A hybrid work model requires 3 days a week in the office.
We are looking for people who
Are experts in UX Design (+5 years)
Have experience in leading a UX team (+2 years)
Have experience working with executive leaders
Can manage their own work and coordinate team members’ tasks based on the company’s priorities
Know how to set priorities for the team based on the company’s strategy and KPIs
Are eager to help and support others in their tasks
Care about people’s development, inspire them to action, share knowledge, find new solutions
Are used to working in changing environments and adjusting their work and the team to the new challenges
Are team players - demonstrate flexibility when faced with the larger team’s challenges
Can identify problems and find solutions
Think about Customer, Merchant broadly - as a sum of many elements, eg. like how the product works, how it communicates with users, what is customer support like, what the dependencies with other products are, etc.
Use various resources to understand the problem from different perspectives
Have excellent communication skills - can tell user stories based on research findings, both during meetings with top stakeholders and in writing
Communicate well in English, both speaking and writing (at least B2)
What we offer
Working in a team you can always count on — we have on board top-class specialists and experts in their areas of expertise
A high degree of autonomy in terms of organizing your team’s work; we encourage you to develop continuously and try out new things
Hackathons, team tourism, training budget and an internal educational platform, MindUp (including training courses on work organization, means of communications, motivation to work and various technologies and subject-matter issues)
Well-located offices (with fully equipped kitchens and bicycle parking facilities) and excellent working tools (height-adjustable desks, interactive conference rooms)
Annual bonus (depending on your annual assessment and the company's results)
Long term discretionary incentive plan based on Allegro.eu shares
A wide selection of fringe benefits in a cafeteria plan – you choose what you like (e.g. medical, sports or lunch packages, insurance, purchase vouchers)
English classes that we pay for related to the specific nature of your job
16" or 14" MacBook Pro, 32GB RAM or a corresponding Dell with Windows (if you don’t like Macs) and other gadgets that you may need
Your main responsibilities
You will lead the work of one of the UX Design Teams in the Merchant Experience area (MEX)
Based on the plans in the area you will set operational tasks and priorities for your team. You will supervise the team’s work in order to fulfill the design roadmap
You will be responsible for planning UX design work in the product development process - from strategy to monitoring and optimization
You ensure that the experience is crafted to align with both user perspective and business goals
You ensure that recommendations from design work are targeted to key stakeholders and have impact on products/services
You will work closely with various departments, including product, engineering and marketing to ensure the user experience meets or exceeds user expectations
You will be responsible for observing and reporting UX metric changes for your area
You will be responsible for maintaining and improving processes in the UX Design Team
You will set and monitor the individual development of your subordinates
You will have an impact on UX design development in Allegro (e.g. you will be part of the Hiring Squad in the recruitment process, improve the design process & tools portfolio, create UX metrics, etc.)
Why is it worth working with us
Allegro is a mature organization with a high understanding of UX importance where decisions are made based on facts and knowledge about customers and merchants
We are one of the biggest (or even the biggest) UX Teams in Poland (A team of 150 specialists group into 3 areas and 18 UX teams - we are looking for a leader of one of them)
We have diverse skills and experiences - we share knowledge and help each other
On a daily basis, we work with stakeholders from different units, and our design challenges are never the same
We value creative ideas and experiment a lot
We focus on the constant development of the whole team and individual team members as well
Manager, UX Design