What You'll Do
- Manage and develop a team of product designers across one or more product areas: setting expectations, running regular 1:1s, delivering honest feedback, and building individualized growth plans.
- Own the quality of design output from your team. You review work, lead critiques, and ensure what ships meets the standard, not just the deadline.
- Drive problem-solving across your team's portfolio. You help designers frame problems well, navigate ambiguity, and make good trade-offs under real constraints.
- Partner with Product Management and Engineering leadership to align design investment with product priorities. You're in the room where scope, sequence, and trade-offs are decided.
- Build and support a high-functioning team: hiring well, onboarding deliberately, creating psychological safety, and holding people accountable to high standards at the same time.
- Champion design system adoption within your team and ensure designers contribute back patterns and learnings that strengthen the broader system.
- Model the team's values and operating principles in how you lead,
communicate, and make decisions, especially in challenging situations.
- Connect your team's impact to organizational strategy. You can articulate why the work matters in business terms, not just design terms.
What You Bring
- 6–10 years of product design experience, with at least 2 years in a people management role leading designers in enterprise or B2B SaaS environments.
- Strong design craft and judgment. You don't need to be the best individual contributor on the team, but you need to know outstanding work when you see it and be able to coach toward it.
- Experience building and maintaining high-performing teams: hiring, onboarding, developing talent, managing performance, and creating a culture where people do their best work.
- Ability to balance people leadership with delivery. You care about your team's growth and you care about shipping quality work on time. You don't sacrifice one