Director - Product Design (m/f/d)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Germany, Munich, Germany, Berlin

Your daily workout

EGYM is revolutionizing fitness and health. With thousands of gyms across the globe using our ecosystem, we empower millions of members to train safely, effectively, and sustainably.
This growth-oriented environment sets the stage for introducing a Product Design Director role (m/f/d) at EGYM in Munich or Berlin, who is passionate about building exceptional products and keen to elevate the EGYM experience. If you're ready to shape the future of our design organization including product design and research, this could be your next career move. Apply now and become part of our mission to make fitness work for everyone.

Strategic Impact: You shape and lead the company-wide design strategy and vision, align it with business goals and market trends, besides other topics like the design system evolution, content writing process, localization
Team Leadership: You lead a team of ~20 FTE, including 2 Heads of Product Design, Head of Research, Content Writing Lead, and Design Systems Lead in order to support them grow and deliver highest value; you are in charge of hiring coordination and budgeting
Success Metrics: You optimize metrics like the design maturity, organizational effectiveness, cross-discipline integration, hiring success, brand alignment
Operations Optimization: You are in charge with your team to evolve our design operations at scale: you ensure to stay on top of emerging technologies and design trends, implement efficient workflows, standardization across disciplines, and consistent tooling
Stakeholder Alignment: You work closely with our Product Management, Engineering and Marketing executive leadership to ensure the teams effectively collaborate and we constantly improve the way we work
Excellence Culture: You foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement within your team

Your fitness level

Experience: You bring 10+ years of experience in Product Design, including a significant portion in a leadership or creative director role
Technical Skills: You master user-centered design, UX research, information architecture, and interaction design; you combine strategic thinking, problem-solving, and creativity with a sharp eye for detail and innovation
Leadership: You bring strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills; you inspire teams, mentor talent, and scale high-performing organizations
Track Record: You have led design success in international, fast-moving product organizations with diverse stakeholders and ideally a complex product portfolio, shipped complex digital products end-to-end, and demonstrated strong business acumen linking design to business outcomes
Passion: You are passionate about fitness, health, and technology — and motivated by purpose and data driven product work
Languages: You are business fluent in English; German is a plus

Your training goal for your first 6 months

Customer & Market Understanding: You developed a strong understanding of our customer needs and our market
Product Ecosystem: You gained strong knowledge of the EGYM ecosystem and its value proposition
Team Relationships: You earned the trust and appreciation of your team and key cross-functional partners
Strategic Impact: You improved with your team user research and product design processes and helped shape our design vision

The equipment we provide

Modern culture: Be part of a modern and international company culture where talent and passion are welcomed, heard, and part of the decision-making process
Continuous Development: Develop your skills with varied, challenging tasks and regular feedback to benefit from a steep learning curve
Work-Life-Balance: Benefit from flexible working hours, hybrid working policy (2 office days), and 30 days of vacation per year
Fit & Healthy: Train for free with EGYM Wellpass in several thousand sports and health facilities across Germany and/or use our in-house gym with EGYM products
Mobility: Enjoy a monthly travel subsidy of 45€ for public transport
Discounts: Get a variety of great discounted offers, from fashion to leisure, through our employee benefits portal
Bike Leasing: Stay active and use our leasing bike offer on your way to work or in your spare time
Subsidized Pension: Profit from our employer-subsidized pension

Contact Information

Upload your documents (CV, salary expectations and earliest possible start date) and specify the job ID #1715.

Contact: Marina Lambrecht

For further information: https://career.egym.com

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About us

Become part of EGYM!

EGYM is a global fitness technology leader, providing fitness and health facilities with intelligent workout solutions. EGYM makes exercising smarter and more efficient with its comprehensive suite of connected gym equipment and digital products that integrate seamlessly with 3rd-party-hard- and software. The result is a fully connected training experience that drives measurable business and health outcomes on and off the training floor.

EGYM also offers subscription-based corporate fitness- and wellness solutions built on a combination of gym-access and EGYM fitness programs that directly target costly chronic conditions and boost employee health, leading to higher productivity and well-being.

EGYM's global headquarters are in Munich, Germany, with North American offices in Denver, Colorado.

EGYM is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age or any other aspect of an individual's identity.

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Thank you for your interest in EGYM. To complete your application, please fill in the following short form and upload your documents. Should there be any difficulties, please send us an e-mail to jobs@egym.com.

We look forward to getting to know you!