--- title: 'Head of Product Design at Malt' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-product-design-malt-paris-yfszgtjaam08' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Head of Product Design at Malt - **Company:** Malt - **Location:** Paris, France - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-26 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/malt/910560d4-80ce-41c7-9a5b-b3e714ce0f78 ## Job description 🪐 Discover our galaxy Join the Future of Work ! Malt is Europe's leading freelance marketplace, connecting over 1,000,000 talented freelancers with 100,000+ companies. Founded in 2013, we're transforming how work gets done through our tech-powered, human-centered platform. What makes us different: - A diverse team of 600 Malters across 6 European countries - A culture that champions equality (50% of our Comex are women) and inclusive growth - Backed by top investors including ISAI, Serena Capital, Eurazeo Growth, Goldman Sachs, and BPI - A mission to give everyone the freedom to work differently Ready to help shape the future of work? Your next chapter starts here! 🪐 Explore your future career  🔭 As the Head of Product Design at Malt, you will lead a high-impact segment of our design organization, acting as a strategic partner in shaping how freelancers and clients connect, transact, and collaborate globally. Your mission is to elevate Malt’s core product experience by connecting exceptional user experiences directly to commercial growth. Under your leadership, your initiatives will drive demonstrable lifts in core user health metrics, conversion funnels, and key commercial KPIs. You will ensure the product design function is staffed with top talent, fostering a culture of strong psychological safety and maintaining a high craft quality bar. Reporting to Stefanie Fleisch (VP of Design), you will take a holistic view of our primary product domains. Your goal is to break down feature silos across multi-squad streams, delivering cohesive user journeys that are intuitive, clean, and built to scale. ## Key Responsabilities ✨ - People Leadership: Proactively develop strategies to accelerate team growth and independently manage your team’s performance. Foster an environment of open feedback and run an effective meeting cadence. - Experience Strategy & Roadmap: Define the overarching experience strategy and directly influence multi-team roadmaps, connecting the user experience to commercial growth. - Craft Direction & Vision: Set the aesthetic vision and interaction bar for your product area, translating brand strategy into specific design principles and facilitating high-standard critiques. - User Discovery & Research: Instill consistent, data-informed discovery habits across your teams. Initiate and drive strategic initiatives for the systematic collection of quantitative and qualitative user data. - Velocity & Execution: Optimize our design-to-delivery lifecycle. Help teams navigate the balance between shipping fast MVPs and investing time into polished, highly refined user flows. - Cross-Functional Alignment: Maintain a close partnership with product and tech leadership peers to influence product strategy and secure tech investment for a best-in-class user experience that unlocks commercial growth. - System-level Thinking: Partner with the Experience Systems & AI team to drive AI workflow automation and directly contribute to the core principles and architectural requirements informing the design system strategy. - AI Workflow Transformation: Evaluate, pilot, and establish operational standards and tooling for AI-assisted design across multiple teams to accelerate discovery, generation, and delivery cycles. ## About you 🧑‍🚀 - Management Track Record: You have a proven history of directly managing and developing design talent within fast-paced product organizations. - Strategic Alignment: You treat design as a core business lever. You understand product metrics, conversion funnels, and marketplace dynamics. - AI User Experience: Hands-on experience tackling unique UX patterns for generative AI, such as designing for non-deterministic model outputs, prompt-guiding interfaces, or trust and transparency in AI-driven automation. - Interaction & UX Foundations: You excel at handling platform complexity across multiple domains. You know how to translate dense data states, complex workflows, and multi-sided user funnels into simple, predictable interfaces. - Data & Insights Driven: You value evidence over bias, routinely leveraging user research and product analytics to validate your team’s design choices. - B2B / Marketplace Experience: A solid background or preferred experience in B2B platforms or multi-sided digital marketplaces. - Language: Fluency in English is required. How to join the mission? 