Senior Product Designer

Kleinanzeigen is the leading online classifieds market in Germany. An average of more than 50 million ads are available in numerous categories - from children's supplies to electronics to real estate. With more than 36 million users per month, Kleinanzeigen has the widest reach of all online selling platforms in the country. Most of the items traded on Kleinanzeigen are second-hand. In this way, users make an active contribution to sustainability. The Kleinanzeigen market allows companies the opportunity to easily offer their services online. Kleinanzeigen was launched in September 2009 as eBay Kleinanzeigen. Since June 2021, the company has been part of Adevinta, a leading global provider of online classified ads. In May 2023, the name was changed to Kleinanzeigen.

Kleinanzeigen is part of Adevinta: a global online classifieds specialist and sustainability leader with 25+ products in 10 countries.

What you'll do & Who you are

About the role

As a Senior Product Designer in our Core domain, you will shape the end-to-end experience that enables millions of users to buy and sell successfully.

You'll own design across the entire product lifecycle: From early discovery and problem framing to concept development, prototyping, delivery, and continuous iteration.

Working closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and data specialists, you'll help build intuitive, reliable, and delightful experiences that empower users to sell with confidence, find what they need and interact safely on the platform.

As part of the broader Product Design team, you'll regularly exchange ideas, participate in design reviews, and help build a strong, collaborative design culture across the organisation.

The Core team shapes the most central, most frequently used parts of Kleinanzeigen. Your work will directly impact how people sell and discover items and complete transactions safely — enabling positive, sustainable recommerce for millions of users.

This is a hybrid role that combines remote work with regular presence at our Berlin-Charlottenburg office.

What you will do

• Lead and participate in user research, uncovering insights that translate into clear hypotheses and meaningful product opportunities.
• Create and iterate on customer journeys, wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity UI that clarify direction and move the team from problem to solution.
• Use qualitative and quantitative data to design for real user needs, continuously optimising products based on user feedback and business impact.
• Define clear, scalable and accessible patterns that support a consistent UX across the marketplace.
• Partner with PMs, engineers and researchers throughout all phases — ideation, concepting, prototyping, testing, delivery and iteration.
  
  Facilitate ideation workshops, conduct user interviews, run usability tests and synthesise insights into actionable design recommendations.
• Advocate for user-centred design, ensuring that coherence, simplicity and safety remain at the core of all experiences.
• Support and contribute to a strong, collaborative and feedback-driven design culture.

What you bring

• Several years of experience as a Product Designer, UX/UI Designer or Interaction Designer in an agile environment.
• Strong conceptual and interaction design skills: You excel at turning complex systems into simple, intuitive interfaces.
• A keen eye for visual design and experience working with and contributing to a design system.
• Hands-on experience with user research and usability testing and confidence in turning findings into actionable next steps.
• Comfort sharing work early and often, receiving feedback and collaborating openly across functions.
• Ability to balance user needs, product vision and technical constraints while staying pragmatic and user-focused.
• Fluency in English and German (needed for collaboration and user interviews).
• Flexibility in working across multiple product areas, adapting easily to changing priorities.

Benefits

Life at Adevinta comes with its perks Our Adevintans enjoy the following benefits:

• An attractive Base Salary
• Participation in our Short Term Incentive plan (annual bonus)
• Work From Anywhere: Enjoy up to 20 days a year of working from anywhere Maybe not from the moon well why not just make sure you have internet connection
• A 24/7 Employee Assistance Program for you and your family, because we care
• Win together, lose together is one of our key behaviours. At Adevinta you will find a collaborative environment with an opportunity to explore your potential and grow

On top of these, we also provide a range of locally relevant benefits. Wanna know more? Apply and ask our recruiters

Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

If you feel like you don't meet all of the requirements for this role but are interested, please consider applying anyway. Research suggests that women and individuals from underrepresented groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. We strongly encourage people from historically excluded groups to apply and look forward to speaking with you.