Lead and Grow a High-Performing Design Team
Manage and support a team of product designers across Clinical Experience and Growth. Provide coaching, feedback, and career development to help designers expand their impact and ownership. Foster a culture of curiosity, autonomy, and thoughtful problem-solving.
Shape Product Direction with Cross-Functional Partners
Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, Clinical experts, and Go-To-Market teams to shape the roadmap and product direction for these areas. Help translate complex clinical workflows and business goals into clear, user-centered product strategies.
Ensure High-Quality Design Across Complex Systems
Ensure your team delivers thoughtful, high-quality design work across complex workflows that span patient care, lab collaboration, and practice growth. Provide design guidance and feedback at key moments to help teams move quickly while maintaining a high bar for usability and clarity.
Advocate for Doctors and Their Workflows
Champion the perspective of dental practices in product decisions. Ensure that the tools we build reduce friction for doctors, support confident patient conversations, and help practices operate more effectively.
Connect Strategy to Execution
Help your team move from early exploration and vision to concrete product outcomes. Guide designers in framing problems, forming hypotheses, and delivering iterative improvements that move key business and user metrics forward.
Build Strong Cross-Team Alignment
Clinical workflows and growth experiences often span multiple parts of the platform. You’ll work across teams to ensure design decisions are consistent, scalable, and aligned with the broader product system.
Contribute to the Design Organization
As a design manager, you’ll also help shape the broader design organization—participating in hiring, refining design processes, and contributing to how design operates and grows at Dandy.

Requirements

7+ years of product design experience, with at least 2+ years leading or managing product designers
Experience guiding teams through complex product areas, resulting in designs that had impacts against company goals and KRs
Strong product thinking and ability to partner with Product and Engineering leaders on roadmap direction
Demonstrated ability to coach designers and help them grow their craft, strategic thinking, and autonomy
Experience balancing business goals, technical constraints, and user needs
Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment skills
Ability to operate comfortably in ambiguous problem spaces and help teams move toward clarity

Benefits

healthcare
dental
mental health support
parental planning resources
retirement savings options
generous paid time off

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

product designuser-centered product strategiesdesign guidanceiterative improvementscomplex workflowsdesign processescoachingstrategic thinkingroadmap directionimpact measurement

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationstakeholder alignmentproblem-solvingteam managementcoachingautonomycuriositycollaborationadaptability