Senior Manager, Product Design

Summary

Join HashiCorp as a Senior Manager of Product Design for Vault Radar and lead a team shaping the future of security experiences. You will define and drive the experience vision, ensuring consistency and usability across the Secure product portfolio. This role demands close collaboration with engineering, product management, and cross-functional partners. Responsibilities include growing and mentoring a design team, driving high-impact design initiatives, and advocating for user-centered decision-making. The position requires experience leading design teams in enterprise software UX and a deep understanding of user-centered design principles. The role offers a competitive salary range depending on location.

Requirements

• Experience leading design teams in enterprise software UX
• A deep understanding of user-centered design, accessibility best practices, and end-to-end experience strategy
• Familiarity with design systems, especially in maintaining consistency across complex enterprise applications
• The ability to help the team balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, ensuring designers can effectively translate vision into reality
• Strong collaboration skills with product and engineering peers, influencing decision-making and prioritization
• Exceptional communication and storytelling abilities to articulate design decisions to stakeholders, including executives

Responsibilities

• Lead and Grow the Team: Manage, mentor, and scale a team of product designers focused on Vault Radar. Guide their career growth, provide regular feedback, and ensure high-quality execution
• Define and Maintain Experience Vision: Establish and evolve an end-to-end experience vision for Vault Radar, aligning with the broader Secure product strategy
• Drive Design Excellence: Ensure the team delivers high-quality, accessible, and consistent design solutions, leveraging the Helios Design System (HDS) and focusing on enterprise UX best practices
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with engineering, product management, research, and leadership to define roadmaps, priorities, and design strategies
• Advocate for the User: Champion user-centered design approaches, ensuring our security products remain intuitive, functional, and valuable to customers
• Strategic Influence: Represent design in executive updates, contributing insights and recommendations that shape the direction of Vault Radar and the Secure product portfolio
• Hiring & Scaling: Actively participate in hiring efforts, helping to grow a diverse, high-performing design team across regions, including potential global expansion

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working on security, identity, or cloud infrastructure products

Benefits

Competitive salary based on location, experience, and skills. Salary ranges are provided for various locations