Manager , Product Design

Overview

Join Intuit’s Consumer Group design team as a Product Design Manager leading the Design System for Turbo Tax spanning both product and marketing experiences, supporting internal teams delivering experiences for millions of consumers. In this role you will… At Intuit, our mission is to Power Prosperity for consumers and small businesses around the world. The Consumer Design System (CDS) team is a centralized team within the Consumer Group that accelerates Intuit’s mission by delivering innovative and foundational design system guidelines, tools, and services that support Intuit designers and developers across Turbo Tax.

We partner with the Intuit Design System (IDS) team who serves all of Intuit’s design systems across Turbo Tax, Quick Books, Mailchimp and many other Intuit offerings. To help us achieve this, we are seeking a systems‑thinking Product Design Manager 3 to lead the CDS team focused on enhancing our strategies to increase velocity of the designer and developer experience, and which delivers a best in class end user experience.

In this role, you'll expertly lead a team of design system designers empowering Intuit to confidently deliver beautiful, cohesive experiences.

• Lead Design Strategy & Execution Own the vision, strategy, and execution of the Consumer Design System (CDS), ensuring it meets the evolving needs of Turbo Tax customers and teams.
• Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration Expertly manage stakeholder relationships across brand, product design, product management, and engineering to identify customer problems, define requirements, track progress, and deliver high-quality solutions. Build and nurture strong partnerships that connect design and development, ensuring consistency across design and code.
• Design System Architecture & Components Define and drive the design architecture, including foundational design tokens, components, patterns, and their use across product themes and modes. Collaborate closely with brand and product design teams to ensure alignment with business goals and customer needs.
• Maintain & Scale Design Assets Create and maintain robust Figma libraries, ensuring synchronization between design and code. Evolve the design of innovative system tooling, including Figma plugins, to improve management of tokens, components, and themes.
• Enable Adoption & Community Building Advocate for design system adoption across teams, acting as a subject matter expert and providing consultation through Slack, office hours, and status updates. Foster a thriving community of designers and developers who actively contribute to and evolve the system.
• Continuous Improvement & Innovation Surface opportunities to improve processes, deliverables, and customer experiences. Balance long-term design system strategy with the need to continuously ship, iterate, and evolve. Drive improvements that increase the speed, quality, and impact of CGDS delivery across the Consumer Group.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience in system design, visual design, interaction design, product design, service design, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience managing designers.
• Practical design systems experience that shows strong ownership of or significant contribution to an existing design system.
• A clear understanding and point of view on how generative and predictive artificial intelligence will change product design, and how design systems can be cohesively applied across web and mobile to support that evolution.
• Examples of design and development advocacy that led to breakthrough adoption of design system tools, processes, or artifacts.
• Highly collaborative team spirit able to take in multiple points of view, synthesize decisions, and communicate outcomes across the organization.
• Mastery of design tools (we use Figma), agile development methodologies, and accessibility requirements, both in design and code.
• Artistry and excellence in simplifying complex ideas, identifying risks and dependencies, and delivering for customers within the constraints of technology.
• Confidence in managing through ambiguity with a track record of creative problem…