Principal Product Designer Sustainability, Diversity & Inclusion (all genders)

at  Zalando

ABOUT THE ROLE AND THE TEAM

The Sustainability, Diversity and Inclusion team within Design, Marketing, Content is a customer- centric team with two missions: bringing Sustainability and D&I to the customer experience at Zalando. The team is complemented by similar central and brands-facing Sustainability, D&I teams.
As a Principal Product Designer in the Sustainability and D&I team you will be responsible for customer-facing digital experiences across Zalando. Your joint mission is to empower our ~50 million customers to live their environmental and social values while expressing themselves through fashion.
Using your excellent craft, you will design innovative experiences that empower customers to make sustainability choices and that support brands to further sustainability. The experiences you craft will intentionally consider customers living with disabilities.
Inclusive by design
At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with our hiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit. We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support you throughout the hiring process.
do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy
Our employee resource groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/our-employee-resource-groups

WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• You will solve complex problems, sometimes in uncharted spaces. Your solutions are inspiring to customers, brand partners and colleagues. You raise the bar for the quality of solution designs in the areas you work in.
• You will bring big-picture thinking to life through collaboration, craft and proactive mindset. By exploring innovative solution spaces with an iterative mindset, you’ll make the future tangible to provide direction and fuel the vision for customers and brand partners.
• You will get the chance to work closely with product designers, product managers, and engineers to bring to life comprehensive customer journeys that set standards for other designers.
• You will define, design and oversee deliverables, ensuring cross-functional product teams have everything they need to build the innovative solutions you envision.
• You will drive customer insights for projects, navigating through both defined and ambiguous challenges. You’ll devise research strategies, determine relevant data collection methods, and evaluate the significance of the problems at hand.
• As a customer-focused design thought leader and role model, you will contribute to the Zalando Product Design community and the larger European design industry by sharing best practices, mentoring and teaching colleagues, crafting best-in-class solutions, bar-raising in design reviews, and sparking inspiring conversations.