Design Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Design or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in UX Design, Product Design, Interaction Design, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or developing designers or other creative professionals.
• Strong understanding of user-centered Design practices and ability to provide thoughtful design guidance, feedback, and critique.
• Strong organizational and operational skills, including managing competing priorities, assessing capacity, coordinating work across teams, and making sound decisions about Design resource utilization.
• Demonstrated ability to build effective working relationships with Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional partners.
• Experience translating ambiguous stakeholder input into structured requirements or documented workflows, and willingness to move between managing team work and personally executing it.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, including ability to create clarity and alignment across perspectives and organizational levels.
• Ability to work effectively amid changing priorities, ambiguity, and evolving ways of working.
• Demonstrated experience designing AI-driven experiences, including designing for uncertainty, trust, transparency, and human decision-making.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools to augment Design work, improve productivity, or explore new approaches to Design.
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and adapting to new tools, technologies, and approaches to Design.
• Ability to provide a dedicated, secure work area and high-speed internet access, connectivity, and office setup and maintenance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a collaborative, cross-functional product development environment.
• Experience with design systems, shared Design practices, standards, or guidelines.
• Experience with accessibility or inclusive Design practices.
• Experience coordinating Design work across multiple products, projects, or teams.
• Experience developing team capabilities through learning, experimentation, and application in real work.
• Experience helping teams or organizations navigate changes in processes, tools, technology, or ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day operational leadership for the Design organization, ensuring work is appropriately staffed, prioritized, and progressing.
• Monitor capacity, workload, priorities, and commitments across the portfolio; identify risks, conflicts, and resource gaps and work with partners to resolve them.
• Clarify what the team is working on, why it matters, and what is needed to move work forward.
• Step in to execute Design work directly when capacity constraints or urgent timelines require it.
• Help designers and cross-functional partners navigate shifting priorities, dependencies, and competing demands.
• Improve team processes, tools, and ways of working to support efficient, high-quality Design delivery.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to improve Design workflows and integrate Design into planning, prioritization, and delivery.
• Identify opportunities to reduce friction, improve collaboration, and make Design easier to engage with.
• Establish and reinforce shared Design practices, standards, and expectations.
• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop the team, supporting meaningful work and growth.
• Set clear expectations; provide regular feedback, performance management, and career development support.
• Identify individual and team capability gaps and create opportunities for learning, experimentation, and applying new skills through real work.
• Support designers in developing skills for AI-native product development, including new tools, techniques, and ways of working.
• Foster curiosity, continuous learning, collaboration, accountability, and adaptability.
• Build an inclusive team culture across geographic and organizational boundaries.
• Recruit and retain Design talent and contribute to staffing and organizational planning.
• Recognize and develop emerging leaders and create opportunities for team members to expand their impact.
• Build working relationships with Product, Engineering, and other business partners; facilitate collaboration and clarify responsibilities and expectations.
• Represent Design in cross-functional planning and prioritization, explaining capacity, needs, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
• Bring customer needs and experience considerations into cross-functional product decisions.
• Communicate Design priorities, progress, risks, and opportunities to leaders and cross-functional partners.
• Contribute to the evolution of the Experience Design organization, operating model, shared practices, and standards.
• Help advance a consistent, scalable approach to Design across products and teams.
• Support development and adoption of the design system, patterns, guidelines, and best practices.
• Document workflows, processes, and decision points that support consistent execution; provide input into prioritization and sequencing of work.
• Stay current with emerging Design practices, AI capabilities, and AI-native product development, and translate relevant opportunities into practical team practices.
• Model adaptability and help the team navigate changes in tools, processes, technology, and organizational priorities.
• Hire, develop, coach, lead, and retain talent while improving a team culture that applies best practices to support internal and external customer satisfaction.
• Complete responsibilities outlined in annual performance reviews and/or goal setting.
• Complete special projects and other assigned duties.
• Perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k) savings plan
• Paid family leave
• 9 paid holidays per year
• 17–27 days of Paid Time Off per year, depending on level and length of service