Senior Manager, Product Design
Niche
full-time
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Location: Arizona, Colorado • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $170,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead and inspire two teams of product designers working across multiple pods in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Shape design strategy both on and off platform, including SEO, lifecycle email, SMS, etc.
- Deeply understand how we package and sell the leads the Core Business pod helps generate; bring internal tools to life with the Shared Platform pod that make our customer-facing teams more effective at generating revenue
- Ensure that our efforts across teams fit together to invent and deliver coherent product experiences, from design system details, to workflows, all the way up to mental models
- Mentor and grow your reports, get hands-on as needed, providing the expertise, direction, and support needed for high performance and major impact
- Establish strong partnerships with Product and Engineering teams, foster joint ownership and effective collaboration, and work closely with our partners in GTM
- Contribute to the product strategy and roadmap, create the design vision for your domain, advocate for user outcomes and a world-class user experience
- Travel for in-person collaboration sessions and team building events 2-4 times per year (bonus)
- Short-term milestones: learn company and teams; assess design systems and team capabilities; lead first major design initiative within 3 months; implement new design processes and practices; within 6-12 months shape AI-first product experiences, establish design system improvements, and drive measurable impact on engagement, lead generation, conversion, and partner success
Requirements
- 10+ years experience in product design, with 3+ years of successfully building and managing design teams
- Experience shaping AI-first products, including but not limited to LLM-powered features
- Proven ability to connect design strategy to business impact, especially in content design, search/discovery, or user acquisition and activation
- Experience partnering successfully with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing/Brand; launches go well because you shepherd them across the finish line
- Able to uphold a high standard of complex design quality and craftsmanship in your team’s work
- Able to think in systems, lead designers to transform consumer experiences and orchestrate across multiple surfaces, from mobile apps to web, email, and beyond
- Deep curiosity about motivations and barriers to people pursuing education, particularly higher ed; prior experience in education or edtech is helpful but not required
- Bonus if you have experience with multi-sided marketplaces, or SaaS products that are heavy on content and data
- Bonus if you’ve launched products for Gen Z/Alpha and understand how young people use the internet
- Niche will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future for this opening
- We are currently hiring in states where we currently have employees: AZ, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MO, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, DC, WV