Senior Manager, Product Design

Role overview Establish and lead a product design function while remaining deeply involved in hands-on design. Most of the work is designing across product teams, with the remaining time devoted to managing a designer and creating the principles, systems, and practices that will guide future design hires. A key focus is turning complex performance data and AI-generated insights into clear, engaging, and trustworthy product experiences.

Responsibilities - Design features across product teams, with an emphasis on analytics, reporting, and intelligence experiences. - Set a high standard for presenting data and AI-generated insights so people can understand and act on them confidently. - Manage and develop a product designer, and build the design function’s principles, system, operations, and career framework. - Partner with product managers on strategy and roadmaps, contributing a design perspective on customer problems and priorities. - Lead customer research and discovery, including interviews, advisory feedback, and synthesis across teams. - Work with engineering, product, agency teams, and leadership to improve consistency, quality, and design delivery. - Guide the design practice’s use of AI tools and help define where they improve the work.

Requirements - At least six years of product design experience, including two or more years managing or formally mentoring designers. - Strong portfolio of data, analytics, or intelligence products, such as dashboards, reporting, insights, or AI-generated summaries. - Willingness and ability to spend most of the role doing hands-on design work. - Experience creating design foundations from scratch, such as principles, design systems, operations, or critique practices. - Practical experience with AI tools and clear judgment about their role in design work. - Comfort leading through ambiguity with limited processes and incomplete information.

Nice to have - Experience at a startup or scale-up, or as a first design leader or founding designer. - Work on customer-facing AI features, including patterns that support trust and explainability. - Knowledge of digital marketing or real estate.

Benefits and work setup - Open to candidates located in the United States. Work arrangement is described as work from anywhere or one remote day per week. - Four-day, 32-hour workweek; $160,000–$190,000 annual salary range and discretionary bonus. - Benefits include three weeks of paid time off, sick and bereavement leave, 11 paid holidays, 401(k) match, health coverage, wellness reimbursement, and paid parental leave. - Additional details include a travel fund after three years, dog-friendly office, and team events and meals.