Lead Product Designer

The position

Job description

Who are we? 📌

Koala Interactive is a fast-growing, human-sized company, in charge of Wyylde, the social network that allows exploring the diversity of sexual practices, in a secure environment. Leader in France since 2016, Wyylde has over 7 million registered users and 700,000 visits per day. After the successful acquisition of NSF (Nuit Sans Folie) in 2020, and our expansion into Italy, Spain, and Germany, we are looking to strengthen our team with passionate talents to continue our international adventure.

Our values: Freedom, Respect, Responsibility. They are not just words, but the foundation of our company culture.

At Koala Interactive, you will have the opportunity to work in an environment that values your creativity and autonomy, while respecting your work-life balance thanks to remote work.

Role 🎯

As Lead Product Designer, you will be responsible for the user experience across the entire Wyylde product.

You will lead the design team and ensure the quality, consistency, and value of the delivered journeys to transform the product vision into concrete, fluid, and impactful experiences.

Missions and Responsibilities ✅

Operational:

• Actively participate in defining the UX/UI product strategy
• Drive continuous improvement of user journeys, based on data analysis, user feedback, and exploratory tests
• Collect, cross-reference, and analyze user insights (interviews, tests, analytics, support) to formulate optimization hypotheses
• Design clear, engaging, and accessible journeys, from user research to final prototyping, on both desktop and mobile
• Produce mock-ups and prototypes in Figma with a high level of detail and a component/design system vision
• Work daily with Product Owners, developers, Product Designers, and QA to ensure the quality of UX/UI implementation

Management:

• Supervise Product Designers: guide their skill development, challenge their choices, and ensure the overall consistency of design work
• Establish a design culture focused on impact, rigor, empathy, and methodological discipline
• Organize team design rituals (mock-up reviews, inspiration sharing, UI/UX watch, cross-feedback)
• Represent the voice of design to internal stakeholders, and defend UX decisions with pedagogy and impact
• Participate in the recruitment, onboarding of new design profiles, and their evolution

Skills ⭐

Hard Skills

• Minimum 7 years of experience in Product Design, including initial experience in coordination or leadership.
• Proficiency in Figma (design system, prototyping, auto-layout, variants).
• Excellent knowledge of UX standards (accessibility, heuristics, mobile-first)
• Knowledge of user research methodologies (quantitative and qualitative)
• Practice of moderated and unmoderated user tests

Soft Skills

• Assertive and inspiring leadership
• Strong sense of active listening, benevolent leadership
• Strategic sense and ability to connect design and business
• Synthesis skills, rigor, structuring
• Excellent cross-functional communication
• Team spirit and feedback culture

Details 💼

Benefits:

• Remote work: Flexible remote organization (residing in IDF) / Flex Office in Levallois Perret.
• Friendly events: Aperitifs, escape games, karaokes, indoor soccer, gaming, and much more.
• Motivating compensation: Annual bonus based on objectives (10%).
• Employee savings: CET, PEE, PERCO for your future projects.
• Competitive social benefits: SWILE Restaurant card, ALAN mutual insurance, external CE.

Recruitment process:

• HR phone pre-qualification
• Technical interview with our CPO
• Technical and managerial test
• Presentation of the test to the CPO

In line with a policy promoting the integration of people with disabilities, the proposed position is open to all.

For more information about our work environment: Koala Interactive | Welcome to the Jungle.