Product Design Manager

Monarch Money

2d • Remote

About The Position

Monarch is seeking a Design Manager to join our Product Design team during an exciting period of growth. Reporting directly to the Head of Design, you will lead and scale the design organization while ensuring our product maintains a high bar for usability, clarity, and craft as the company grows.
Over the next 12–18 months, this role will help build and organize the design team, improve design operations, and integrate AI-powered workflows so our product continues to feel thoughtful and cohesive even as development velocity accelerates.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in product design, with 2+ years managing or leading designers.
• Strong product design judgment with a high bar for usability, clarity, and craft.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and growing designers.
• Hands-on experience designing and shipping complex digital products (web and/or mobile).
• Comfort adopting and experimenting with AI tools to improve design workflows and productivity.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working closely with product and engineering teams.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving product environment.
• Experience working within a high-growth startup or product-led B2C/SaaS company.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working at a company known for strong product design.
• Early-stage startup experience.
• Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system.
• Familiarity with modern AI tools used in design, research, or prototyping workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the design team through hiring, mentoring, and day-to-day management.
• Allocate design resources across product initiatives, ensuring teams stay focused on the highest-impact work.
• Partner closely with product and engineering leadership to shape product direction and ensure strong design thinking throughout development.
• Establish scalable design operations and planning processes, including quarterly resource planning and cross-team coordination.
• Introduce and operationalize AI tools that help the design team move faster across research, ideation, and prototyping.

Benefits

• Work wherever you want! As a fully remote company with no central office, we want you to work wherever you are happiest and most productive. Whether that’s out of your home, a co-working space, or elsewhere.
• Competitive cash and equity compensation in a hyper growth, early stage company 🚀.
• Stipend to set-up your ideal working environment.
• Competitive Benefit Plans for employees based on your location (e.g. in the US we offer: Medical, dental and vision benefits and the ability to contribute to a 401k plan).
• Unlimited PTO.
• 3 day weekend every month! We take off the “First Friday” every month to focus on rest, recuperation, or just having fun!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees