Manager, Product Design (Hybrid)
About The Position
As a Product Design Manager, you'll ensure exceptional design outcomes while building strong cross-disciplinary partnerships and supporting your team's capacity planning, wellness, and professional growth. By evolving team practices, you'll amplify impact while cultivating excellence through critiques and thoughtful guidance. You’ll partner closely with other managers to coordinate cross-product group collaborations and to help grow the design practice at CrowdStrike. As a part of a global Product Design team, you’ll also engage deeply with product managers, and the engineering team to deliver the best possible experience. About CrowdStrike Design: At CrowdStrike, product design is a partner with product management and engineering leads. This means design owns the user experience solution for any project. We look for full stack designers and managers who can bring leadership from the conception phase through the final rollout. Having strong team leaders to guide and support the design teams through the process is key to success. Design at CrowdStrike drives innovation, inspiration, and the future of the product. Craftsmanship, attention to detail, flexibility, and love for great products binds us together as a team.
Requirements
- Strong leadership skills working with designers, PM/Eng partners, and other managers.
- Servant leadership, fostering teamwork.
- Excellent communication (written and verbal).
- Hands-on enterprise B2B SaaS product design expertise.
- Flexible context-switcher (people/resourcing for multiple projects).
- Self-driven, growth-oriented, open to feedback.
- Data-driven decision-making.
- Ability to create alignment among stakeholders.
- Growth-mindset.
- Outstanding collaboration in a fast-paced, highly distributed environment.
- At least 3 years of people management experience.
- Online portfolio.
- Ability to work from our Arlington office 2+ days per week.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in platform level design.
- Experience in product design for Cloud infrastructure, ERP, or other data-heavy SaaS product areas.
- Knowledge of the cybersecurity industry.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of distributed team designers, inspiring them to deliver world-class user interfaces for products in our platform.
- Partner with peers in design, engineering, and product management to prioritize, track, triage, organize roadmap priorities, and manage team allocation accordingly.
- Communicate and socialize design objectives and principles to the broader team.
- Mentor and coach designers within and outside your squad to foster accountability, elevate design craft, and grow their professional careers.
- Optimize team processes and structures to enhance strategic influence, handoff quality, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Foster design excellence through consistent design reviews, constructive feedback, and cohesive solution development.
- Develop knowledge of all CrowdStrike products and services to identify areas of overlap and collaboration.
- Expertise in end-to-end design workflows and deliverables to effectively coach and guide designers at every phase of work.
Benefits
- Market leader in compensation and equity awards
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
- Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
- Paid parental and adoption leaves
- Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
- Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
- Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
- Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
