Head of Product Design

Location: Paris, France; hybrid policy with remote work allowed two days per week

Company

hirify.global is a digital reading service providing personalized access to newspapers and magazines, with over 2 million users across 15 geographies through hirify.global, Readly, Milibris, Kidjo, and Mangas.io.

What you will do

• Manage and develop 2 Product Designers through goal-setting, feedback, coaching, and career growth support.
• Lead discovery by defining problem statements, forming hypotheses, creating prototypes, and testing them with users.
• Shape platform-agnostic, brand-compliant, and technically feasible designs and ensure precise handoff to engineers.
• Deliver and review high-fidelity designs, complex user flows, and interactive prototypes across iOS, Android, and Web.
• Contribute to and evolve the global Design System across multiple brands and platforms.
• Improve design rituals, tools, processes, and AI-enabled workflows for research synthesis, ideation, prototyping, and QA.

Requirements

• 8+ years of Product Design experience, ideally in high-growth B2C environments serving millions of users through mobile apps, including at least one experience managing or leading a Product Design team.
• Direct people-management experience, including setting goals, giving feedback, and supporting designers’ development.
• Strong command of the double-diamond process, ambiguity navigation, brainstorming facilitation, insight synthesis, prototyping, and coaching others.
• Advanced Figma skills for building scalable components and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Understanding of mobile development constraints and production-ready design systems.
• Curiosity about and comfort with AI tools for design, with readiness to introduce them into team workflows.
• Ability to turn complex features into clear narratives and discuss conversion funnels, A/B test results, and technical-debt trade-offs with PMs and Data Analysts.
• Autonomy in identifying user-journey friction and proposing solutions, plus strong communication and feedback skills.
• Fluent French and English, with the ability to present complex design rationales to international stakeholders in both languages.

Culture & Benefits

• Meal vouchers through Swile, Sidecare health insurance, and a mobility package for transport subscriptions.
• Wellpass access to fitness and wellness activities.
• Access to the teale mental-health platform.
• Hybrid work with remote work permitted two days per week.
• VIP access to hirify.global content and four office meet-ups per year with international offices.
• Inclusive culture focused on talent, diversity, and continuous improvement.

Hiring process

• HR interview, hiring-manager interview, case study presentation, Brand & Design interview, peer interview, and final interview with the CPSO.