Product Design Manager

About the role

The Senior Staff Design Manager will lead a team of 6-7 product designers alongside another senior design manager, representing the design leadership bench at Patreon. This role is based in New York or San Francisco and is open to those who are able to be in-office 3 days per week on a hybrid work model.

What you’ll need

• You’ve shipped distinctive consumer software where design was central to the product's market position, not just polish on a working thing, across a range of products or surfaces rather than a single hero project
• You lead by example in the craft, whether in Figma, prototyping, or production code
• You're a proven manager with success across different sizes and shapes of design teams, and you've operated across different configurations (startup, scale, public) rather than running one playbook
• You have real AI fluency: you use tools daily and have driven measurable, team-wide transformation in velocity, quality, or scope
• You have a track record of building and holding high talent density: top designers choose to work for you and stay, and the people you've hired and developed have gone on to become strong leaders themselves
• You're a strategic thought partner across functions, oriented toward shared outcomes rather than territory
• You're a strong external voice for your team's work, brand, and craft