Manager Product Design

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the strategic advocate for design within empowered product teams.
• Guide designers in creating human-centered experiences that simplify complexity and build trust.
• Experience Impact: Deliver intuitive, consistent, and accessible designs that increase customer satisfaction and adoption.
• Design System Acceleration: Manage the design system as an internal product to accelerate the adoption of coherent, accessible patterns, treating empowered product teams as the primary customer.
• User Advocacy: Champion user needs and usability throughout discovery and delivery.
• Ensure design decisions are grounded in evidence and aligned with measurable outcomes.
• Customer Insight Integration: Embed real user data and research into product decisions to de-risk design and improve relevance. Champion UXR rigor to ensure insights are valid and actionable.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Act as an equal partner to Product and Engineering in shaping product vision and strategy.
• Participate in discovery, scope definition, and trade-off decisions to balance experience quality with delivery velocity.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Ensure design trade-offs are informed, deliberate, and transparent across Product and Engineering.
• System Thinking: Translate insights into design systems that scale across products and platforms.
• Maintain consistency and clarity in the connected-mobility ecosystem.
• Team Development: Coach and mentor designers, fostering craft, curiosity, and collaboration.
• Build a culture where creativity thrives and design accelerates impact.
• Coaches designers to connect craft decisions to customer and business outcomes.
• Communicates, models, and architects collaboration habits that solidify Design as an equal peer with Product and Engineering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in UX/UI or product design, including leadership roles.
• Expertise in design systems, user research, and evidence-based design practices.
• Experience in SaaS or IoT platform companies, serving as a design leader within empowered product teams.
• Proven ability to translate complex challenges into simple, human-centered experiences.
• Skilled in guiding teams through discovery and delivery in cross-functional environments.
• Strong communicator and advocate for design’s strategic role.
• Passion for driving measurable impact on trust, usability, and adoption.