Director of Design

Ovoko \ RRR.LT

Director of Design at Ovoko, responsible for building and leading design teams. Transforming Europe's used car parts market through design excellence and innovation.

Posted 7/1/2026full-timeVilnius • 🇱🇹 LithuaniaLead💰 €6,500 per monthWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage, coach, and grow product designers across the organization. You're accountable for their performance, their development, and the quality of what ships.
Partner with Product, Engineering, Business and Data leadership to define what great design means at Ovoko - then translate that into team-level priorities, craft standards, and a design system that makes the whole product feel coherent.
Review output, lead critiques, and are the person who notices when something isn't good enough and says so clearly.
Find genuinely interesting design work that reduces friction, builds trust between strangers, and connects every design decision to measurable outcomes.
Decide what the design organization looks like at our stage. Make real calls on roles, headcount, and reporting lines. Own it day to day and evolve it as we grow.
Define what excellence looks like at every stage - discovery, research, handoff, post-launch. Put the rituals and reviews in place to get there, without slowing the team down.
Set the team's point of view on how AI changes both the products we build and the way designers work.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience leading design teams. You've built, coached, and developed designers, created high-performing teams, and helped establish a strong design culture.
Stakeholder fluency. You can read business strategy deeply enough to build the design playbook top-down, and align Product Directors, Engineering leaders, and the exec team behind it.
Hands-on craft. Still close enough to the work to set the standard, lead design reviews, and know immediately when something isn't right.
Business mindset. You think in outcomes, metrics, and trade-offs - not features. Every design decision connects to something measurable.
Experience shaping a design organization. You've introduced standards, improved processes, and helped teams scale while keeping quality high.
Experience working on complex digital products. Marketplace, e-commerce, or SaaS experience would be a strong advantage, but we're equally interested in leaders who've tackled similarly complex product ecosystems.
A portfolio demonstrating strategic impact, complex problem solving, and the quality bar you've set for teams you've led.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Private health insurance
Employee stock option plan (ESOP)
Learning budget for your personal and professional growth
Commuting perks (covered parking or public transport to choose from)
Everyday snacks and drinks
Onsite gym
Top-notch hardware and software (MacOS or Windows to choose from)
The opportunity to work from anywhere up to 30 days per year
Employee referral program

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Hard Skills & Tools

Design StandardsDesign ReviewsComplex Problem SolvingDesign System DevelopmentMetrics and Outcomes Analysis

Soft Skills

CoachingCollaborationCommunicationCritical Thinking