Product Design Manager
Sydecar
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $180,000 per year
About the role
- Own and Evolve the End-to-End UX
- Lead the evolution of the entire user experience for deal leads, investors, and internal operations teams
- Personally drive design on high-impact initiatives, from discovery through delivery
- Simplify complex, regulated workflows into clear, intuitive, and experiences that create trust for our customers
- Set and maintain a high bar for design quality while operating with startup speed
- Research-Led Design Leadership
- Lead user research as a first-class input to product strategy and design decisions
- Partner closely with Product Managers to define problems, test assumptions, and validate solutions
- Act as a strong voice of the customer in roadmap and prioritization discussions as well as on specific initiatives
- Synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights into clear, actionable direction
- Design Systems & UI Foundations
- Lead the adoption and evolution of design systems, shared UI components, and design libraries
- Partner with Engineering and Product to ensure consistent implementation across the product
- Define standards, guidelines, and best practices that enable speed without sacrificing quality
- Balance systemization with flexibility as the product evolves
- Design for Impact in a Regulated Environment
- Work with SMEs to balance regulatory, compliance, and operational requirements with excellent UX
- Design systems and flows that support trust, accuracy, and clarity for investors and deal organizers
- Make confident tradeoffs when constrained, and communicate them clearly
- Use data to inform decisions and optimize for outcomes such as conversion, activation, and retention
- Build and Lead a High-Ownership Team
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of Product Designers
- Provide direct feedback and clear direction to keep work moving forward
- Foster a culture of trust, collaboration, speed, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Help designers grow both their craft and product thinking
Requirements
- 7+ years of product design experience, including at least 2 years experience leading or managing designers
- Strong demonstration in building design teams and scalable design processes
- Exceptionally strong hands-on design skills, with a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX ownership and redesigns
- Deep experience leading and applying user research to drive strategy and execution
- Strong experience designing complex workflows, multi-step processes, or systems-heavy products
- Strong experience in design systems and UI libraries
- Strong preference for experience working in regulated markets, especially fintech, capital markets, or private venture
- Ability to balance compliance and regulatory needs with delivering a best-in-class customer experience
- Experience with consumer and/or SMB products strongly preferred
- Data-informed, outcome-oriented designer with a bias toward execution
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and energized by early-stage environments.
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Offers Bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
end-to-end UXuser researchdesign systemsUI librariescomplex workflowsmulti-step processesdata-informed designproduct designdesign qualitydesign leadership
Soft Skills
team managementmentoringcollaborationcommunicationtrust buildingaccountabilitycontinuous improvementproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingadaptability