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Principal Product Designer - The Studio (all genders)

Employer
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Closing date
20 Jul 2022

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Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion, connecting 48+ million active customers, brands and partners across 23 markets. Our aspiration is to reimagine fashion for the good of all and be a more sustainable platform that is inclusive by design.

Design at Zalando is a community of 200+ product designers, content designers, user researchers and data analysts. At The Studio, we bring the customer perspective to strategy and make it tangible, through design.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Principal Product Designer at The Studio you lead complex strategic projects â€" setting the approach and ambition, guiding team members' activities, and delivering tangible customer experience vision. You work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and challenges, and shape projects to deliver impactful outcomes. You raise the bar for product design in ambiguous fluid contexts, and share your experience & expertise with the Product Design community at Zalando and beyond.
ABOUT THE TEAM
We are a team of designers working to bring the customer perspective to topics of strategic interest to Zalando. While we are UX-all rounders, we each bring an area of deep expertise to the team e.g. research, stakeholder management, UI design, branding (...) Our super-power is being able to chart a path and bring clarity to highly ambiguous topics.

We tailor our approach for every project so we can best discover opportunities to deepen our customer and partner relationships, and then craft creative solutions to tackle them. Through the artefacts of design, we help make strategy and vision tangible.
WE'D LIKE TO MEET YOU IF ...
  • You have experience leading design projects through ambiguous and strategic project from end-to-end from discovery through to delivery
  • You have strong skills in scoping & planning projects within fixed timelines and deliverables similar to an agency
  • You enjoy understanding and giving structure to new challenges
  • You enjoy shaping meaningful project briefs and flexibly adapt them to capacity & timeline changes when required
  • You have strong stakeholder management and communication skills
INCLUSION AT ZALANDO
We are committed to building diverse and inclusive teams. We welcome applications from people across dimensions like gender identitiy, sexual orientation, ethnic and religious background, disability status.

At Zalando we only assess candidates based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We only need to know why you are great for this role so avoid including your picture, age or marital status in your CV.

We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Please feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support and assist you throughout the hiring process.

do.Better diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/diversity-inclusion
ZALANDO BENEFITS
Career Development
  • We offer peer-to-peer performance reviews twice a year
  • Learn and develop through our extensive Zalando training platform
  • Join regular all-hands, team meetings, Q&A-sessions, and quarterly anonymous employee surveys to ask your questions and provide your feedback
  • Support from an international team of experts; mentoring and professional development opportunities

Wellbeing
  • 2 days paid leave per year for volunteering
  • Minimum of 27 holiday days per calendar year
  • Online sports courses, wellbeing, and nutrition advice offered by Humanoo personal wellbeing coach app
  • Mental wellbeing support by our Employee Assistance Program and professional consultants to help you find health resources

Flexibility
  • Flexible working hours
  • Relocation assistance for internationals
  • If you work from an office in your role, a choice of office equipment to be delivered to you, to support you working from home due to COVID-19 safety

Financial
  • Access to the employee shares program
  • 40% shopping discount on products shipped and sold by Zalando, and 30% discount on Zalando Lounge
  • Discounts from a wide range of external partners

Family
  • Employee parents’ forums and employee resource group
  • Supported transition into and out of parental leave, with a buddy and re-onboarding plan
  • 3 fully-paid child sick days per year
  • Free counseling, assistance, and referral service for all matters concerning yourself and your family via the Fürstenberg Institute


ABOUT ZALANDO
It’s the perfect time to join Zalando as we transform from ecommerce pioneer to a leading platform for fashion and lifestyle in Europe. Help us drive digital and sustainable solutions bringing head-to-toe fashion to more than 48 million active customers through a team with diverse skill-sets, cultural backgrounds, and interests.

do.More sustainability strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/sustainability
Zalando values: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/our-founding-mindset
Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/zalandodesign

Follow us on Medium: medium.com/zalando-design

Please note that all applications must be completed using the online formâ€"we do not accept applications via email.

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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