Product Design Manager

Summary

Join Docplanner Tech as a Product Design Manager and play a key role in driving operational excellence and collaboration across design teams. Your main focus will be managing and evolving Watson, the company's design system, to ensure consistency, scalability, and flexibility across products. You will lead a team of three designers, guiding their growth and ensuring alignment with platform vision and standards. This role requires a strategic mindset, strong project management skills, and deep Figma expertise. The position offers a competitive salary, remote work flexibility, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth. Docplanner Tech is committed to diversity and inclusion, fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Requirements

• A portfolio showcasing design systems you have created or significantly contributed to
• Proven experience in leading, mentoring, and managing a small team of designers, fostering collaboration and professional growth
• Deep expertise with Figma, component libraries, and other design system management tools
• A strategic mindset focused on design scalability, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and bridging the gap between design, product, and engineering
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to prioritize and execute multiple initiatives simultaneously
• A solid understanding of systems thinking, user-centered design principles, and accessibility standards
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design decisions and operational strategies to stakeholders
• Familiarity with data-informed decision-making, including metrics to measure the effectiveness of design operations and systems
• 6+ years of experience in interaction design

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Watson, our design system: Ensure it is scalable, accessible, and flexible for all product teams, addressing emerging needs and maintaining quality
• Lead and manage a team of three product designers, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to foster growth and high-quality outputs
• Oversee project management, ensuring the design system stays on track: decide sprint priorities, assign tasks, and set deadlines
• Drive operational excellence in design practices, optimizing design team workflows and ensuring the delivery of consistent, high-quality work. Also, improving, owning, and gatekeeping our Figma structure and files to make sure we are as efficient as possible
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and other stakeholders to align on the platform’s design strategy and execution
• Facilitate adoption and education of the design system by creating resources and providing training to improve understanding and usage across teams, driving its adoption
• Advocate for design quality and operational scalability, striking the right balance between speed and sustainable design practices
• Ensure the seamless integration of design system components into tools like Figma, maintaining thorough documentation to ensure usability and accuracy

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in front-end development

Benefits

• A salary adequate to your experience and skills.The range is broad so that we can accommodate our roles for all levels of experience, but we will show you the career ladder to explain where we see your skills and impact within the company". Your salary will be, now and always, 100% transparent to you
• For B2B contract: between 17.000 and 28.500 PLN net monthly or company cost equivalent on employment contract
• Share options plan after 6 months of working with us
• Remote or hybrid work model with or hub in Warsaw
• Flexible working hours (fully flexible, as in most cases you only have to be on a couple of meetings weekly)
• 20/26 days of paid time off (depending on your contract)
• Additional paid day off on your birthday or work anniversary (you choose what you want to celebrate)
• Private healthcare plan with Signal Iduna for you and subsidized for your family
• Multisport card co-financing for you to have access to sports facilities across Poland
• Access to iFeel, a technological platform for mental wellness offering online psychological support and counseling
• Free English classes