Senior Manager, Product Design

Responsibilities: Set the design strategy across multiple products, industries, and workflows to align near-term delivery with long-term priorities Lead and develop an exceptional design team, providing direction, feedback, and autonomy Identify shared user needs and interaction patterns to create reusable components and patterns Lead AI-native design and delivery, establishing workflows and quality for AI-powered product development Partner with product and engineering as an integrated team to influence priorities and decisions from the start Stay connected to customers through user research and direct engagement to ground decisions in real user needs Communicate design strategy and build alignment with senior leadership across product, engineering, and business Remain hands-on by contributing to design work when it matters and tackling complex challenges

Key requirements: Proven experience leading product design teams (minimum of 2 years managing 5+ designers) Strong background in shaping modern enterprise SaaS or business-user-facing products Ability to establish design strategy across multiple products or domains Deep systems thinking with experience evolving design systems and reusable patterns Hands-on experience designing with AI-forward processes (using Claude, Code, Codex) and delivering working code Builder mindset with experience shipping production code alongside engineers Strong cross-functional leadership and influence across product, engineering, and stakeholders Strong customer empathy and emphasis on user research to inform design decisions Clear communication and ability to align leadership around design vision Comfort operating in ambiguity and prioritizing in a fast-evolving tech environment leadership communication empathy AI-native design design systems familiarity with Claude, Codex, Code (AI tools)