Product Design Manager

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Product Design Manager to Alva Labs

Ever applied for a job that suited you perfectly, but you didn’t even get a call-back for a first interview? Yeah, it has happened to most of us. But sadly, it often happens for the wrong reasons. For instance, you have a 60% less chance to get a callback if you have an arabic-sounding name. If it was for a leadership role, you are less likely to get it if you are a woman, or if you are short (yes, you read that correctly, short!).

But it doesn’t have to be like this. There are alternatives to hire based on the stuff that really matters, based on who the person behind the CV is. Alva is one of those alternatives. We are now looking for a Product Design Manager that can solve this problem, and through scientific research, user experience and a design mastermind help us change the world of hiring.


The company

Alva Labs offers a SaaS solution that is helping global companies grow their team in a scientific way. We have created a unique candidate assessment platform that helps companies build their organizations with the right people in the right place. By combining state-of-the-art psychometrics, data science, and an obsession with candidate experience, it provides the needed tool for data-driven talent acquisition.

We are growing 2-3x per year and are in the exciting phase to launch Alva in new markets. Currently, we are focusing a lot on making product lead growth and international expansion into new markets. Super exciting, right?


The role

As our first Product Design Manager at Alva, you will be directly managing a small - but experienced - team of three designers, and be involved in hiring and team processes. You will enable your team to define impactful roadmaps for their product areas and foster a product culture that prides itself on moving the needle for the company's strategy.

You will report to the Head of Product, and as this is a new position for us, you will have some room to shape the role yourself as well as deciding on the future of your team.


Some of your key responsibilities will include:

  • Make the design- and product team more efficient and collaborate more effectively.

  • Help designers grow their skills, expertise, knowledge, and understanding of how they can level up.

  • Create a vision for compelling user experience, and considers long-term changes in design patterns, tooling and workflows.

  • Deliver superior design while inspiring, teaching, and speeding up others. Advocates for and models great quality with proactive actions, and tackles difficult and subtle system issues.


Design is not just a part of Alva, but baked into every step of the way we build our products and services. At Alva, product designers bridge science and engineering into elegant solutions and easy-to-use products. For us, designers are able to identify the right problems, evaluate and come up with the right solutions and articulate ways to build the right thing.


Who are you

To succeed in this role, you some experience in leading other designers and believe in a coaching leadership style. Other qualifications include:

  • An expert at understanding the team’s motivations and drives, and adapting communication and priorities to fit them.

  • Maintains good relationships with all key stakeholders even when challenging.

  • Experience in shipping products and know how to take design decisions considering the scope. You can define specifications and expected behaviors and fine-tune them until launch.

  • Strong communication skills, enjoy working in an organized way and have the ability to collaborate and work with others.

  • Our organizational language at Alva is English. Swedish is not a requirement for this position.


Your future colleagues

We are a team of 80ish people (growing as we speak!), representing 15+ different nationalities and a wide selection of professional backgrounds. And all of that is absolutely fantastic, but the true beauty is the trust and warmth you will experience. All of us with passion for what we do and a strong commitment to continue developing the best recruitment tool in the market.


Why join Alva?

The problem we are solving is not just engaging and interesting (the combination of psychological science and statistics, with a large chunk of candidate experience obsession, what’s not to love?!), but it is also something that has a tremendous impact on both people and businesses. You will have the opportunity to work with something that truly makes a difference.

With almost 300 customers, strong growth, happy users, and 200 000+ assessed candidates, there is a lot of greatness to build from. We are now entering an exciting phase of our company journey, where we are doubling down on new markets and an international expansion. The company and the team have grown a lot in the last couple of months (150% more customers, and 250% more employees during 2021.). And we are just getting started! There will be so many opportunities to come grow with us.

Besides, we have flexible work hours, where you can decide for yourself what works best for you. You will get 7 weeks of vacation, an on-market salary, a generous preventive care benefit, and a few other neat perks. You can read all about our benefits here and our company values here.


The hiring process

Given that we claim to be experts in hiring, you probably wonder what we have in store for you.

  1. Objective screening with Alva’s tests

  2. First interview (focusing on who you are)

  3. Design interview with Head of Product & one Product Designer

  4. Team interview with another Product Designer & one Product Manager

  5. Final interview with Head of Product (who’s the hiring manager)

  6. Offer and toasts in bubbles!!


Come help us change the world of hiring!

Welcome to Alva!

For more information or questions please contact us at lisa@alvalabs.io

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

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

New tech gear
New tech gear

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

Remote work allowed
Remote work allowed

You know how you perform best. Work from your couch, your favorite cafe or abroad when you feel like it.

Central office
Central office

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

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Working at
Alva Labs

Ever stumbled upon a psychometric assessment during a recruitment process? Alva Labs is a SaaS scale-up that offers a unique candidate assessment platform. We help companies build their organizations with the right people in the right place, in a fair, accurate, and automated way. By combining state-of-the-art psychometrics, data science, and an obsession with candidate experience, we provide the needed tool for data-driven talent acquisition. We are growing. Fast. We have a strong product-market-fit and happy customers (some of them raving fans, even). We have +300 000 assessed candidates and almost 400 customers. And the best? This is just the beginning!

Read more about Alva Labs

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