Product Design Manager

Summary

Join Remote as a Product Design Manager and make a difference in the global employment space. You'll lead and mentor a growing design team, overseeing the entire design process from research to validation. This fully remote position offers the chance to build and shape a team culture, make strategic design decisions, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders. Remote prioritizes a diverse and inclusive workplace and offers competitive compensation and benefits. The role requires experience in developing designers' skills, recruiting design teams, and creating complex digital solutions. A strong portfolio showcasing design expertise is essential.

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
• Flexible paid time off
• 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