Project Design Manager
Cushman & Wakefield
Principal Product Designer
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full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $200,000 - $235,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead the design of end-to-end product experiences across our payments platform, with a focus on high-leverage, high-complexity areas.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to deeply understand client needs, business context, and technical constraints.
- Develop and refine user flows, wireframes, working wireframes, and high-fidelity designs, using modern tools and rapidly iterating with stakeholders.
- Leverage AI and generative tools to explore interaction models and increase design velocity, bringing creative thinking to how AI is embedded in our product.
- Conduct lightweight research and validation, either independently or in partnership with product teams, to ground your decisions in user evidence.
- Define, contribute to, and evolve our design system and standards, ensuring visual and interaction consistency across surfaces while championing best practices in UX, accessibility, and usability.
- Present design strategy and execution clearly to executive stakeholders and cross-functional partners, driving alignment and action.
- Working with ProductOps, define and evolve the design intake and collaboration processes that ensure timely, high-quality design involvement across the product development lifecycle.
- Act as a mentor and coach to other designers and cross-functional peers, modeling high-quality thinking, craft, and collaboration.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing digital products with increasing scope and complexity, ideally in B2B or fintech environments.
- Demonstrated ability to lead strategic initiatives and influence product direction in cross-functional settings.
- Deep expertise in UX/CX and interaction design, coupled with a sharp visual design sensibility.
- Strong systems thinker who can abstract complexity and design intuitive solutions across multiple surfaces and user types.
- AI fluency: familiarity with current design tools, and a clear POV on how AI can enhance product UX/CX and workflow.
- Familiarity with front-end frameworks and design system integration processes.
- Experience working independently and navigating ambiguity; able to align cross-functional teams without relying on hierarchy or formal authority.
- Clear, persuasive communication skills for articulating design rationale and engaging stakeholders across disciplines and levels.
Benefits
- Fast- paced and professional work culture
- Stock options with standard startup vesting - 1 year cliff; 4 years total
- $50 monthly communication expense stipend to go towards your phone/internet bill
- $250 stipend to enhance your WFH setup
- Reimbursement for peripheral equipment: monitor (up to $400), keyboard and mouse (up to $200)
- Premium medical benefits including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees)
- Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
- Paid parental bonding leave
- Paid sick leave, jury duty, bereavement
- 401k plan
- Flexible Time Off (our team members typically take off ~3-4 weeks per year)
- Volunteer Time Off
- 13 scheduled holidays
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
UX designCX designinteraction designvisual designuser flowswireframeshigh-fidelity designsdesign system integrationAI fluencyfront-end frameworks
Soft skills
leadershipstrategic initiativeinfluencesystems thinkingproblem-solvingcommunicationmentoringcollaborationadaptabilitypersuasion
