Miele

Director UX/UI Design (m/w/d)

Miele  •  Gütersloh, DE (Onsite)  •  25 days ago
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Job Description

Your Responsibilities

  • Working closely with Product Design and Smart Home, you shape the long-term direction for Miele’s digital products and connected services, translating user insights, emerging technologies and market trends into a seamless premium experience across physical and digital touchpoints
  • Across products and platforms, you establish a scalable UX architecture and Design System with consistent user flows, interaction patterns, navigation principles and UI standards
  • Through clear UX/UI guidelines, documentation and design processes, you create the framework for consistent quality, scalable solutions and efficient collaboration across teams and products
  • Across the portfolio, you steer UX/UI quality, priorities, resources and timelines while identifying risks and dependencies early and balancing user needs, technical feasibility and business requirements
  • As a leader, you develop our experienced UX/UI team through clear direction, regular feedback and coaching, while building a shared understanding of experience quality across disciplines

What we are looking for

  • You hold a degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, Communication Design, Media Informatics or a comparable discipline, complemented by extensive professional experience in a similar UX/UI or Experience Design role
  • Leadership experience in multidisciplinary Experience Design teams within a complex, international product environment enable you to provide direction and make sound decisions even when priorities compete
  • Your experience includes defining UX strategies, UX architectures and Design Systems across digital and physical touchpoints, with a clear focus on creating coherent premium experiences
  • Strategic thinking comes with a strong design vision and hands-on mindset, allowing you to turn complexity into clear decisions and bring together customer needs, brand ambition, technology and business goals
  • In international and senior stakeholder environments, you communicate with confidence, lead discussions effectively and bring the German and English language skills needed to collaborate across teams and functions
Miele

About Miele

Since being founded in 1899 Miele has followed its 'Immer Besser'​ brand promise.

As the world’s leading manufacturer of premium domestic appliances, we create delightful experiences – not only with regard to the quality of our products, but also in terms of performance, convenience, design and sustainability. For our customers, this means the peace of mind of knowing that choosing Miele is a good decision – and probably the decision of a lifetime.

Our product portfolio includes kitchen appliances such as ovens, steam ovens, refrigerators, coffee machines and dishwashers as well as vacuum cleaners, washing machines and dryers. Dishwashers, washer-extractors and tumble dryers for commercial use as well as washer-disinfectors and sterilisers for use in medical applications augment this line-up.

Miele is a family-run company in the fourth generation with eight production plants in Germany as well as one plant each in Austria, the Czech Republic, China and Romania. The company is represented with its own sales subsidiaries and via importers in almost 100 countries. In the 2020 fiscal year, the Miele Group achieved sales of 4.5 bn, 6.5% more than in 2019. Miele employs around 20,944 people worldwide.

Industry
Manufacturing & Production
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Gütersloh, DE
Year Founded
1899
Website
miele.com
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