Product Design Manager, DesignOps, Design System

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DocPlanner

💵 $65k-$87k
📍Remote - Spain

Job highlights

Summary

Join Docplanner as a Product Design Manager and play a key role in driving operational excellence and fostering collaboration across design teams. Your main focus will be managing and evolving Watson, the company's design system. You will lead a team of three designers, guiding their growth and ensuring alignment with platform vision. This role requires a strategic mindset, balancing big-picture strategy with practical execution. You will be hands-on, contributing directly to projects in Figma. The position offers a competitive salary, flexible work arrangements, and comprehensive benefits.

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, the 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 between 60,000 and 80,000 euros
  • Flexible remuneration and benefits system via Flexoh, which includes: restaurant card, transportation card, kindergarten, and training tax savings
  • Share options plan after 6 months of working with us
  • Remote or hybrid work model with our hub in Barcelona
  • Flexible working hours
  • Summer intensive schedule during July and August (work 7 hours, finish earlier)
  • 23 paid holidays, with exchangeable local bank holidays
  • Additional paid holiday on your birthday or work anniversary (you choose what you want to celebrate)
  • Private healthcare plan with Adeslas for you and subsidized for your family (medical and dental)
  • Access to hundreds of gyms for a symbolic fee in partnership for you and your family
  • Access to iFeel, a technological platform for mental wellness offering online psychological support and counseling
  • Free English and Spanish classes

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