Braze is hiring a
Product Design Manager

Summary

Join a genuinely approachable, exceptionally kind, and intensely passionate crew at Braze as we navigate rapid growth on a global scale. We're seeking a design leader to manage designers across multiple product areas, contribute to the vision and strategy of product teams, and ensure operational efficiency and accountability for design within this team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of design and/or front end development experience combined
• At least 2 years of experience managing direct-reports
• Penchant for understanding complex problems and products; unafraid to discuss technical feasibility and long term planning
• Clear, concise, and cogent communicator
• Structured thinker who uses frameworks to bring structure to projects
• Organized and thorough; habitually documents and double-checks work
• Comfortable with ambiguity and learning through experimentation
• Experience spearheading user research and/or working closely with UX researchers

Responsibilities

• Managing, mentoring and inspiring a team of product designers
• Contributing to the vision and strategy of the product teams you will work closest with
• Identifying and operationalizing overlapping efforts across product teams to ensure consistency for Braze customers
• Regularly and closely collaborating with Product Management, Engineering and Research disciplines within, and across, departments
• Recruiting, interviewing and hiring candidates for your team and across the design org
• Ensuring operational efficiency and accountability for design within this team
• Serving as both design advocate and ambassador of the user experience
• Helping to scale our design org, design and research operations, and the long-term health of our product design system, Beacon

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with any aspect of lifecycle marketing
• Experience working within a mature design system
• Experience working on SaaS products, especially messaging or more technical products

Benefits

• Competitive compensation that may include equity
• Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
• Flexible paid time off
• Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
• Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave
• Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and tuition reimbursement
• Community engagement opportunities throughout the year, including an annual company wide Volunteer Week
• Employee Resource Groups that provide supportive communities within Braze
• Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®