Product Design Manager - Digital In-store domain

Digital Design Manager

We are looking for a Digital Design Manager (based in Lille or Paris) to lead the In-store Digital Design team.

300+ teammates in 40+ digital product team are dedicated to supporting Decathlon teammates and customers within our physical stores,. Our goal is to preserve and enhance the human bond, leveraging digital, data, and AI to empower store teams, ensuring excellence in efficiency and business operations, while managing and delivering an outstanding, tailored customer experience .

Reinventing the Art of Creation: Today, AI and emerging technologies provide us with an unprecedented lever for transformation. Our ambition? To reinvent our processes to transcend the art of creation, freeing our designers from technical constraints and propelling their creativity to new heights.

YOUR FUTURE CONTRIBUTION

As a Digital Design Manager, you are the guardian of this vision. Your responsibilities are structured around four major pillars:

1. Vision & Strategy

• Co-define and champion the experience vision adapted to each sub-perimeter.

• Influence the strategic roadmap in close collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Data tracks.

2. Management & Leadership

• Recruit, onboard, and support the career development of designers (both internal and external).

• Ensure team well-being and cultivate a work environment built on autonomy and accountability.

3. Excellence & Craft

• Oversee execution quality throughout the entire cycle: from Strategy and Discovery to Delivery and experience monitoring.

• Establish design rituals (design reviews, critiques) to elevate the level of craft.

• Promote the adoption of the Design System and experience principles, while driving performance through Design KPIs.

4. Collaboration & Influence

• Ensure smooth, cross-functional collaboration with all stakeholders (Business & product, Data, Engineering).

• Embody and promote a user-centric design culture within the organization and beyond.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Technological Boldness & Passion for Sport and customers: Naturally curious and tech-savvy, you are driven by solving complex problems. As a natural ambassador for our products, you are committed to fully immersing yourself in creative challenges to transform every hurdle into an innovation opportunity.

• Collaborative Leadership: With solid experience in Design Management (or equivalent), you excel at uniting diverse stakeholders, whether they come from digital or business backgrounds.

• A Team Spirit Dedicated to Excellence: Gifted with a sharp critical mind, you know how to challenge the status quo and convincingly defend the strategic value of Design, all while cultivating a collective and constructive approach: we move forward "as one."

WHAT WE OFFER

• Hybrid work model;

• Opportunity to work in one of the Decathlon Digital offices in Lille or Paris;

• Equipment provided in line with your missions and our societal commitments (Mac or Windows);

• A local project team within a global network (international career opportunities);

• Skill development and support (diverse projects, technical certifications in the first year, internal and external training, etc.);

• Compensation package (employee profit-sharing, monthly/quarterly bonuses).

DECATHLON DIGITAL 

Imaginez si la technologie nous permettait de repousser les frontières et d'offrir des expériences sportives inédites. C'est précisément notre ambition chez Decathlon Digital ! Nous sommes une équipe de plus de 5 000 experts en ingénierie logicielle, gestion de produits, données, cloud et cybersécurité, répartis à Paris, Lille et Amsterdam. Ensemble, nous créons la plus vaste plateforme sportive numérique, en exploitant les innovations technologiques pour optimiser la chaîne de valeur, concevoir des expériences connectées et donner une seconde vie à nos produits.

Changeons la donne pour de bon. Notre passion du sport nous guide et nous voulons qu’elle perdure. C’est pourquoi nous nous engageons à bâtir un modèle technologique plus durable, en réduisant notre impact direct sur l'environnement, et en créant un espace sûr et inclusif pour apprendre et nous épanouir ensemble. Rejoins l’équipe et façonnons le futur du sport.