UX Manager - Excellence and Strategy (f/d/m) - #2083616

mobile.de is Germany's largest vehicle marketplace with about 1.4 million listed cars, trucks, and motorcycles. Both private customers and more than 40,000 registered vehicle dealers use the platform. Including listing exports to the sister platform Kleinanzeigen, mobile.de reaches about 20 million unique users per month (AGMA digital facts; mobile.de and Kleinanzeigen; categories: cars, motorcycles, commercial vehicles, motorhomes; Ø month April 2022 to March 2023). As a "one-stop shop," mobile.de offers not only buying and selling services but also financing and leasing solutions, among others. The company, founded in 1996, is a subsidiary of Adevinta, a globally leading provider of online classifieds portals.

mobile.de is part of Adevinta: a global online classifieds specialist and sustainability leader with 25+ products in 10 countries.

What You’ll Do & Who You Are

We are looking for a Strategic UX Manager/Team lead (d/f/m) to join our team of 35+ designers, researchers, writers, and ops experts shaping the future of automotive e-commerce.

You will drive UX excellence at mobile.de, focusing on how UX operates—supporting strategic initiatives, fostering collaboration, and maximizing the impact of user research, design, and UX writing.

You will work closely with the Head of UX, UX managers, and senior product leadership to define and implement strategies, ways of working, and research activities that enhance team effectiveness and drive user-centered innovation.

You will report to the Head of UX, mobile.de. This is a hybrid role (1-2 office days/ week), and our office is based in Berlin Charlottenburg.

Responsibilities

• Improve UX Excellence and Innovation: Promote UX excellence and innovation by developing strategies to improve research, design ops, and UX writing processes.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead and develop a small team of senior user researchers, design ops specialists, and UX writers, promoting a collaborative environment.
• Operational Excellence: Own best practices for user research, design systems, and UX writing, ensuring efficiency and consistency across all UX operations.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Advocacy: Build strong relationships with leaders and individuals across the company, effectively communicate UX strategies, and champion user-centered design principles throughout the organization. Promote research topics across the company.
• Research Impact and Insight: Together with senior researchers, guide the way-forward for how we do research and how it is embedded in our strategy and product development processes. Oversee the roadmap for strategic research topics.
  
  

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in leading UX teams, ideally with experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams and driving large scale UX projects.
• Strong expertise in user research methodologies and practices within a product organization.
• Demonstrated understanding of design operations and systems.
• Exceptional at storytelling and bringing your message to a large organization
• Collaborative and motivated to work with different groups and teams
• Experience as a Head of UX in a smaller organization is highly desirable.
  
  

Benefits

Life at Adevinta comes with its perks! Our Adevintans enjoy the following benefits:

• An attractive Base Salary
• Participation in our Short-Term Incentive plan (annual bonus)
• Work From Anywhere: Enjoy up to 20 days a year of working from anywhere! Maybe not from the moonwell why not! just make sure you have internet connection!
• A 24/7 Employee Assistance Program for you and your family, because we care
• Win together, lose together is one of our key behaviours. At Adevinta you will find a collaborative environment with an opportunity to explore your potential and grow
  
  

On top of these, we also provide a range of locally relevant benefits. Wanna know more? Apply and ask our recruiters!

Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role but are interested, please consider applying anyway. Research suggests that women and individuals from underrepresented groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don’t meet 100% of the job requirements. We strongly encourage people from historically excluded groups to apply and look forward to speaking with you.