Group Product Design Manager

Summary

Join Deel, a rapidly growing SaaS company, as a Group Product Design Manager to lead and scale design teams across multiple core product areas. This high-impact leadership role involves setting design excellence standards and redefining how businesses hire, onboard, pay, manage, and develop global talent. You will drive design vision and execution, collaborating with various stakeholders. As a senior leader, you'll mentor a talented design team, ensuring their success and aligning design with company priorities. Your leadership will be crucial in enhancing user experience and establishing Deel's products as a benchmark for trust and innovation in global HR and fintech. Deel offers a dynamic and inclusive work environment, and this role presents a significant opportunity to shape the future of global work.

Requirements

• 8–10+ years of product design experience, with at least 4+ years in leadership roles managing senior individual contributors
• Proven success scaling design teams in high-growth, fast-paced environments
• Experience leading globally distributed teams and building empowered design cultures
• Deep fluency in UX, UI, and product strategy, with a strong systems mindset
• A refined sense of detail and quality, paired with the ability to think at scale
• Experience delivering cross-platform solutions in complex or regulated domains
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity while translating high-level vision into clear action
• Skilled at balancing velocity with quality and driving continuous improvement
• Strong product thinking with a focus on impact and long-term outcomes
• Autonomous, self-driven, and capable of identifying gaps and proactively filling them
• Exceptional communicator, with the ability to clearly articulate vision, trade-offs, and direction
• Able to build trust across disciplines and at all levels of the organisation
• A collaborative facilitator who brings people together to solve big, complex problems

Responsibilities

• Define and champion a bold, cohesive design strategy across multiple product areas in alignment with Deel’s long-term mission
• Champion a culture of innovation and design excellence, embedding user-centred design principles into the organisation
• Partner with executive leadership to influence product direction and position design as a key driver of innovation and competitive advantage
• Elevate the role of design in the organisation by connecting scalable systems, user empathy, and creative vision
• Lead, mentor, and inspire a high-performing team of individual contributors at all levels as needed. The levels will vary based on evolving business priorities
• Provide structured coaching and career development to ensure your team thrives with autonomy and clarity
• Foster a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative team culture focused on craft, growth, and impact
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Business partners to solve complex challenges with scalable, elegant solutions
• Drive alignment across verticals, balancing short-term delivery pressures with long-term strategic bets
• Represent the design perspective at the leadership level, advocating for users and responsible innovation
• Maintain end-to-end ownership of design quality across platforms and customer touchpoints
• Actively participate in design reviews, providing clarity, direction, and actionable feedback
• Step into high-priority or ambiguous spaces when needed, helping teams stay unblocked and aligned
• Optimise resourcing across teams to meet evolving business priorities while safeguarding design quality
• Evolve design systems, processes, and rituals that support speed, cohesion, and cross-functional execution
• Champion operational excellence to help distributed teams work efficiently without compromising on craft
• Define clear success metrics for design and tie outputs directly to business outcomes and user satisfaction
• Use insights from data, research, and experimentation to prioritise and iterate
• Balance bold innovation with accountability, always driving toward measurable impact

Benefits

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access