Lead Product Designer (m/f/d) at Sport Alliance GmbH

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Your position in our team

As a Lead Product Designer, you will shape how design is executed and scaled across Sport Alliance’s product ecosystem. You’ll take ownership of complex, end-to-end initiatives — ensuring clarity of direction, reliable delivery, and a consistent, high-quality user experience across platforms. Your role goes beyond exceptional craft: you’ll lead by structure. You’ll strengthen our design system, align design with Product and Engineering, and mentor designers to work with confidence, precision, and impact. You’ll help define how design operates — making our processes faster, clearer, and more scalable as we grow. You’ll advocate for a data-informed design culture, using user insights and analytics to validate decisions, uncover opportunities, and continuously improve usability and performance.

What you’ll do

Lead design execution for complex features and projects, ensuring quality, consistency, and timely delivery across teams.

Partner closely with Product Managers and Engineers to align on scope, requirements, and trade-offs early, ensuring shared ownership of outcomes.

Make design decisions based on data and insights — combining analytics, usability testing, and user feedback to validate and refine solutions.

Drive the evolution of our Design System, defining structure, documentation, and governance in collaboration with designers and engineers.

Establish scalable design workflows — including QA standards, handoff procedures, and feedback rituals — that raise the quality bar across squads.

Mentor and support other designers, helping them grow in craft, process ownership, and data-informed thinking.

Promote collaboration and alignment by facilitating workshops, design reviews, and cross-functional discussions.

Integrate AI and emerging technologies into design workflows to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and system evolution.

Your profile

Proven experience leading product design at scale, ideally across multiple squads or product areas.

Hands-on mentality — able to translate complexity into clear, testable, and feasible solutions.

Data-informed decision-maker — experienced using analytics, usability testing, and user feedback to drive iteration.

Deep understanding of design systems and how to evolve them across teams and technologies.

Structured communicator and collaborator who builds trust with PMs, engineers, and designers alike.

Passion for design operations and process optimization — ensuring design work scales effectively.

Strong visual and interaction design skills with attention to detail and a systems-thinking mindset.

Skilled in Figma, prototyping, and design documentation; experience with component governance and versioning.

Fluency in English (spoken and written) is required — it’s our company language across all teams.

Bonus: hands-on experience using AI for rapid prototyping, interaction testing, and user validation.

At Sport Alliance, design is not just about interfaces — it’s about execution excellence and creating a shared language between business, users, and technology. As a Lead Product Designer, you’ll have the space and influence to shape how design operates across products and teams — ensuring every decision is data-informed, user-centered, and built for scale.

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Lead Product Designer (m/f/d) at Sport Alliance GmbH

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