Senior Manager, Product Design

Summary

Join LaunchDarkly as a Senior Manager, Product Design and lead a team of 5 product designers. Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to define the long-term vision and strategy for product design. Manage, mentor, and hire a world-class product design team. Drive the creative vision and apply problem-solving skills to diverse challenges. Lead the creation of new product visions impacting business revenue and prototype new product areas. Serve as a senior consultant on new products and future technologies, providing critical feedback and elevating market trends.

Requirements

• 10+ years experience working in the field of product design
• At least 2-3 years managing 2-5 people
• Very senior IC in recent history (staff designer, principal designer) - needs to be player coach, will still be hands on designing experiences for high impact areas
• Systems design experience
• Ability to construct longer term visions / blueprints
• Strong communicator
• Low ego
• Proven business impact
• Strong technical experience / background
• Enterprise B2B experience

Responsibilities

• Leadership (Management, Mentoring, Influence) Serves as a standard bearer for Design within the broader organization
• Manages a team of 5 product designers within their focus area. Responsible for career and performance management as well as day to day coaching and resource planning
• Helps define hiring standards and practices as well as hiring and building the team as necessary
• Natural leader who can galvanize the team(s) around a shared vision, inspiring others to charge forward in support and realization of the team's "North Star"
• Provides mentorship to all levels of designers
• Regularly provides training and support for new methods, tools, patterns
• Craft Skills (Depth and Growth of Design Skills) Visionary who can translate undefined ideas into an actionable design framework / roadmap
• Intuitive, with a strong ability to predict and anticipate user's unstated needs
• Experienced storyteller who drives consensus and influences through thoughtful, compelling visual narratives
• Generates adaptable and extensible UX frameworks, pushing other designers to think more flexibly and expansively
• Considers the experience outside of the immediate product and designs for that
• Main work product is design as communication
• Creates specs, presentations, documents as needed to create clarity and alignment or help other designers execute
• Scope and Delivery Leads the creation of new product visions that can have a meaningful impact on business revenue
• Can propose and prototype new product areas with ease
• Articulates strategy for emerging design/technology and its intersection with product and engineering
• Leads product design across multiple areas of focus
• Innovation leader by example. Other leaders and executives in the company seek out your expertise
• Critical feedback at the systems/strategic level in early design planning
• Elevates predictive market trends, affecting strategic planning
• Communicates design efforts to senior leaders
• Expected to anticipate emerging issues and ensure that they are handled
• Serves in senior consulting role on new products and future technologies, including market definition, business model, and core metrics targets at the company/product level
• May lead/influence significant non-related groups or areas outside of the individual’s area of functional expertise
• Process and Design Thinking (Judgment, Iteration, Facilitation, Independence) Facilitates brainstorms, ideation sessions, design thinking workshops, design sprints, and other activities with partners within their product line, extended teams, and company leadership
• Pushes boundaries of a solution; raises the bar for design work. Looks for improvements to "The way it's always been done"
• Anticipates needs for cross-product integrations and advocates for roadmap work to achieve them
• Collaboration and Communication Peer to other company leaders; acts as a strategic thought-partner and conduit on behalf of the design team
• Supports leaders and members of a team through design pairing and reviews
• Serves as the main point of contact for a product or project across multiple disciplines

Benefits

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary