Product Design Manager

Summary

Join Remote as a Product Design Manager and make a difference in the global employment space. You'll build, coach, and mentor a growing design team, overseeing the entire design process from research to validation. This fully remote position offers the chance to shape the user experience of our products and collaborate with diverse teams. You'll need experience developing designers' skills, recruiting, and building product design teams. Remote offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• You have experience developing designers’ skills and careers
• You excel at motivating and inspiring people to do their best work
• You have experience recruiting and building product design teams
• Demonstrates an elevated and expanded expertise in their role and best practices
• Fluent written and spoken English

Responsibilities

• Manage a quickly growing and business-critical team
• Contribute to hiring and retaining product designers; help to shape the team culture
• Ability to provide clear feedback and direction to designers on your team without being overly prescriptive
• Increase the level of team maturity. Mentor and inspire, give and seek feedback in order to continually raise our bar for quality
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, as well as new functions and features
• Identify what is needed for each design phase
• Contributes actively for the execution of cross-area projects
• Partner with Product Managers and Engineers to generate ideas and viable solutions
• Work directly with the engineering teams to implement new features and iterations and ensure quality standards are met
• Have a keen ability to create work under minimal supervision and package and present solutions to the broader creative team. Quickly and superbly
• Contribute to creating and maintaining our design system, participate in team critiques and reviews, assist in user research, organize customer events and design workshops
• Drive yourself and your peers to deliver the best quality of work, pixel-perfect in every way while embracing and encouraging new methods and ways of working
• Help the organization understand the needs, challenges, and wishes of customers today and in the future
• Collaborate on project briefs and scoping
• Improve existing design solutions while also continuing to evolve our brand language

Preferred Qualifications

• Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments
• An impressive portfolio showcasing a clear understanding of simplicity, typography, interactions and product design
• An understanding and appreciation of the practice of design iteration by always experimenting, evaluating and learning
• Proven experience of advocacy for the customer and applying user research insights to your design
• Effectively prioritizing and delivering their role's expected outcomes and proactively assisting colleagues where needed to help the team's success
• Contribution in order to keep work from the team consistent with the whole customer experience and designed with the customers' high-level goals and needs
• Collaboration with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements and provide creative, thoughtful solutions
• A kind, empathic and patient person
• Someone who loves working with people and solving problems with them
• One who cares deeply about diversity and inclusion
• It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Unlimited personal time off (minimum 4 weeks)
• Quarterly company-wide day off for self care
• Flexible working hours (we are async )
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office budget & IT equipment
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces