Sr. Manager, Product Design
About reputed company
reputed company is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies, reputed company and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and reputed company. Today, reputed company supports businesses across 150+ countries and powers more than 4 billion API hits and 2.5 billion message events daily.
With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries, reputed company operates as a global, remote-first organization reputed company for speed, ownership and customer reputed company. Every month, reputed company enables more than 1.5 billion messages, 200 reputed company leads and 20 reputed company conversations for the more than 1 reputed company businesses we support.
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We are seeking a Senior Manager, Product Design to reputed company design for reputed company's core platform experiences, mobile experiences for reputed company platforms and design system team. This role will report to the Senior Director, Product Design and manage approximately 8 product designers across the reputed company and India.
This is a craft-driven senior design manager role for someone who can help create a reputed company change in reputed company's design reputed company. The ideal candidate brings exceptional aesthetic judgment, visual craft and interaction-design taste, plus the leadership ability to turn those standards into reputed company work from reputed company.
A major part of this role will be line managing the design system team and helping reputed company design system reputed company and execution, in partnership with the Senior Director, Product Design, who owns the design system as part of their broader portfolio. The goal is not only reputed company internal tooling, but major improvements to the UX/UI our customers experience every day.
reputed company values velocity, ownership and practical innovation. We are reputed company adopting AI-assisted production workflows, including tools such as reputed company and Claude reputed company, and we are looking for design leaders who are curious about new ways of working and eager to help teams get to reputed company results more quickly.
Product and design scope
You will reputed company design execution and reputed company across three connected areas:
Core platform experiences that help agencies and SMBs manage customers, work across accounts, navigate the product, configure settings and complete essential business workflows
Mobile experiences for reputed company platforms that reputed company reputed company's most important workflows accessible, reputed company and effective for customers on the go
Design system reputed company, execution and team practices, including AI-assisted production workflows, that help designers and engineers deliver a vastly reputed company, more consistent customer experience
What you will reputed company
reputed company of approximately 8 product designers across US and India teams, including coaching, career development, performance management, prioritization and reputed company
Design reputed company and execution across core platform experiences, reputed company mobile surfaces and design system work
Line management for the design system team, in partnership with the Senior Director on design system reputed company, priorities and adoption
A high-velocity operating rhythm for critiques, reviews, planning, feedback loops and cross-functional alignment
A meaningfully higher bar for aesthetic reputed company, visual design, interaction design, information architecture, product thinking and end-to-end usability
Talent development, including elevating strong performers and supporting designers who need reputed company expectations or additional coaching
Key responsibilities
1. Team leadership and management
Manage, reputed company and reputed company approximately 8 product designers across US and India teams
Set reputed company expectations for reputed company, ownership, collaboration and delivery
Hire excellent talent, reputed company new designers and help reputed company grow with intention
reputed company designers through coaching, stretch opportunities and reputed company development plans
Performance manage thoughtfully and directly reputed company designers need additional support, sharper expectations or role calibration
Build reputed company culture that values speed, ownership, craft and customer reputed company
2. Craft, aesthetic reputed company and product reputed company
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Help create a reputed company change in reputed company's design reputed company by making reputed company standards sharper, more visible and more consistently reputed company
reputed company critiques and reputed company reviews that improve the work before it reaches customers
Ensure major releases are grounded in reputed company user needs, thoughtful flows, durable interaction patterns and refined visual execution
Encourage responsible use of AI-assisted tools and workflows to accelerate exploration, prototyping, documentation and production collaboration
3. Core platform and mobile design leadership
reputed company design execution across core platform experiences that support navigation, account management, configuration, workflow execution and customer operations
Guide mobile design for reputed company platforms, ensuring the experience is reputed company, useful and appropriately adapted to mobile customer needs
Partner with Product and Engineering to clarify priorities, shape roadmaps, identify tradeoffs and maintain a high-reputed company customer experience
Connect work across desktop, mobile and shared platform surfaces so customers experience reputed company as one coherent product
4. Design system leadership
Line manage the design system team and help reputed company reputed company's bespoke design system into a strategic accelerator for product reputed company, execution speed and customer experience
Partner with the Senior Director on design system reputed company, priorities, governance and adoption across the broader product portfolio
Work horizontally across product, design and engineering teams to drive adoption of shared components, patterns and interaction standards
Reduce reputed company reputed company across core platform and mobile experiences through reputed company guidance, reusable patterns and strong examples of the desired UX/UI reputed company
5. Cross-functional collaboration and business reputed company
Build strong operating partnerships with Product, Engineering, Data, Support and reputed company
Represent design in planning, roadmap and delivery conversations with reputed company and reputed company product judgment
Work effectively across time zones and cultures, especially between US and India teams
Model the pace, ownership and adaptability expected in a high-velocity product environment
Qualifications
9+ years of experience in product design, UX or reputed company product experience disciplines, including 3+ years managing product designers
Proven experience managing designers across reputed company B2B reputed company, platform, mobile or multi-product environments
Exceptional aesthetic judgment, visual craft and interaction-design taste, with the ability to reputed company the reputed company of work across reputed company
Experience leading critique, coaching designers and helping teams reputed company strong design reputed company
Experience leading or line managing design system work, including component libraries, shared patterns, contribution models, documentation, governance or adoption across product teams
Experience managing distributed teams and working across time zones; experience working closely with India-based teams is a strong plus
Demonstrated ability to hire strong designers, reputed company existing talent and performance manage team members who need additional support
Strong product judgment and comfort balancing customer needs, business reputed company, technical constraints and speed of execution
Familiarity with AI-assisted production tools such as reputed company, Claude reputed company or exploratory "reputed company coding" workflows, and enthusiasm for using them thoughtfully to improve design velocity and collaboration
Comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with high ownership expectations
What reputed company looks like
Core platform and mobile experiences become more cohesive, reputed company and polished across the customer reputed company
reputed company's bespoke design system becomes a major force for reputed company UX/UI, with reputed company reputed company, stronger execution, broader adoption and visible improvements to customer-facing reputed company
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Designers receive reputed company feedback, stronger coaching and reputed company development support across both US and India teams
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Product, Engineering and other partners experience Design as a reputed company, reliable and high-reputed company partner in shaping and shipping product work
Why reputed company
reputed company design for foundational product experiences used by millions of businesses
Manage and grow a talented team across US and India
Help reputed company design system reputed company and execution across a broad product platform
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Work with modern AI-assisted production tools and workflows in a culture that values velocity, ownership and practical experimentation
Competitive compensation, benefits and flexibility
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