Ankorstore is an online B2B marketplace that connects independent shop owners and specialist brands with retailers. It offers benefits for both retailers and brands. Our +250.000 retailers can discover and select from over 20.000 brands in just a few clicks, benefit from 60-day payment terms, test sales with a low minimum order quantity, and take advantage of the constantly evolving tools offered by the platform. As for brands and creators, Ankorstore allows them to sell their products to stores all over Europe, benefitting from direct contact and returns with retailers, and payment upon delivery, solving any cash flow issues.

We recently reached unicorn status with a valuation of €1.75 billion, and we grew to a company of +650 employees of +45 nationalities and offices in the UK, France, Benelux, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Sweden).

Join us if you are excited to support our vision of rewilding independent retail!

About your role

The Growth team at Ankorstore works to improve the customer experience whilst accelerating growth of our user base. Our brands and retailers are what makes Ankorstore unique and we are looking for someone who can contribute to overall strategy and product direction.

As a senior product designer, you’ll work in our Growth Tribe to work on end-to-end experiences designed to address user needs and business goals.

This is an exciting opportunity for designers who are passionate about solving large scale and complex problems to help provide a world-class experience for our retailers and brands.

• You will work on all aspects of our growth roadmap (including acquisition and retention, growth marketing and network effects) . You will also work on tools that help retailers and brands grow their businesses.
• Manage a team of 2/3 product designers in the Growth tribe. Lead and prioritize their roadmaps in collaboration and synchronisation with product management and engineering. You’re not afraid to get involved, we expect you to be hands on as well.
• Make sure every design initiative in your tribe is delivered on time with the highest standard of quality.
• Coach the members of the product design team and create an efficient environment for them to learn and grow.
• Collaborate and coordinate with our user researchers in order to leverage what we learn from our research and turn those insights into best-in-class user experiences by defining and creating functional and delightful solutions
• Identify opportunities, frame and solve problems weaving together experiences that take the user needs, business goals and technology into account
• Distill ideas, clearly communicate and articulate the design strategy of your scope in order to influence your stakeholders and co-build the product roadmaps
• Work closely with product managers and engineers to break silos and deliver meaningful projects for our customers.
• Increase design quality by defining standards, improve them, and train your teammates at learning them.
• Hire new team members and make the product design team grow as fast as the company.

What we are looking for

• You are passionate about making the complex simple.
• You have extensive experience in ecommerce specifically within a growth function at a startup or scale-up.
• 6+ years of experience as a Product Designer with experience managing or mentoring designers
• Make an impact: You want to design a product that is used by tens of thousands of companies, in a fast-growing environment.
• Leadership skills: You are passionate about management and demonstrated your ability to grow people through mentoring more junior designers or apprentices.
• A demonstrated ability to communicate UX vision and to align vision with product vision stakeholders and an intended market.
• An exceptional ability to conceptualize, pitch and implement UX concepts
• Extensive knowledge and experience designing in Figma.
• Continuous improvement: You have a track record of moving fast, iterating and testing things and learn from your mistakes
• Positive attitude and an ability to receive and provide objective feedback
• Eager to be part of a fast-paced environment in a hyper-growth company.
• Fluency in English and other European languages a plus!

Why work for Ankorstore.

What’s in for you?

• A highly dynamic environment in a fast scaling company at a stage where you will be able to shape things autonomously and participate in the future of the organization
• A real playground for development with exciting career opportunities, locally or internationally, with strong mentors
• Unique opportunity to join one of the fastest-growing European startups just after series C
• Working with a very ambitious & mission-driven team backed by powerful VCs (Tiger Global, Bain Capital, Bond, Index Ventures, and more)
• Competitive compensation
• Strong values, a real purpose-driven company
• International environment, remote-first
• Location: Europe, preferably in one of our main markets (UK, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, France)

Ankorstore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to promoting diversity. We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.