Product Design Manager
BeingUser
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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SeniorLead
About the role
- Create design assets including, but not limited to, customer user journeys, wireframes, visual designs, service blueprints, prototypes, and hi-fidelity detailed designs that capture and convey behaviours and design implementation details.
- Advocate for user-centered design by prioritising user research and data-driven insights over subjective feedback, ensuring design decisions are rooted in user needs and behaviours.
- Undertake thoughtful, iterative user research to validate product concepts and hypotheses early and frequently.
- Provide clear guidance, inspiration, mentorship, coaching, feedback, and advocate for both craft and career development of the designers you manage.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, content strategists, designers, and researchers to refine, iterate on, and validate design solutions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing delightful user experiences and a portfolio showing your processes and deliverables.
- Minimum 3+ years of formal people management experience, including performance management, goal setting, and career development for direct reports.
- Demonstrated experience creating responsive designs aligned with UX best practices.
- Proven ability to clearly present, justify, and defend design decisions to stakeholders.
- Experience with contributing to and consuming component-based design systems.
- Expertise in Figma/FigJam and related UX design, research, and rapid prototyping tools.
- Strong attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and excellent verbal and written communication.
- Significant experience designing complex B2B applications or SaaS products using agile and iterative methods founded in continuous learning.
- Strong focus on usability, efficiency, and simplifying complex problems.
- Solid background in information design, UX heuristics, and user-centered software design.
- Natural ability to build strong relationships within your team and across functions.
- Be a team player – collaborative, humble, hardworking, egoless and willing to roll up your sleeves and do whatever it takes to help others be successful.
- Confident design leader and communicator capable of navigating dynamic, ambiguous situations.
- Relentless driven to deliver smart, delightful solutions aligned with customer needs and company goals.
- Actively seeks and offers candid, constructive feedback with curiosity, humility, and openness.
- Takes ownership, cultivating a sense of responsibility within both the design team as well as the wider product org.
Benefits
- Starting with your first year, we offer 3-weeks of vacation, wellness days, and holidays to recharge and spend time with family and friends.
- Generous benefits package.
- Monthly tech stipend.
- Recognition opportunities.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
user experience designresponsive designcomponent-based design systemsinformation designUX heuristicsuser-centered software designagile methodologiesiterative designprototypingdata-driven design
Soft skills
mentorshipcoachingcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationrelationship buildingteam playerownershipfeedbackleadership