Head of Design
Job description
MailerLite is one of the fastest-growing email marketing services. We help more than 1 million businesses around the world to keep in touch with their customers. Today, we are a team of more than 170 dreamers, adventurers, and world travelers passionate about what we do and believe in. And we are ready for another talented person to join the party.
We are looking for an experienced product designer with a proven track record of working on SaaS web apps or B2C products and who is passionate about delivering exceptional design quality. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to shape our design strategy and elevate our craft, ensuring MailerLite sets a new standard for simplicity, cohesion, and user experience.
As a senior leader in the design team, you’ll work with another senior product designer to establish a strong design foundation and foster a culture of excellence. You’ll play a key role in mentoring and empowering team members, ensuring product design becomes a strategic differentiator for MailerLite. Together, you’ll create processes and practices that not only raise the bar for design but also support a healthy, collaborative, and sustainable working environment.
You’ll partner with the CPO, product managers, and other stakeholders to influence strategy and roadmap decisions, ensuring the design perspective is represented at every stage. This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact by building a high-performing design team and delivering products that delight users and drive business success. 🚀
Why MailerLite?
Wondering why we think you’ll love working for MailerLite? Here are our favorite 6 reasons!
Simplicity is one of our deepest values, and the design team has a mission of the utmost importance: making sure we stay true to ourselves while serving both our users and company goals.
As part of a team that's always looking for new, innovative ways to offer value for our customers, you'll constantly be experimenting, learning, and trying out new things.
We expect you to take full responsibility and ownership of your tasks. Team leads avoid micromanaging and minimize interruptions so you can stay focused on your assignments.
Whenever you’re stuck, your teammates with a wide range of different expertise are ready to help you grow. And they’d love for you to share your knowledge too!
We embrace the remote culture. Every day you get to choose what environment makes you most productive.
We value a stable workplace! MailerLite has been thriving for over 10 years and our year-over-year growth continues to increase.
What you will work on
Conduct user experience research using qualitative and quantitative approaches
Work closely with stakeholders to proactively identify UX challenges and opportunities through a deep understanding of the product vision and requirements
Understand complex product workflows, distilling them into intuitive user flows, consistent component behaviors, and a unified style
Manage both the big-picture vision and the day-to-day challenges of building a complex user-facing product
Foster a supportive environment within your close team
Actively contribute to the multi-brand Design System project we’re establishing as a cross-team effort, led by the Design team
Collaborate with stakeholders to identify areas of synergy between our three products, MailerLite, MailerSend and MailerCheck, ensuring a unified and seamless user experience
What we expect from you
5+ years of proven experience in a management position within a design team
Proven ability to navigate complex user flows and projects, ideally in a data-heavy industry such as fintech, e-commerce or data analytics SaaS
Expertise in design tools (e.g., Figma), front-end technologies, and UX research methods, with the ability to mentor team members in these areas
Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and translate it into Design goals and values
Ability to structure the design process and help organize a whole team’s work
Positive attitude and deep empathy towards end users and team members
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a knack for rallying teams around a design vision
Outstanding attention to detail (if you apply, include the word lite somewhere in your application)
Located in the EMEA region
Bonus skills
Some experience working on multiple platforms such as mobile apps and 3rd party integrations
Experience developing and maintaining a Design System
Some knowledge of HTML/CSS
What we offer
Yearly gross salary range: $72,000-$82,000
Remote-first culture with the team working remotely from all over the world
International health insurance provided with coverage in most countries. Monthly health care payout available in select countries where coverage is limited
Company-paid retreats. Once per year we gather for a week in an exotic location to work, learn and have fun together
31 days of vacation per year. We encourage you to unplug and recharge!
12 paid sick days for your physical and mental well-being, no doctor's note required. Parents can use them to care for their sick children
4 creative days. One paid day off per quarter to do something creative and fun
12 parental days per year. Enjoy one paid day off each month to treasure time with your children
Parental leave. Enjoy paid bonding time at 100% of your salary when welcoming a new child into your family through birth or adoption - 3 months for primary caregivers and 1 month for secondary caregivers
Parenting budget of $1000. Celebrate the arrival of your little one, whether through childbirth or adoption, with a special gift from us
Joy Budget. Annual budget to spend on whatever that brings you joy
MacBook and other tools that'll help you to do your job efficiently
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Team Achievements
We're incredibly proud of our team and love celebrating their accomplishments. At MailerLite, we believe in recognizing hard work, creativity, and collaboration.
Here, we share some of the standout achievements that highlight the passion and talent within our team.
Innovative Development
Successfully launched a new, feature-rich, drag-and-drop builder for creating professional landing pages.
Rooted in research
Our team leveraged user research and prototyping to design effective onboarding flows for new users, demonstrating our commitment to user-centered design and seamless experiences.
Meet your Team Lead
Agathe
I’m Agathe, Interim Chief Product Officer at MailerLite, where I've dedicated four enriching years. My passions extend from long walks in nature to eco-conscious living and vibrant techno festivals. Above all, I cherish direct, honest communication, efficiency and data-driven insights. Within our team, we embody simplicity and lead by example. What makes my heart sing is the profound autonomy we're granted, enabling each of us to shine as our best selves. At MailerLite, I #lovemyjob.
We focus on people
Our company is built on core values that shape our supportive culture. We strive to create a welcoming, valued workspace that fosters freedom, creativity and mutual respect.
Interested?
Don't send us a CV. We like to do things differently. We're excited to see the newsletter you come up with.