We believe the future of our products sits at the intersection of AI and design. Our ambition is to become an AI-native organization, where intelligent systems and human-centered design come together to create faster, smarter, and more meaningful customer experiences. We’re rethinking how products are built, how experiences are shaped, and how teams deliver impact.
A key part of this transformation is creating the right foundations and infrastructure to enable high-quality experiences at scale - where design systems, patterns, and workflows are structured, scalable, and AI-readable, unlocking new levels of speed, consistency, and innovation.
What you’ll doLead Craft & Quality Across the VerticalSet and uphold a high bar for interaction, UX, and visual design quality across all the Business Units.
Identify gaps in experience consistency and drive alignment across teams.
Turn strong design instincts into explicit, repeatable standards.
Define how the design system is applied, extended, and governed within the vertical.
Establish clear guidelines, principles, and usage patterns to reduce fragmentation.
Partner with design systems teams to ensure coherence across OLX while enabling vertical-specific needs.
Lead the evolution of design systems and patterns into structured, machine-readable formats.
Ensure components, patterns, and flows are designed for AI-assisted creation and scalability.
Explore how AI can: Generate and validate UI patterns, improve consistency and quality enforcement and accelerate design and build workflows
Design and prototype critical flows and interactions yourself.
Push for excellence in the last 20% of execution, where quality truly differentiates.
Bring clarity to complex problems through strong design thinking and making.
Shape product direction through design-led thinking, not just execution.
Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define what great looks like.
Use design to connect user needs, business goals, and technical possibilities.
Act as a craft leader across designers, not just within a single team.
Provide feedback, coaching, and guidance to raise the overall quality bar.
Create a culture of taste, detail, and continuous improvement.
10+ years in product design, with experience operating at Staff or Principal level.
Proven track record of shipping high-quality, complex digital products.
Strong expertise across: UX and interaction design, visual design and systems thinking and End-to-end product experiences
Deep experience with design systems and scalable design frameworks.
Ability to define standards, guidelines, and governance models that teams actually adopt.
Experience reducing fragmentation and increasing consistency across multiple teams.
Understanding of AI/ML product design patterns, including prompt design, conversational UX, agentic workflows, human-in-the-loop patterns, progressive disclosure, and trust calibration.
Comfort with technical AI concepts and the ability to collaborate closely with ML engineers and AI researchers on interaction models, edge cases, error states, and confidence thresholds.
Active use of AI tools in your own workflow, across prototyping, research synthesis, design exploration, or code-assisted design.
Strong interest or experience in AI-driven product experiences or workflows.
Understanding of how design systems evolve into structured data, tokenized systems, and machine-readable patterns.
Comfortable experimenting with AI tools in design and prototyping.
A builder mindset - you design, prototype, and refine, not just direct.
High attention to detail and strong design taste.
Ability to operate with autonomy in ambiguous environments.
Outstanding communicator and facilitator who can bring people together and align teams through clear, compelling design narratives.
Experienced in mentoring and growing designers - enabling them to deliver high-quality work and progress in their careers.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity at speed, driving clarity from complexity, and balancing user needs with business goals.
Strong cross-functional collaborator - building trust with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and business stakeholders to deliver coherent, impactful experiences.
The experience feels cohesive, high-quality, and intentional across all touchpoints.
Design decisions are guided by clear systems and principles, not ad hoc choices.
Teams move faster because they rely on well-defined patterns and guidelines.
The design system evolves into a scalable, AI-ready foundation.
Craft quality is visibly higher - and consistently so.
You prefer managing teams over designing and crafting experiences.
You focus primarily on strategy without driving execution quality.
You are uncomfortable with ambiguity or undefined problem spaces.
You don’t enjoy working deeply on systems, patterns, and details.
Location details
This role can be based in the following locations: Spain (remote or Barcelona), Portugal (remote or Lisbon), the Netherlands (remote or Amsterdam). Please note that OLX does not offer relocation support for this position. We will only consider candidates who are currently based in one of the listed locations. However, if you already have the right to work in one of these countries, we’re happy to support you with any local visa transfer process.
Skills Required
- 10+ years in product design, with experience operating at Staff or Principal level
- Proven track record of shipping high-quality, complex digital products
- Strong expertise in UX and interaction design, visual design, systems thinking, and end-to-end product experiences
- Deep experience with design systems and scalable design frameworks
- Ability to define standards, guidelines, and governance models and drive adoption across teams
- Experience reducing fragmentation and increasing consistency across multiple teams
- Understanding of AI/ML product design patterns (prompt design, conversational UX, agentic workflows, human-in-the-loop, progressive disclosure, trust calibration)
- Comfort collaborating with ML engineers and AI researchers on interaction models, edge cases, and confidence thresholds
- Active use of AI tools in design workflow (prototyping, research synthesis, design exploration, code-assisted design)
- Ability to design, prototype, and refine (hands-on craft leader, not only management)
- Outstanding communication, facilitation, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience mentoring and growing designers, raising craft quality and standards
What We Do
At OLX, we build leading marketplace ecosystems enabled by tech, powered by trust, and loved by our customers. Together we're building a more sustainable world through trade. Serving tens of millions of people every month, we help people buy and sell cars, find housing, get jobs, buy and sell household goods, and much more. Our well-loved consumer brands (including OLX, Otomoto, Otodom, Property24, and more) offer safe, smart, and convenient trading platforms and services for our customers. OLX is powered by teams around the world, who are unified in their ambition to help people get more from the world’s limited resources. We are OLX.
