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Principal Product Designer - Strategic Discovery

Germany, Berlin · Job Posted June 16, 2026
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We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Product Designer (Strategic Specialist) who excels at the front end of innovation: product discovery, research strategy, and complex problem framing. Within Partner Tech in Berlin, you will navigate ambiguity, lead strategic product discoveries, and apply systemic design thinking to inspire and align cross-functional teams. In this role, your title is Product Designer, but your superpower is an advanced mastery of qualitative and quantitative user research. You will sit squarely in the Discovery phase of our product lifecycle, operating as a vital bridge between User Research, Product Management, and Design Strategy. Crucially, you don’t just deliver research reports, you translate insights into structural user experience concepts, interaction models, and tangible product experiences. Partner with senior Product Management to co-create strategic prioritization frameworks, ensuring qualitative user benchmarks directly influence the long-term product roadmap. Together with our cross-functional team, you will discover, build, and synthesize insights to unlock commercial growth and operational efficiency for Zalando’s partners.

Job Responsibility

  • Define and run cohesive research and discovery strategies across the product development lifecycle
  • Materialize product strategy and shape concepts hands-on
  • Discover intangible partner attitudes, behaviors, and core motivations through rigorous field research
  • Translate complex insights into compelling narratives, storyboards, and qualitative benchmarks
  • Enable a product-led organization to mature by actively modeling user-centered design practices
  • Partner with senior Product Management to co-create strategic prioritization frameworks
  • Translate customer insights not just into structural concepts, but into explicit business cases

Requirements

  • Advanced Multi-Method Research
  • Conceptual Design & Experience Modelling
  • Strategic Synthesis & Information Architecture
  • CX Visioning & Strategy Alignment
  • B2B / Complex System Problem Solving
  • Expert Facilitation & Enablement
  • You define and run cohesive research and discovery strategies across the product development lifecycle
  • You materialize product strategy and shape concepts hands-on
  • You discover intangible partner attitudes, behaviors, and core motivations through rigorous field research
  • You translate complex insights into compelling narratives, storyboards, and qualitative benchmarks
  • You enable a product-led organization to mature by actively modeling user-centered design practices
  • You partner with senior Product Management to co-create strategic prioritization frameworks
  • You translate customer insights not just into structural concepts, but into explicit business cases

Nice to have

Expert Facilitation & Enablement

What we offer

  • 27 days of holiday a year to start for full-time employees (+1 day for every calendar year up to 30 days)
  • 2 paid volunteering days a year
  • Hybrid working model with up to 60% remote per week
  • Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
  • Employee shares program
  • 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Lounge by Zalando, discounts from external partners
  • Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)
  • Family services, including counseling and support
  • Health and wellbeing options (including Wellhub, formerly Gympass)
  • Mental health support and coaching available
  • Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review

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