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Staff Product Designer (f/m/d)

Hive • Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪

Onsite Full-time Lead

As a Staff Product Designer, you will tackle complex design challenges and drive design direction for strategic initiatives. You will partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership while contributing hands-on within a squad.

Responsibilities

  • Tackle highly complex, large-scale design challenges, simplifying interconnected experiences across a key product area.
  • Drive design direction end-to-end for strategic initiatives — from early concepts to polished, scalable solutions that set the standard for others.
  • Partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership to shape group-level vision and strategy, while contributing hands-on within a squad.
  • Apply systems thinking to create coherent, scalable experiences across teams, evolving our design system and patterns where needed.
  • Leverage research and insights (qualitative and quantitative) to shape product direction, influence roadmaps, and uncover opportunities beyond your immediate scope.
  • Identify and lead strategic opportunities to improve the product, balancing quick learning with long-term impact.
  • Raise the bar for design quality and consistency, ensuring a cohesive experience across the product ecosystem.
  • Act as a design leader within the group — modelling strong craft, mentoring other designers, and fostering an inclusive, collaborative design culture.

Requirements

  • Operated at a Staff or equivalent level, leading complex initiatives and driving significant product impact.
  • Portfolio showcasing systems thinking and breadth in product, interaction, and visual design.
  • Experience in leading design work end-to-end, from shaping early concepts to iterating polished, scalable solutions.
  • Track record of influencing product strategy and vision in close partnership with Product and Engineering leadership.
  • Provided direct mentorship to other designers, helping elevate mid-senior peers in their craft and approach.
  • Balanced intuition with research, using qualitative and quantitative insights to inform decisions and push work forward.
  • Deeply fluent in Figma and design systems, knowing when to evolve or introduce new patterns to scale quality across products.
  • Solid prototyping skills, using it to explore, communicate, and refine ideas with speed and clarity.

Key Skills

  • Systems thinking and breadth in product, interaction, and visual design.
  • Leading design work end-to-end.
  • Influencing product strategy and vision.
  • Direct mentorship to other designers.
  • Balancing intuition with research.
  • Fluency in Figma and design systems.
  • Prototyping skills.

Benefits

  • Revolutionizing e-commerce operations.
  • Empowering brands to excel in the digital commerce era through an innovative operations platform.
  • Diversity and inclusion are core to their success, actively cultivating an environment where every team member can thrive.

About Hive

Hive is the international end-to-end operations platform that powers your D2C and B2B growth — from the supplier’s factory to your customer’s doorstep and beyond.

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