Product Design Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of product designers, providing coaching, career guidance, and actionable feedback to help individuals grow and deliver high-impact work
• Drive design strategy and vision across multiple large-scale product initiatives, translating organizational goals into focused design plans with clear milestones and measurable outcomes
• Partner with product management, engineering, data science, and research leaders to define product direction and align design work to business and user needs
• Establish and uphold a high bar for design craft and quality across the team, setting benchmarks and mentoring designers to deliver at scale
• Champion the adoption of AI tools within design workflows, modeling effective and responsible AI use and building AI fluency across the team
• Proactively identify integration opportunities across related product surfaces, resolving cross-team design challenges to improve the coherence of the overall product system
• Recruit high-potential designers and future design leaders, building a team known for inspiring work and a strong collaborative culture
• Drive design organization-wide initiatives that materially improve the caliber, efficiency, or satisfaction of the broader design team
• Communicate design strategy and decisions clearly to executives and cross-functional stakeholders, anticipating risks and enabling timely, well-informed decisions
• Foster a team culture of trust, psychological safety, and continuous improvement, ensuring individuals feel empowered to raise concerns and take smart risks

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product design, with a portfolio demonstrating high-quality, shipped consumer or enterprise product work
• 4+ years of experience managing product designers, including coaching, performance management, and career development
• Experience leading design strategy and execution across multiple large-scale, cross-functional product initiatives simultaneously
• Experience influencing long-term product vision and roadmap in partnership with product management and engineering leadership
• Experience recruiting and developing design talent, including identifying high-potential designers and managing performance across a team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating AI-powered design tools into team workflows and establishing responsible practices for AI use in the design process
• Experience driving design systems adoption or design tooling improvements that increased team efficiency or quality at scale
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Experience working on products with significant cross-platform or cross-regional complexity, requiring alignment across multiple organizations
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

Compensation

• $201,000/year - $278,000/year; Country: US; Bonus eligible; Equity eligible

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