Senior Manager, Product Design & UX

Summary

Join Workleap as a Senior Manager, Product Design & UX and lead the design vision for ShareGate, a flagship product line. You will collaborate with various teams to create user-centric experiences for IT professionals. Responsibilities include driving strategic design vision, balancing customer needs with business priorities, elevating design maturity, developing design talent, and ensuring operational excellence. You will also facilitate collaboration, define success metrics, and lead a team of designers. The ideal candidate possesses 10+ years of experience in product design, with at least 5 years leading teams, a design degree or equivalent, and strong business acumen. Workleap offers a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in product design, with at least 5+ years leading and mentoring teams
• Degree in Design, HCI, Human Factors, or equivalent experience
• Proven ability to drive design excellence—leading teams to create high-impact, user-centered solutions
• Deep expertise in product design execution, from strategy to prototyping, documentation, and asset delivery for web and mobile
• Strong business acumen, with experience aligning design strategy with business goals and influencing senior leadership
• Exceptional storytelling and communication skills, translating complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives
• Experience scaling and managing high-performing design teams (5-10 designers or groups of teams), fostering career growth and a culture of innovation
• Strategic mindset with strong leadership, collaboration, and organizational skills to drive impact across teams and product lines

Responsibilities

• Drive the strategic vision for design, ensuring alignment with business goals, product strategy, and user needs
• Balance customer needs, business priorities, and technical constraints to drive user-centered design
• Elevate design maturity by embedding research, data insights, and experimentation into decision-making
• Develop and mentor design talent, fostering career growth, leadership development, and craft excellence
• Ensure operational excellence, optimizing execution across short- and long-term roadmaps while improving processes and team efficiency
• Facilitate collaboration and alignment, leading design critiques, stakeholder discussions, and strategic decision-making
• Define success metrics and measure impact, ensuring design decisions drive meaningful business and user outcomes

Benefits

• Supportive and inclusive work environment
• Environment that will adapt to your daily life and your needs