UX Design Manager

Salary Competitive

Do you want to help us change peoples' lives, and help them live a healthier lifestyle? Do you want to be part of a successful and fast growing scale up within the health tech industry and craft products in the spirit of Marty Cagan and Teresa Torres? Then Lenus is the place for you!

With more than 250 employees, from 28 nationalities in 5 countries, our mission is to help as many people as possible life a healthy lifestyle through personal, online coaching. We have created a 360 platform for online personal trainers and health professionals including all aspects of the online coach journey – from marketing, analytics and administration of clients to the client user experience.

We are looking for an experienced and senior UX professional to lead our team of 8 UXers. You will play a central role in defining our future product. As UX Design Manager you will lead cross team UX initiatives and help develop and grow your team.


Join our team

Our software has helped people lose over 100.000 kg and change their life with healthy habits, workouts and nutrition! This number has grown exponentially until now and we need you as our UX Strategist to help us maintain the growth.

We are looking for someone passionate about our mission of shaping the new industry of online fitness coaching. You have the ambition of defining the future of our world-class products. Our diverse and open-minded team is based in Copenhagen. We work hard, but also strive to have fun while doing it.


Your areas of responsibility will be:

  • Manage a team of User Experience professionals to develop and support our product.

  • Ensure fitting product-team compositions and lead recruitment of new user experience designers and researchers.

  • Develop team members’ skills, promote career development and provide design leadership and guidance to UX designers & researchers.

  • Influence and establish best design & research practices through solid design decisions, processes and tools.

  • Ensure a productive environment for your team of designers & researchers allowing them to grow and produce meaningful work aligned with business objectives.

  • Work closely with product management team to ensure we're building the best products.

  • Join and lead discussions around different platform initiatives.


You are expected to lead from your core competence as a seasoned User Experience designer, where you're well familier with

  • Planning and executing product discovery in collaboration with product managers and tech leads

  • Mapping, triangulating, and making sense of customer insights while connecting it with desired business outcomes and possible solutions.

  • Defining, articulating, and testing ideas, concepts, interactions, and prototypes with a strong focus on solving user needs.

  • Facilitating workshops and programs

  • Setting up continuous and recurring cycles of constant user feedback and testing with end-users.


About you:

  • You have 5+ years of professional experience with UX

  • You have minimum 2+ years leadership experience managing teams

  • You have a strong toolbox of UX methods that span across strategy, user research, and interaction design.

  • You have worked in a metric driven product organisation and value the power of the accumulated knowledge of frequent (weekly) customer touchpoints over more thorough field studies, while both are essential.

  • You can analyze and break down complex problems, and know how to work strategically and structured as you uncover desired outcomes and user needs and transform them into new and validated concepts and ideas.

  • You have experience with digital idea- and concept development. Could be through design sprints, prototyping, or similar.

  • You work in a goal- and data-driven way and would rather want to validate your hypotheses through research, tests, and prototypes, than trusting your gut instinct

  • You are familiar with the principles of modern iterative development and concepts like Dual Track agile, OKRs, etc.

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Free friday beers
Free friday beers

Friday is something special, let's enjoy a beer together.

New tech gear
New tech gear

Are you a true Tech Savvy? Macbook, trackpad, you name it, we get you covered.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Central office
Central office

Your local office is your anchor point, thus, we placed it centrally at your convenience.

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Peckish after lunch? We got your back with soft drinks, treats and fruit.

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Working at
Lenus

The health coaching revolution starts here Lenus partners with the world’s best health & fitness coaches to power their growth. We support the new generation in taking their coaching business to the next level. We empower partners in the areas of physical health, mental & wellbeing, nutrition, lifestyle and habit & behavior coaching- A truly holistic approach to health. Fusing together our innovative tech, strategic expertise & human connection, we’re fully equipped to handle the business of coaching, so that coaches can focus on delivering real value to their clients. We’re accelerating the holistic health revolution. Do meaningful work, every day We are like-minded people for whom health and growth are core values and clear priorities. Here, we’re fundamentally energized by our shared vision: making the world a healthier and happier place. The path from our effort to our impact is short. In other words, our work matters. We are at the forefront of the health-tech field that’s under rapid transformation, and our innovations pave the path to the impact we want to create. Reach memorable career heights At Lenus, we inspire and motivate each other to do our best work and to always expand our skills and evolve our mindsets. We share an international platform and get support from peers and the organization to grow. We encourage people to innovate, test, fail, refine and bounce back. And not to be afraid of pushing the button. This often results in truly memorable moments of a career, regardless of the nature, complexity, pace or size of achievements. Bond through genuine human connections We are human at our core and we go all out to nurture authentic connections and experiences. To elevate and genuinely care for one another is the essence of who we are. A team of real, passionate people with unshakable optimism and contagious energy. Our informal environment encourages teamraderie. It empowers everyone to step in with their entire personality, and to engage and collaborate enthusiastically across functions, responsibilities and titles.

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