About Staffbase
We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication with the first AI-native Employee Experience Platform. Our industry-leading and award-winning agentic AI communications channels - intranet, employee app and email solutions - create engaging experiences that connect and empower employees.
Headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany and New York City, with offices in Berlin, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Prague, and Minneapolis___St.___Paul, our diverse team of 750+ employees supports 2,000+ customers___reaching over 16.4 million employees___in transforming their employee experience. We are proud to be a Unicorn company___privately valued at over $1 billion___demonstrating strong growth, innovation, and lasting impact in our industry. Together, we’re shaping the future of workplace communication.
We’re hiring a Product Design Manager to lead the team building Content Designer___Staffbase’s creation tool that helps communicators generate, adapt, and refine content across channels. You’ll report to the VP of Product Experience and operate as a player-coach:
Coach: mentor, and develop a high-impact team of Product Designers.
Player: stay hands-on for the product to set the quality bar and accelerate delivery.
You’ll partner closely with a Group PM, Engineering Manager(s), and collaborators across Data, Research, and Customer teams to deliver an intuitive, trustworthy, and efficient creation experience.
What you’ll be doing
* Manage 6 Product Designers; set goals, run critique, and invest in craft and career growth
* Define the long-term UX strategy for Content Designer (creation ___ editing ___ review ___ publish), aligned with business outcomes and product vision
* Ensure Content Designer is built as an AI-native experience___where generative capabilities, human-in-the-loop review, and adaptive guidance are embedded into the core workflows rather than bolted on
* Take on high-leverage projects (e.g., new creation flows, evaluation UX, or cross-channel adaptation) to unblock and model standards
* Establish patterns for prompts, tone/voice controls, content structure, and accessibility; contribute to (and consume from) our design system
* Define success metrics (quality, time-to-first-draft, adoption, latency tolerance, trust signals) and use experiments to improve them
* Ensure Content Designer integrates seamlessly with planning, approvals, and publishing across Staffbase channels
* Bring insights from research and customer-facing teams into clear product decisions; communicate progress to stakeholders and leadership
What you need to be successful
* 6+ years in Product/UX Design with 3+ years leading designers on cross-functional teams
* Portfolio showing end-to-end product thinking and hands-on craft in complex tools or creation workflows
* Comfortable operating at two levels: hands-on in the details of design craft when needed, and strategic in shaping vision, systems, and team direction
* Strength in systems thinking (pattern libraries, information architecture, accessibility)
* Proven track record aligning design strategy with product and business outcomes
* Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
* Experience with evaluation frameworks for AI-assisted features (human-in-the-loop review, quality ratings, prompt patterns)
* Familiarity with governance & trust topics (auditability, transparency, error handling)
* Experience designing or AI-assisted experiences (e.g., editors, assistive suggestions, templating, or automation) is a huge plus
* Background working across multi-channel publishing products
* Empathy, curiosity, and a bias for action
What you'll get
* Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including LTIP (unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan)
* Flexibility - we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of €1560
* Growth Budget - all employees get a yearly budget for external training of €1000 and one day off for growth per year (increase to two days in 2nd year)
* Recharge - with 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August
* Wellbeing - Monthly Wellbeing Allowance €35, from fitness to mental health, hobbies to relaxation
* Support - we’re offering a company pension scheme
* Health - The offices are equipped with fruits, drinks and snacks and ergonomic workplaces
* Volunteers Day - you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project
* Employee Referral Program - one of your friends is a fit to one of our full-time openings? Refer them and get a referral bonus paid