Lead the design vision and strategy across all Voice products, ensuring coherence and quality. Mentor designers and influence how design operates at DeepL as Voice becomes a core pillar of the company.
Responsibilities
- Lead Design Across the Voice Portfolio
- Own the end-to-end design vision for all Voice products (Meetings, Conversations, API surfaces where applicable)
- Ensure coherence, quality, and consistency across experiences while allowing products to evolve independently
- Translate product and business strategy into a clear, compelling experience vision
- Shape Product Strategy Through Design
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Research to influence roadmap and prioritisation
- Use design as a strategic toolânot just executionâto frame problems, explore solutions, and guide decision-making
- Balance short-term delivery with long-term experience architecture
- Be Deeply Hands-On
- Lead by example through hands-on design work on the most complex, high-impact problems
- Design for real-time, multi-speaker, multi-device scenarios with a strong sense of UX clarity and flow
- Ensure high craft across interaction design, information architecture, and experience quality
- Mentor and Multiply
- Mentor and coach other designers across the Voice team
- Raise the bar for design critique, feedback, and design thinking
- Help the team grow in confidence, autonomy, and impact
- Influence Design Culture at DeepL
- Contribute to evolving DeepLâs overall design standards, principles, and ways of working
- Advocate for design-led product development across disciplines
- Help establish Voice as a benchmark for design excellence within the company
Requirements
- Design Leadership Experience
- Extensive experience as a senior or staff-level product designer in B2B and/or complex consumer products
- Proven ownership of large, multi-surface product areas or portfolios
- Experience influencing product strategy through design, not just executing briefs
- Craft & Systems Thinking
- Exceptional interaction design and UX judgment
- Strong ability to design systems, not just individual screens
- Experience designing for complex workflows, real-time or collaborative environments is a strong plus
- Collaboration & Influence
- Comfortable working with senior product, engineering, and research leaders
- Ability to articulate design decisions clearly and persuasively
- Trusted partner who elevates cross-functional thinking
- Mindset
- A founder-like mentality: ownership, curiosity, and bias toward action
- Comfortable with ambiguity and shaping direction where none exists yet
- Passion for mentoring and growing others without formal authority
Key Skills
- Design Leadership Experience
- Craft & Systems Thinking
- Collaboration & Influence
- Mindset
Benefits
- Diverse and internationally distributed team
- Open communication, regular feedback
- Hybrid work, flexible hours
- Virtual Shares - An ownership mindset in every role
- Regular in-person team events
- Monthly full-day hacking sessions
- 30 days of annual leave
- Competitive benefits
About Deepl
DeepL is a global communications platform powered by Language AI. Since 2017, weâve been on a mission to break down language barriers. Our human-sounding translations and intelligent writing suggestions are designed with enterprise security in mind. Today, they enable over 200,000 businesses to transform communications, reach new markets, and improve productivity. And, empower millions of individuals around the world to make sense of the world and express their ideas. Join us in exploring the possibilities of Language AI!
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