Staff Product Designer (f/m/d)

The position

At Hive, we're building the leading operations platform for independent commerce. We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to join us in shaping the future of merchant experiences.

As a Staff Product Designer, you’ll work closely with a cross-functional team and play a key part in setting strategy and direction for a merchant-facing group. You’ll also stay close to the work by embedding directly in one squad, contributing hands-on to a complex and high-visibility product area while helping ensure design quality and alignment across the group.

This is a role for a designer who enjoys moving between big-picture strategy and detailed product design — making the complex feel simple, and creating experiences that help independent merchants grow their businesses with ease.

What you’ll do:

• Tackle highly complex, large-scale design challenges, simplifying interconnected experiences across a key product area.
• Drive design direction end-to-end for strategic initiatives — from early concepts to polished, scalable solutions that set the standard for others.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership to shape group-level vision and strategy, while contributing hands-on within a squad.
• Apply systems thinking to create coherent, scalable experiences across teams, evolving our design system and patterns where needed.
• Leverage research and insights (qualitative and quantitative) to shape product direction, influence roadmaps, and uncover opportunities beyond your immediate scope.
• Identify and lead strategic opportunities to improve the product, balancing quick learning with long-term impact.
• Raise the bar for design quality and consistency, ensuring a cohesive experience across the product ecosystem.
• Act as a design leader within the group — modelling strong craft, mentoring other designers, and fostering an inclusive, collaborative design culture.

 

 

Profile:

• You’ve operated at a Staff or equivalent level — leading complex initiatives, shaping direction across multiple teams, and driving significant product impact. You may have been a Staff Designer, a Lead Designer, or a hands-on Design Manager looking to return to craft while remaining deeply strategic.
• Your portfolio showcases systems thinking and breadth — strong product, interaction, and visual design — demonstrating both craft excellence and impact at scale.
• You’re experienced in leading design work end-to-end, from shaping early concepts to iterating polished, scalable solutions.
• You have a track record of influencing product strategy and vision in close partnership with Product and Engineering leadership.
• You’ve provided direct mentorship to other designers, helping elevate mid–senior peers in their craft and approach.
• You balance intuition with research, using qualitative and quantitative insights to inform decisions and push work forward.
• You’re deeply fluent in Figma and design systems, knowing when to evolve or introduce new patterns to scale quality across products.
• You have solid prototyping skills and it’s a routine part of your workflow, using it to explore, communicate, and refine ideas with speed and clarity.

Bonus points

• You’re actively experimenting with AI tools — whether for generative ideation, prototyping or execution and exploring how they can extend your design practice.
• You bring other emerging practices, tools, or perspectives that help push the craft and the team forward.

Our offering

• Be part of the Hive.
  Become part of a high-performing team of exceptional people from McKinsey, Amazon, Shopify, Google, Blackstone, J.P. Morgan, DHL, and more. At Hive, we foster a culture of trust, collaboration, and constructive feedback—where people are empowered to grow and make a real impact.
• Make your mark.
  Shape the future of commerce operations in a fast-scaling company with a strong entrepreneurial mindset. You’ll work on exciting challenges from Day 1 and grow alongside Hive as we expand across Europe.
• Competitive compensation.
  We offer market-competitive salaries, including an equity incentive plan (EIP) for all full-time team members.
• Tools to thrive.
  You'll receive a MacBook and the tools that suit your working style best—whether that’s an extra monitor, headphones, or something else to boost your productivity.
• We support your well-being.
  Enjoy 30 vacation days per year, with an additional 20 days to take as paid sabbatical every 3 years at Hive.
• Office perks & flexibility.
  Flexible working hours, free drinks and snacks in our offices, and regular team events—including workations that bring the entire Hive team together.

About us

 

We're revolutionizing e-commerce operations.

At Hive, we empower brands to excel in the digital commerce era through our innovative operations platform. By combining cutting-edge technology with a curated network of top-tier operations partners, we deliver measurable results.

Our comprehensive platform streamlines the entire operational chain through a single, intuitive interface. Since our founding in 2020, we've rapidly grown to become one of Europe's leading operations platform, partnering with hundreds of innovative brands. With strategic locations in Berlin, Paris, Milan, Madrid, London, and Amsterdam. Backed by prestigious investors including Tiger Global, Earlybird, and Picus Capital, we're scaling our impact across Europe.

Diversity and inclusion are core to our success. We actively cultivate an environment where every team member, regardless of background, can thrive. We welcome talent from all walks of life, regardless of religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability. At Hive, authenticity and professional growth go hand in hand.