Senior Manager, Product Design

Summary

Join Accurate Background as their experienced Manager of Product Design to lead a team focused on driving product development and digital experience. You will work closely with various teams to drive innovation and improve usability. The ideal candidate is a skilled designer and influential leader with exceptional communication and collaboration skills. Accurate Background offers a fast-paced environment with room for growth. This role involves managing and mentoring a team of product designers, ensuring high-quality product experiences, and collaborating with other departments. The company offers a competitive salary and a full range of benefits.

Requirements

• Minimum 8+ years of experience as a UX Design Leader or equivalent
• Build, manage, coach and scale a team of high-performing product designers while collaborating cross-departmentally with Product, Engineering, and Marketing leadership to plan and iterate on a variety of new and existing features and products
• Drive best practices in the design process, user research, user testing and cross functional collaboration
• Ensure best-in-class design solutions across all of our products and features and ensure teams are delivering high-quality product design work
• Manage and empower product designers and UX developers in doing their best work
• Partner closely with engineering and product to identify solutions to design challenges
• Raise the bar for product quality across our products by advocating for user-centered product roadmaps, investments in innovation, and insights driven by user research
• Iteratively improve products based on quantitative and qualitative feedback and clearly communicate design decisions to stakeholders across departments
• Balance long-term and short-term perspectives throughout the continuous release process while iterating toward a future vision
• Provide direction and growth to the design team by reviewing design progress and providing constructive feedback to drive creative execution
• Lead and workshop design thinking exercises to further develop designers and others in the business while pushing for creative growth and industry knowledge

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a team of product designers, ensuring the delivery of high-quality product experiences
• Employ a strategic approach to design, combining thoughtful leadership, creative direction, and people management to empower the team in creating outstanding experiences for our candidates and customers
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineering leaders, leveraging strong communication and storytelling skills to advocate for a cohesive digital design system, user experience vision, and strategy
• Utilize in-depth understanding of user behavior, employing robust analytics and experimentation frameworks to drive data-informed design decisions
• Translate business needs into clear design direction for both interaction and visual design
• Identify, prioritize, and create new design components that are reusable, responsive and accessible, while driving adoption of the design system
• Inspire and lead experience design innovation
• Ensure team accountability for commitments and ideas
• Foster team growth and career development while challenging teams to surpass conventional thinking
• Cultivate and maintain robust cross-functional relationships, while establishing yourself as a thought leader in product strategy; influence, mentor, and guide other designers to deliver the best work of their lives

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Advanced understanding of design systems and an ability to communicate its value at various levels and functions of the organization
• Advanced proficiency in product design and development tools (i.e., Figma, Principle, Framer; ability to write markup and/or develop in HTML, JS, SwiftUI, etc.)
• The ability to thrive at the intersection of design strategy, scaled solutions, and craft

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• 401k
• $122,200 - $165,000 a year
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Commission
• Other variable pay plan