Senior Manager, Product Design

Team Leadership and Management:

• Manage, coach, and develop approximately 8 product designers across US and India teams.
• Set clear expectations for quality, ownership, collaboration, and delivery.
• Hire excellent talent, onboard new designers, and help the team grow with intention.

Craft, Aesthetic Quality, and Product Excellence:

• Raise the bar for design output across aesthetic quality, visual craft, interaction quality, and product design thinking.
• Lead critiques and quality reviews that improve the work before it reaches customers.
• Encourage responsible use of AI-assisted tools to accelerate exploration and production.

Design System Leadership:

• Line manage the design system team and help evolve it into a strategic accelerator for product quality.
• Partner with the Senior Director on design system strategy, priorities, governance, and adoption.
• Reduce pattern drift across core platform and mobile experiences through clear guidance and reusable patterns.

Cross-Functional Collaboration and Business Impact:

• Build strong operating partnerships with Product, Engineering, Data, Support, and Customer Success.
• Represent design in planning, roadmap, and delivery conversations with clarity and sound judgment.
• Work effectively across time zones and cultures, especially between US and India teams.