Head of Product Design - Design Foundations

WELCOME TO OLX

We're building marketplace sustainable ecosystems that millions of people depend on every month – to buy and sell cars, find homes, land jobs, and trade secondhand goods. It's commerce that matters: safe, smart, and environmentally responsible. We do this with courage to innovate, commitment to outcomes, collaboration across 50+ nationalities and 8+ markets, and a customer‑led approach that puts real people first.

Add a desire to win – and you get a culture that's ambitious, fast‑moving, and built on trust.

Our brands – including OLX, Otomoto, and Otodom – are loved by millions. And we're backed by Prosus, one of the world’s largest tech investors.

The Design Foundations team brings together Nexus — our multi‑brand design platform and system — alongside Content Design and GenAI Design to shape how design, engineering, and product scale across a complex, distributed organization. We are looking for an experienced design leader to guide this critical area and help define the future foundations that enable teams to move faster while delivering cohesive, high‑quality experiences.

This is not a traditional design system leadership role focused solely on components or visual consistency. Nexus is a strategic platform that accelerates product development, improves experience quality, and aligns multiple brands and teams around shared principles, tools, and standards. Combined with Content Design and GenAI design capabilities, the Foundations team plays a central role in defining how we build, communicate, and innovate at scale.

You will operate at the intersection of design, engineering, and product leadership — shaping governance models, defining operating frameworks, and driving adoption strategies that empower teams while maintaining coherence across the ecosystem.

Success in this role requires strong organizational leadership, a platform mindset, and the ability to align diverse stakeholders around a shared vision for scalable design foundations.

• Define and evolve the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Nexus as shared UX infrastructure.
• Treat the design system as an internal product with clear users, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Balance consistency, flexibility, and scalability across multiple brands and product areas.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of designers focused on building and evolving Nexus.
• Set a high bar for design quality, systems thinking, and collaboration with engineering.
• Create clarity of roles, priorities, and ways of working within the team.
• Foster a strong culture of ownership, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure the team operates with a platform mindset, focused on adoption, scalability, and impact.

• Define ownership models, contribution workflows, and decision‑making frameworks.
• Create predictable processes that enable distributed teams to contribute and adopt Nexus effectively.
• Build governance structures that scale without slowing teams down.

• Partner closely with engineering leadership to align on architecture, tooling, and delivery workflows.
• Ensure Nexus integrates seamlessly into development pipelines and supports engineering velocity.
• Advocate for platform thinking and shared infrastructure across design and engineering.

• Engage designers, engineers, and product teams as active participants in shaping Nexus.
• Build strong internal communities and contribution models.
• Drive adoption through clear value, usability, and collaboration rather than mandate.

• Enable faster development through reusable foundations, tokens, components, and patterns.
• Improve design quality and consistency without creating rigidity.
• Measure and demonstrate the impact of Nexus on speed,…