OLX Group

Head of Product Design – Design Foundations

OLX Group

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Netherlands

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Lead Nexus as a strategic design platform
  • Define and evolve the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Nexus as shared UX infrastructure
  • Treat the design system as an internal product with clear users, priorities, and measurable outcomes
  • Balance consistency, flexibility, and scalability across multiple brands and product areas
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of designers focused on building and evolving Nexus
  • Set a high bar for design quality, systems thinking, and collaboration with engineering
  • Create clarity of roles, priorities, and ways of working within the team
  • Foster a strong culture of ownership, experimentation, and continuous improvement
  • Define ownership models, contribution workflows, and decision-making frameworks
  • Create predictable processes that enable distributed teams to contribute and adopt Nexus effectively
  • Build governance structures that scale without slowing teams down
  • Partner closely with engineering leadership to align on architecture, tooling, and delivery workflows
  • Ensure Nexus integrates seamlessly into development pipelines and supports engineering velocity
  • Advocate for platform thinking and shared infrastructure across design and engineering
  • Engage designers, engineers, and product teams as active participants in shaping Nexus
  • Build strong internal communities and contribution models
  • Drive adoption through clear value, usability, and collaboration rather than mandate
  • Enable faster development through reusable foundations, tokens, components, and patterns
  • Improve design quality and consistency without creating rigidity
  • Measure and demonstrate the impact of Nexus on speed, scalability, and user experience
  • Align senior stakeholders across design, engineering, and product leadership
  • Operate effectively in ambiguity, creating clarity and direction where needed
  • Champion platform thinking and elevate design as a strategic partner

Requirements

  • Proven experience building and scaling design platforms
  • Experience leading the creation and evolution of design systems or design platforms in complex organizations
  • Experience supporting multiple brands, products, or distributed teams
  • Strong governance mindset — ownership models, contribution flows, and decision frameworks
  • Deep collaboration with engineering teams on platform initiatives
  • Understanding of technical implementation (tokens, versioning, component architecture, release processes)
  • Ability to speak both design and engineering languages
  • Proven ability to align diverse stakeholders without formal authority
  • Experience driving adoption and organizational change at scale
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and defining structure where none exists
  • Balances consistency with flexibility
  • Optimizes for adoption and velocity rather than perfection
  • Understands trade-offs required to scale effectively
Benefits
  • Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits (including health insurance, bonus scheme, and more)
  • Learning & Development budget and structured growth support
  • Flexibility in how and where you work
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringstrategic thinkingcommunicationcollaborationadaptabilityownershipexperimentationcontinuous improvementstakeholder alignment