Manager, Product Design

Carvana • Los Angeles, CA

21h • Onsite

About The Position

As a Manager, Product Design, you lead multiple Product Designers and initiatives across complex product areas, operating at a platform and organizational scale. This is a senior people-leadership role responsible for elevating design quality, scaling design impact, and developing high-performing design teams that deliver measurable business and user outcomes.
You balance strategic vision with operational excellence — shaping design strategy, influencing cross-functional priorities, and ensuring cohesive, high-quality experiences across Carvana’s ecosystem. You are deeply embedded with product, engineering, and business leadership, and you advocate relentlessly for user-centered, system-level thinking.
You are comfortable operating with urgency, navigating ambiguity, and making high-stakes decisions. You set a high bar for yourself and others, and you lead with clarity, empathy, and accountability.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Product Design or UX
• 3+ years in a formal people management role
• Proven success leading multiple teams and complex, cross-platform initiatives
• Deep expertise in design systems, UX strategy, and the product development lifecycle
• Demonstrated ability to influence strategy and outcomes at an organizational level
• Strong communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills
• Operate with a product-wide and platform-level mindset
• Balance strategic thinking with operational rigor and detail
• Be proactive, adaptable, and empathetic in leadership approach
• Stay current with trends in product design, UX leadership, and organizational design
• Embrace AI tools, emerging technologies, and new ways of working to accelerate and amplify design impact
• Lead with curiosity, creativity, and a strong sense of ownership
• Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand English.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple Product Designers and design initiatives, ensuring alignment between user needs, business objectives, and technical constraints
• Operate at a platform and organizational level, influencing roadmaps, priorities, and strategic decisions across product clusters
• Define team goals, success metrics, and outcomes in partnership with product, engineering, and senior leadership
• Advocate for design as a driver of measurable impact across customer experience, efficiency, and innovation
• Own and drive design efforts on the most complex, high-visibility initiatives with broad organizational impact
• Anticipate future product and organizational needs, positioning the design team through scalable frameworks, systems, and processes

Benefits

• Full-Time Salary Position with a competitive salary.
• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits.
• 401K with company match.
• A multitude of perks including student loan payments, discounts on vehicles, benefits for your pets, and much more.
• A great wellness program to keep you healthy and happy both physically and mentally.
• Access to opportunities to expand your skillset and share your knowledge with others across the organization.
• A company culture of promotions from within, with a start-up atmosphere allowing for varied and rapid career development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed