Senior Product Designer (all genders) at Tonies in London, England, United Kingdom

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Are you passionate about inspiring parents to provide screen-free (and guilt-free) edutainment to children? If so, read on! We are looking for a Senior Product Designer (all genders) to shape the connected experience in the mytonies app for ios & android. Specifically you will help families setup the Toniebox, configure for best utility, manage their collection and customize their listening experience by generating their own playlists and content. You will be responsible for designing experiences that allow parents to configure Tonieboxes, developing and executing strategies to increase value through play and drive our north star metric. This role requires a deep understanding of user behavior, strong analytical skills, and a proven track record of driving successful engagement initiatives.

In this role you will be ultimately responsible for the overall usability & design of a product in a customer-facing product team. You will need to find a balance between our user's needs, business goals and technology constraints. You will drive it both with the central team with whom you will directly cooperate, as well as by advocating for stakeholders and users' needs from the regional teams.

Your tasks and responsibilities will include:

Design Strategy: Shape the UX strategy aligned with product strategy and business objectives by defining Information Architecture, hierarchy, and messaging for your product area, while closely collaborating with User Researcher and Data Analyst on complex research topics.
Interaction Design: Develop high-complexity concepts and manage product-level projects with a mobile-first approach, leading Universal Design efforts by emphasizing Accessibility, Inclusion, and design excellence.
Visual Design: Use the design system to translate concepts into designs for validation and development, and contribute to the evolution and maintenance of the design system.
Customer Insights: Represent the customer's voice in usability, UX, technology, and data security decisions, using data analysis, testing feedback, and UX metrics to validate concepts and inform decisions.
Influencing Outcomes: Define Key Results (KRs) and drive tactics using design expertise, shape experiments with your team, interpret results to guide design decisions, and collaborate seamlessly with Product and Engineering counterparts, ensuring alignment with Designers and Researchers.

What we are looking for:

You are passionate about building digital and connected products as a mobile-first Product Designer or UX Designer, with at least 5 years of experience in UX, UI, and User Research for high traffic products (~1Mn MAU).
Proven track record in product design, delivering impactful solutions that meet user needs and business goals, with a customer-centric approach and experience in running qualitative user research independently and with dedicated product researchers.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, effectively partnering with cross-functional teams, and a strategic thinker who can translate product strategy into actionable design strategies.
Expertise in interaction design, capable of conceptualizing and executing high-complexity mobile concepts, and passionate about Universal Design principles, promoting Accessibility, Inclusion, and design excellence.
Proficient in visual design, experienced in contributing to design systems.
Nice to have: Strong experience with IoT/Consumer electronics products and/or digital products for children.

Why tonies?

Global Teamwork: We collaborate across departmental and country borders on our vision to bring the Toniebox into every child's room in the world.
Come as you are: This applies not only to the dress code but also to everything else. Because only where you truly feel comfortable can you give your best.
Mobility: Choose the option that suits you best - a Deutschlandticket (public transport ticket) for unlimited mobility, a monthly contribution for an office parking space, a leasing bicycle, or a remote work subsidy.
Enhanced Security: Benefit from subsidies for company pension plans, occupational pension schemes, and occupational disability insurance.
Rest & Time Off: Enjoy 30 days of paid annual leave as well as three additional days off such as Rosenmontag, Christmas Eve, and New Year's Eve. After one year of employment, you can also use up to 10 "toniecation days" (unpaid leave days).
Flexible Working: Equipped with individual equipment, you can work remotely for up to 5 days in consultation with your team - depending on your area of responsibility. And if you're up for a workation, you can work from abroad for up to 4 weeks per year with us.
Continuous Learning: Benefit from our internal and external training opportunities as well as an individual learning budget to continuously expand your knowledge.
Language Learning & Relaxation: Improve your communication skills with the language learning app Babbel and find relaxation through our access to the meditation app Calm.
Discounts: Benefit from attractive discounts on our entire range of tonies products.

Good to know:

As part of our principles, we are committed to supporting inclusion and diversity at tonies®. We actively celebrate our colleagues’ different abilities, ethnicities, faith and gender. Everyone is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Sabine Schykowski
Recruiting & Onboarding Partner

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tonies® is the world’s largest interactive audio platform for children with more than 7.3 million Tonieboxes and 90 million Tonies sold. The intuitive and award-winning audio system has changed the way young children play and learn independently with its child-safe, wireless, and screen-free approach. Tonieboxes have been activated in over 100 countries, the content portfolio includes more than 1,100 Tonies figurines in several languages.

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tonies® is the world’s largest interactive audio platform for children with more than 6.8 million Tonieboxes and 82 million Tonies sold.

The intuitive and award-winning audio system has changed the way young children play and learn independently with its child-safe, wireless, and screen-free approach.

Tonieboxes have been activated in over 100 countries, the content portfolio includes more than 1,100 Tonies figurines in several languages.

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