Product Design Manager

Summary

Join HashiCorp's growing team as a Product Design Manager, leading and mentoring a team of designers. You will provide design direction, define best practices, and partner with cross-functional teams. This role requires experience managing designers, particularly in a remote setting, and a passion for scaling design within an organization. Success in this position hinges on strong communication, problem-solving skills, and the ability to foster a positive work environment. The position offers the opportunity to contribute to HashiCorp's design culture and work remotely. Compensation is competitive and varies based on location.

Requirements

• Formal experience managing a group of designers
• Experience managing a remote distributed team of reasonable size
• Have a passion for scaling design within an organization and hiring talented designers
• Are a manager who leads by example, through their experience in the design practice, and can help solve challenging problems in a complex space
• Experience designing enterprise SaaS products
• Phenomenal communication skills for working across the organization, capable of building strong relationships with peers and leadership
• Experience helping teams navigate ambiguity, strategically plan, and deliver
• The ability to work well in an ego-free, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team
• A dedication to modeling and supporting a positive and healthy work-life balance

Responsibilities

• Hire, manage, mentor, and inspire a team of product designers
• Lead your team effectively, providing design direction and pushing the quality of the work
• Focus the team, and company, on the user, making sure we're solving the right problems with the best solutions
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to define requirements, and successfully execute
• Collaborate with the Design and HashiCorp leadership to set vision and strategy for key design objectives
• Contribute to our growing design team and design culture at HashiCorp

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience working remotely