Lead Product Designer

Lead Product Designer at Just Eat Takeaway.com

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online food delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.

Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role:

We are looking for an exceptional Lead Designer, to lead an area of our Ventures design team – one of JET’s newest and most ambitious and innovative design teams – to join us in looking after the apps and websites of our customers and partners end to end journeys, spanning from food delivery, grocery and new verticals, loyalty programs, innovation and retail media integrations globally.

What do loyalty programs, in-car food ordering, AI, and next-gen advertising all have in common? They’re just a few of the ambitious innovations being explored by the Ventures team at Just Eat Takeaway.com. Think of the Ventures team as the special ops of product development - relentlessly efficient, highly collaborative, and laser-focused on what’s next. We turn big ideas into real-world impact across our global business.

We want to set new industry standards and drive innovation in our company. Our vision is to build products that are not only the highest-performing, innovative and most intuitive but also truly delightful to use. If you're passionate about solving complex problems, driving innovation, and making a tangible difference on a global scale, we want you on our team.

Location: Hybrid- 3 days a week from our Amsterdam office & 2 days working from home

Reporting to: Head of Product Design - JET Ventures

These are some of the key ingredients to the role:

Vision & strategy:

• You’ll be comfortable creating tangible vision and strategy with the right mix of being business-led, inspiring, and challenging the status quo.
• Critically, you’ll be able to drive this forward with momentum and gain buy-in from senior stakeholders across the business.

Driving change & impact:

• Ensuring users are at the heart of roadmaps and product decisions to achieve the design strategy and leading conversations to ensure UX is part of every step of the process.
• Deliver product and commercial value through tangible outcomes that shape business roadmaps.

People & culture:

• You’ll be a manager who puts their people first, and prioritises their growth as much as your own.
• At the same time, you’ll be part of our Ventures leadership team, responsible for driving ways to improve our team's culture.

What will you bring to the table?

Aside from the basic skills that make an amazing lead - user-centricity, people-first, curious, data and research driven, to name a few - this is what we’re specifically looking for someone with:

• Proactivity and motivation to get things done, and deliver tangible outcomes.
• Big picture thinking, and a pragmatic approach to balancing user and business needs.
• Strong influencing skills to impact roadmaps, and help evolve ways of working.
• Confidence in challenging ways of thinking throughout different teams across the business to push bold ideas, and boundaries.
• An understanding of the difference between vision, strategy and objectives.
• Exceptional levels of craft - pushing creative excellence in the solutions both you and others deliver.
• Strong prioritisation skills, with a calm and adept outlook to navigating change.
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguous and complex problems.

At JET, this is on the menu:

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

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