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In this role, you lead an international UX team, develop the UX strategy for safety products, coach your staff, and promote innovation processes to embed user-centered design throughout the development cycle.
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Your role in the team
- You will work as a User Experience Team Lead, with the option of job sharing or part-time work.
- You lead a strong, internationally based team of experts—and create the conditions for their expertise to make its full impact.
- You provide direction, trust, and energy, making user-centricity the heart of our safety development.
- You lead with both head and heart: You take on the disciplinary and professional leadership of our UX organization and give your experts the space to put their exceptional skills to work.
- You coach and develop people, plan for succession and skills development, and lead with clarity, trust, and genuine interest in each individual.
- You lead across cultures: You manage internationally distributed teams in Lübeck, Vilnius, Belgrade, Blyth, and Beijing, turning different perspectives, time zones, and mindsets into a shared strength.
- Intercultural leadership isn’t an add-on for you—it’s second nature.
- You set the direction: You develop the UX strategy for the Security Technology business unit, implement it with the team across the product portfolio, and ensure lasting quality, including in lifecycle management.
- In addition, you will lead the global UX community of practice to make a tangible contribution to advancing our R&D and corporate strategy.
- You empower rather than manage: You coordinate resources, budgets, and external partners so your team can focus on what matters most, and ensure UX has a seat at the table from the earliest stages of innovation.
- You keep the passion for user-centricity alive: You foster a vibrant UX and design culture in which Design Thinking, user research, human factors, and modern usability methods are continuously developed—and encourage your team to keep exploring new approaches.
- You are the voice of your team externally: You work as an equal partner with Product Management, Systems Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical & Human Factors, Brand, and Marketing, make your team’s work visible, and embed the user perspective throughout the company.
Our expectations of you
Education
- Your foundation: You have completed a master’s degree or diploma in User Experience, Design, Human Factors, Psychology, Design Engineering, or a comparable field—or have taken an equivalent path that qualifies you for this role.
Qualifications
- A principled leader: You are a strong, approachable leader who provides direction, makes decisions, builds trust, and inspires people to go beyond what they thought possible.
- At home in a multicultural environment: You have led international teams and navigate confidently across cultures.
- You lead with empathy and clarity, remain solution-oriented even in conflict, and foster cohesion across distances.
- Passion for user-centricity: You are genuinely enthusiastic about user-centered development methods.
- You’re always looking for better ways of doing things, staying curious about trends in UX, design, and human factors—and inspiring your team to do the same.
- Understanding of the subject matter—not necessarily as the deepest expert: The in-depth expertise lies within your team, where it is strongly represented.
- You don’t have to be the best designer or researcher—the important thing is that you can contextualize, value, and strategically apply UX design, research, human factors, and design thinking.
- Strategic and entrepreneurial: You think strategically, act entrepreneurially, persuade with compelling arguments and personality, and actively drive change forward.
- You are fluent in German and English.
Experience
- You have several years of leadership experience.
What we offer
- This position can also be filled on a part-time job-sharing basis.
- Flexible working hours
- Retirement provision, discounted shares
- Private leisure and professional development programs
- Hybrid working possible
- Company sports and preventive health courses
- Discounts at local gyms
- On-site daycare, parent-child offices, and holiday childcare
- Employee discounts
Benefits
Health, fitness & fun
Topics you will work on
Job locations
About your employer
More than 300 employees all over the world leave our "Global IT Footprint". It doesn't matter where our IT teams are located. We work more closely together and create the best support for all business processes at Dräger today and in the future.
- 250+ Employees
- Established Company
- Onsite, Hybrid
- Industry, Production
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