Product Design Manager - Sigma
About The Position
Sigma is seeking a seasoned, driven Product Design Manager to lead a team of designers building exceptional user experiences for AI-first and cloud-native products. As the first Design Manager, this role will set design strategy, drive execution, mentor designers, and foster a culture of excellence and innovation. The manager is expected to balance high-level vision with detailed, hands-on design execution in a fast-paced, collaborative maker culture. The role leads a multidisciplinary product design team and the Design System, translating complex data workflows into accessible interfaces for non-technical users building apps, workflows, and agents. It partners closely with Design, Product, Engineering, and Research to deliver intuitive experiences that address customer needs and align with the company’s brand, vision, and strategic goals. The manager also establishes design practices and processes, coaches designers, and champions an empathetic, iterative, user-centered culture with measurable impact. The position is hybrid in San Francisco, near the Financial District South/SoMa border, with an onsite expectation of four days per week. Base salary is $230,000–$280,000+, depending on experience, with an approximately $350,000 equity package vesting over four years.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in product or interaction design, including at least 1 year in a team leadership or management role.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity, adapt quickly to change, and lead initiatives with limited guidance.
- A track record of designing and delivering complex digital products.
- A hands-on approach that frequently incorporates AI into the design process for both prototyping and building.
- Strong foundational interaction and visual design skills, attention to detail, and a systems-thinking mindset.
- Experience driving design strategy and vision-setting, and collaborating cross-functionally.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working in agile, fast-moving teams and shipping production-ready designs.
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing complex digital products in the AI field.
- Code and data literacy.
- Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end case studies, design leadership and hands-on practice, design thinking and problem-solving, management of complexity, team leadership, collaboration, mentoring, and alignment with business objectives and user value.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary product design team, coaching designers on using AI to push changes directly into code.
- Translate complex data workflows into simple, elegant, usable interfaces that help non-technical users build apps, workflows, and agents.
- Establish design best practices and processes that improve the quality, craft, and efficiency of design output.
- Lead and advance the Design System.
- Collaborate with Design, Product, Engineering, and Research to deliver seamless, intuitive experiences that solve customer problems.
- Ensure design work aligns with the company’s brand, vision, and strategic goals while advancing innovation in data visualization.
- Provide designers with critical feedback, guidance, and coaching to support their craft and career development.
- Champion a user-centered design approach and help build a culture rooted in empathy, iteration, and measurable impact.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
