Group Manager, Product Design - Back Office

Accountabilities:

• • Hire, develop, coach, and mentor a high-performing product design team, establishing clear expectations and supporting individual and collective growth.
  • Lead significant design initiatives from vision and strategy through execution, ensuring solutions address meaningful customer and business needs.
  • Contribute to product strategy and roadmap development by bringing strong design perspectives, user insights, and data-driven recommendations.
  • Establish lean design standards, processes, and practices that enable teams to move quickly without compromising quality or user experience.
  • Remain hands-on across research, interface design, prototyping, user journeys, personas, UX measurement, and other key design artifacts.
  • Use quantitative and qualitative insights to evaluate design effectiveness, identify opportunities, and measure product impact.
  • Integrate AI-assisted design tools into everyday workflows, using generative exploration, rapid prototyping, and emerging technologies to accelerate high-quality outcomes.
  • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Data Science, and other cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive and inclusive user experiences.
  • Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the organization and effectively communicate design rationale, trade-offs, priorities, and recommendations.
  • Support distributed teams through strong asynchronous communication, collaboration, and effective coordination across time zones.
  • Drive accessibility and inclusive design practices, ensuring diverse user needs are considered throughout the product development lifecycle.
  • Foster a healthy, collaborative, low-ego design culture built around experimentation, thoughtful decision-making, continuous learning, and measurable customer impact.

  Requirements

  • 5+ years of product design experience within a SaaS, enterprise software, or similarly complex technology environment.
  • Demonstrated experience managing a product design team of approximately 3–10 designers or leading multiple design groups.
  • Strong hands-on capabilities across user research, interaction and interface design, prototyping, UX strategy, and design systems or processes.
  • Proven ability to lead complex design projects from strategic vision through detailed execution and delivery.
  • Experience producing high-quality design outcomes at scale and evaluating impact through both quantitative and qualitative methods.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted design tools such as Figma Make, Claude, Cursor, or comparable technologies, together with genuine curiosity about emerging AI-enabled design practices.
  • Strong strategic thinking and the ability to connect detailed design decisions with broader product and business objectives.
  • Excellent coaching and people-leadership skills, including the ability to provide direct, constructive feedback and create meaningful development opportunities.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
  • Experience working successfully with globally distributed teams and across multiple time zones, with strong asynchronous communication habits.
  • Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-changing environments while maintaining focus, design rigor, and delivery momentum.
  • Commitment to accessibility, inclusive design, and creating experiences that serve diverse user needs.
  • A collaborative, low-ego approach combined with sound judgment, curiosity, creativity, and a bias toward measurable impact.

  Benefits

  • Competitive base salary with an estimated U.S. range of $185,300–$297,400 USD, depending on location, experience, skills, qualifications, and performance.
  • Higher salary range of $198,200–$297,400 USD for eligible locations including CA, CT, DC, MD, MA, NJ, NY, VA, and WA.
  • Annual bonus and equity opportunities as part of the total compensation package.
  • Fully remote work flexibility within the United States.
  • Flexible time off and support for autonomous working arrangements.
  • Comprehensive onboarding, leadership development, learning opportunities, and career-growth programs.
  • Recognition programs, including peer-nominated awards and performance recognition.
  • Company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, including 100% employer-paid options and substantial dependent coverage.
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options.
  • 401(k) matching and telehealth benefits, including access to One Medical.
  • Parental leave and family-building support, including fertility, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement.
  • Additional life-stage benefits such as maternity support, breast milk shipping, pet insurance, legal advisory services, and financial planning tools.
  • Inclusive culture that values individuality, diverse perspectives, accessibility, and equitable opportunities.
  • Opportunity to influence a modern design practice and use emerging AI capabilities to accelerate product innovation.