🚀 - First Call with Olivier, our Talent Acquisition Manager, to better understand your background, aspirations and answer any questions you may have. (45 minutes) - Manager Interview with your future manager [Stefanie Fleisch](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefaniefleisch/) (VP of Design) to delve into your experience and the specifics of the role. (60 minutes) - Case Study preparation and presentation with your future manager and members of the Design and Tech Team (60 minutes) - Final Interview with the CPO, [Sebastien Bardin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastienbardin/), to discuss Malt’s long-term vision in terms of AI experience workflows at Malt (30 min) + Coffee with the team (30 min) ## About Malt ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Malt is a European freelance marketplace that connects businesses with vetted freelancers and provides integrated administrative, legal, and payment tools. - **Entity Type**: Private (scale-up; ~$195.3M total funding across 5 rounds) - **Headquarters**: Paris, France - **Founded**: 2013 - **Founders**: Vincent Huguet and Hugo Lassiège ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Technology, Information and Internet; freelance/independent talent marketplace - **Target customers**: B2B — from SMBs to enterprise companies; also serves independent freelancers and consultants - **Mission**: "Create a world where everyone is free to choose the best people to work with." Malt aims to redefine the world of work by giving people the freedom to choose what work they do and who they do it with. ## Products & Services - **Malt Marketplace**: The core platform connecting freelancers with companies. It covers a wide range of categories including tech, design, marketing, consulting, and more, with tools for project matching, collaboration, and secure payments. - **Malt Strategy**: A dedicated category for independent management consultants and interim executives, launched after Malt acquired Comatch in 2022. Clients can access vetted senior expertise. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$195.3M** across 5 rounds; reported annual revenue of **$441.5M**; over **1 million freelancers** and **90,000+ clients** per LinkedIn data - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Specific investor names were not detailed in the provided sources. Notable strategic move: acquisition of **Comatch** in 2022 to enter the management consulting/interim executive category. - **Growth Signals**: - Active in 9 countries/regions: Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the Nordics, Spain, Switzerland, the UAE, and the UK - 100% revenue growth reported for 2021 vs. 2022 - Workforce of ~1,079 people, up 6.8% YoY - Growing freelancer community: from 700,000+ to 1 million+ depending on source timeframe ## Competitive Advantages - **Strong network effects**: A large and growing two-sided marketplace (freelancers + companies) makes each side more valuable to the other. - **European scale**: Deep multi-country presence gives Malt a regional advantage over local or fragmented competitors. - **Integrated admin, legal, and payment processes**: Malt simplifies compliance and payments for freelancers and companies, reducing friction in independent work arrangements. - **Trust and vetted talent**: Particularly in senior consulting categories through Malt Strategy, supported by the Comatch acquisition. ## Strategic Focus - Expanding across Europe and the Middle East (UAE presence) - Growing enterprise and global account business, evidenced by recent hires for Enterprise and Key Account roles - Investing in AI and automation to improve matching and internal efficiency - Building a more complete platform for freelancers and companies, including financial, legal, and project management support - Maintaining a strong, inclusive, and scalable company culture as headcount grows ## Why Work Here - **Culture & diversity**: Malt emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion. Women make up 51.2% of the workforce and 40.9% of leadership; employees represent 31+ nationalities. The company scored 85/100 on France’s 2025 Gender Equality Index. - **Work model**: Flexible remote/hybrid policy — split time between the office and home. Onboarding in Paris for new hires. - **Perks**: Competitive benefits include equity for all employees, free books for learning, a one-month fully paid sabbatical every three years, sports sponsorship, and additional vacation days depending on country. - **Hiring process**: Average process lasts ~28 working days; offers follow within 48 hours. English is required as Malt works mostly in English across Europe. - **Growth environment**: Hybrid team across six countries to work from, with a rapid scale-up environment focused on autonomy, smart risks, and continuous improvement. ## Sources 1. [careers.malt.com](https://careers.malt.com/) 2. [malt.com](https://www.malt.com/c/about-us) 3. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/malt) 4. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/maltcommunity) 5. 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