Product Design Manager

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Manage a quickly growing and business-critical team
• - Contribute to hiring and retaining product designers; help to shape the team culture
• - Provide clear feedback and direction to designers on your team without being overly prescriptive
• - Increase the level of team maturity
• - Mentor and inspire, give and seek feedback in order to continually raise our bar for quality
• - Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, as well as new functions and features
• - Identify what is needed for each design phase
• - Contribute actively for the execution of cross-area projects
• - Partner with Product Managers and Engineers to generate ideas and viable solutions
• - Work directly with the engineering teams to implement new features and iterations and ensure quality standards are met
• - Create work under minimal supervision and package and present solutions to the broader creative team
• - Contribute to creating and maintaining our design system, participate in team critiques and reviews, assist in user research, organize customer events and design workshops
• - Drive yourself and your peers to deliver the best quality of work, pixel-perfect in every way while embracing and encouraging new methods and ways of working
• - Help the organization understand the needs, challenges, and wishes of customers today and in the future
• - Collaborate on project briefs and scoping
• - Improve existing design solutions while also continuing to evolve our brand language

Required Skills

• - Experience developing designers’ skills and careers
• - Excel at motivating and inspiring people to do their best work
• - Experience recruiting and building product design teams
• - Elevated and expanded expertise in their role and best practices
• - Experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments
• - Impressive portfolio showcasing a clear understanding of simplicity, typography, interactions and product design
• - Understanding and appreciation of the practice of design iteration by always experimenting, evaluating and learning
• - Proven experience of advocacy for the customer and applying user research insights to your design
• - Effectively prioritizing and delivering their role's expected outcomes and proactively assisting colleagues where needed to help the team's success
• - Contribution in order to keep work from the team consistent with the whole customer experience and designed with the customers' high-level goals and needs
• - Collaboration with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements and provide creative, thoughtful solutions
• - Kind, empathic and patient person
• - Fluent written and spoken English

Benefits

• - Work from anywhere
• - Unlimited personal time off (minimum 4 weeks)
• - Quarterly company-wide day off for self care
• - Flexible working hours (we are async)
• - 16 weeks paid parental leave
• - Mental health support services
• - Stock options
• - Learning budget
• - Home office budget & IT equipment
• - Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces