fashion destination for inspiration, innovation and interaction. As Europe’s most fashionable tech company, we work hard to find digital solutions for every aspect of the fashion journey: for our customers, partners and every valuable player in the Zalando story.

Our goal is to become the starting point for fashion. We focus on the fashion industry and therefore operate in a variety of business areas.

  • Fashion Store
    Zalando online shops are tailored to local customers’ needs in 17 different European markets. The range extends from renowned global brands and fast fashion to local brands and is supplemented by our private labels.
     
  • Offprice
    The Offprice business of Zalando serves the sale of previous season’s assortments. As part of a shopping club, the Zalando Lounge offers registered members exclusive sales campaigns at discounted prices.
     
  • Zalando's Private Labels
    Zalando’s private label assortment includes shoes, clothing and accessories for women, men and children. With a total of six private labels, Zalando creates its own products, covering the entire value chain from design to sales.
     
  • Zalon
    Zalon is our style advice service, via which customers can consult and get inspiration from selected stylists regarding individualized purchases.
     
  • Zalando Marketing Services
    The entirety of Zalando’s expertise and scope is bundled in Zalando Marketing Services, which now offers personalized marketing solutions for our brand partners.
     
  • Zalando Fulfilment Solutions
    Zalando makes its own logistics capabilities available to external partners, so they do not have to be concerned with infrastructure issues but can concentrate fully on their core competence in the fashion business.
     
  • Zalando Partner Services
    Zalando helps other players in the industry to be successful in the digital world. For example, by connecting warehouse stocks with multiple retailers, by digitizing processes involved in fashion wholesale and by integrating offline businesses into our Zalando platform.


With a strong workforce of around 14,000 employees of over 130 different nationalities, Zalando unites diverse people, capabilities and concepts. Consolidating our effort and ideas scales our impact as an innovator in Fashion, Technology, Digital Marketing and Logistics Operations.

Company info
Website
Telephone
+49 (0)30 2759 4693
Location
Zalando SE
Valeska-Gert-Straße 5
Berlin
Germany
10243
Germany

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