Product Design Manager

We're looking for a Product Design Manager who can lead by doing someone equally comfortable defining strategy, mentoring designers, and getting into Figma to solve hard problems. You've spent 8-10 years in product design for SaaS platforms and products, including leadership experience in SaaS or AI-driven products. You can zoom out to align design direction with business outcomes and zoom in to deliver pixel-perfect interfaces that inspire the team.

You'll report to the Design Director or the VP of Product Design and lead a team of product designers while maintaining individual contributor responsibilities on key initiatives.

As a player-coach, you'll shape both the craft and culture of design. You'll guide the team through ambiguity, set a high bar for quality, and balance creative vision with execution speed. You'll use research, data, and storytelling to influence product strategy, ensuring design plays a central role in how we build, launch, and scale.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and design. Own end-to-end design work for high-impact product areas while mentoring and managing a team of designers.
• Coach talent. Provide feedback, guidance, and growth paths for designers at different levels; run structured design critiques and career conversations.
• Shape direction. Partner with PM and Engineering leadership to define product vision, priorities, and design principles.
• Raise the bar. Establish and maintain design quality standards across all surfacesweb, mobile, and system components.
• Drive systems thinking. Contribute to and evolve the design system, ensuring scalability and consistency.
• Influence outcomes. Use qualitative and quantitative insights to inform decisions and validate impact.
• Operate hands-on. Actively contribute design deliverablesflows, prototypes, and visual systemsespecially for complex or strategic projects.
• Champion accessibility and inclusion. Embed inclusive design practices into every stage of the design process.
• Evangelise design. Represent the design function in leadership forums, cross-team planning, and stakeholder reviews.

Requirements:

• 8-10 years of product design experience, with at least 2 years leading or mentoring other designers.
• A strong portfolio showing breadth across user research, interaction design, and visual craft for SaaS or data-rich products.
• Proven ability to balance strategy, execution, and people leadership.
• Experience designing and shipping complex, multi-surface products in collaboration with product and engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of design systems, accessibility, and scalability.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, iterative environments; bias for action without sacrificing quality.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, you can advocate for design to executives and engineers alike.
• Familiarity with AI-powered design and intelligent interface design is a must.
• Empathy, humility, and a team-first mindset.