Senior Product Design Manager

Role Overview

• Set a high bar for craft by shaping developer tools and design systems that are simple, intuitive, and powerful.
• Champion a builder culture where teams explore ideas early and often to spark alignment and push the work forward.
• Bring real experience with AI, from shipping features to experimenting with side projects, and use that knowledge to shape how we design with it.
• Define operating principles for how design tooling and design systems scale across multiple product pillars.
• Establish clear success metrics tied to activation, extensibility, and long-term platform growth.
• Shape roadmap decisions by grounding design strategy in business impact and customer insight.
• Partner closely with engineering by co-creating solutions, understanding technical tradeoffs, and building trust across disciplines.
• Communicate clearly with senior leaders by framing design systems and developer tools as critical to adoption, growth, and long-term product strategy.
• Foster a builder culture that is curious, experimental, and playful while grounding the team in rigor and design excellence.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
• Have a minimum of 10 years of experience in product design, including at least 3 years managing and leading teams.
• Experience shipping AI-powered workflows or designing systems that incorporate LLMs, code generation, or agentic automation.
• Demonstrate strong systems thinking — comfortable designing primitives, not just features.
• Are energized by designer and developer tooling that enables creativity, ingenuity, and empowerment for individuals and teams building web experiences.
• Demonstrate a portfolio of shipped software products that made a significant impact on business and customer goals.
• Have mastery of organizational influence and collaborative execution in ambiguous, complex product environments at high-growth companies.
• Balance big-picture vision with attention to detail, ensuring the products you ship consistently exceed expectations.
• Care deeply about the impact of high-quality software experiences on users, and you are fluent in connecting design work to business strategy and tangible growth.
• Are an engaging storyteller with strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
• Have experience building products in a remote or distributed team environment.
• Also bring one or more of these qualities: a growth mindset, motivation to improve continuously, comfort with ambiguity, a love of the craft, and optimism about the future.
• