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
• - Mentor and inspire, give and seek feedback to continually raise our bar for quality
• - Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, as well as new functions and features
• - 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
• - Contribute to creating and maintaining our design system, participate in team critiques and reviews, assist in user research, organize customer events and design workshops

Required Skills

• - Experience developing designers’ skills and careers
• - Motivating and inspiring people to do their best work
• - Experience recruiting and building product design teams
• - Expertise in role and best practices
• - Experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments
• - Impressive portfolio showcasing understanding of simplicity, typography, interactions and product design
• - Understanding and appreciation of design iteration
• - Proven experience of advocacy for the customer and applying user research insights to design
• - Fluent written and spoken English

Benefits

• - Work from anywhere
• - Flexible paid time off
• - 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