Sweep is hiring a Director of Product Design to lead and scale our design vision, making sustainability a cornerstone of business success.
Sweep is on a mission to empower businesses to become forever companies by creating economic value while reducing their environmental impact and improving their social contribution.
Our comprehensive data management platform enables organizations to track, disclose, and act on their ESG performance so that sustainability becomes not just a goal, but a competitive advantage. At Sweep, we believe in innovation, integrity, and the power of data to create a more sustainable future.
Ok, sounds promising. What will I be doing?
As Director of Product Design, you will translate company goals into a product design strategy that enables Sweep to create simple and impactful user experiences at scale.
You will lead the existing product design team, champion user-centred practices, and ensure that our product delivers both beauty and functionality to businesses embracing sustainability.
You’ll set the vision for design, ensure alignment across teams, and elevate the design function to drive customer delight, retention, and growth. You will act as a unifying force, balancing product requirements, user needs, and technical feasibility.
To be more specific, this includes:
1. Lead design strategy and execution 🌈
- Drive Sweep’s product design practice, ensuring a simple, consistent and delightful BtoB SaaS experience across our entire platform.
- Collaborate closely with Sweep’s leadership team to translate Sweep’s company goals into impactful SaaS solutions.
- Establish best practices to drive continuous improvements to the user experience and the ways we measure design’s impact towards Sweep’s success.
2. Drive a high-performing design team ⚡️
- Lead and develop a growing world-class design organization that’s focused on impact.
- Ensure the design team works seamlessly with product, engineering customer success and other stakeholders to deliver exceptional results.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, curiosity, and ownership. And provide clear direction, feedback, and professional growth opportunities for team members.
3. Build exceptional user experiences with impact 🌱
- Simplify complex data management challenges and sustainability standards into intuitive, actionable interfaces.
- Enforce user-centered design principles, using discovery methods like research, prototyping, and testing to ensure our user’s needs are always at the heart of every pixel.
- Grow Sweep’s design system to drive consistency and efficiency, and ensure that accessibility, usability, and scalability are foundational to all design efforts.
4. Elevate design internally and externally 🔍
- Be an advocate for design excellence and its role in driving Sweep’s mission and growth.
- Represent Sweep’s design vision externally, engaging with the broader design community.
- Foster a shared understanding of design’s impact across the organization.
That sounds just right for me. What do I need to bring?
Glad you asked. This is who we’re looking for:
Qualifications 🏆
- 8+ years of experience in product design, with 5+ years leading design teams.
- Proven experience delivering impactful designs in a B2B SaaS environment.
- A strong portfolio showcasing user-centered design solutions for complex business challenges.
- Deep expertise in design systems, interaction design, and information architecture.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and working in close partnership with product and engineering.
- Strong proficiency in modern design tools and prototyping workflows.
Qualities 🧠
- A true passion for nerdy, tricky software (design) problems
- A strategic leader who balances seeing the bigger picture and great execution.
- A champion of user-centered design practices and design thinking.
- A creative problem-solver who simplifies complexity through design.
- An empathetic, collaborative leader who inspires trust and alignment.
- A strong communicator with the ability to advocate for design internally and externally.
- A deep connection to our mission to drive business and environmental change.
Copy that. And what’s in it for me?
You will be joining an exciting young business that has the humble ambition to change the world. With a proven track record in starting companies, we’re planning to hit the ground running and have an impact fast. Joining this journey right at the beginning allows you to really help shape our path.
Our hybrid work model, with hiring focussed around our head offices in Paris, London and Montpellier, allows us to balance our personal and professional lives while staying connected and engaged with colleagues and clients.
We’re big believers in creating successful businesses that are good for everyone, including society and the planet. That’s why we have a B Corporation status.
We think this will be the ride of our lives. And maybe yours, too.
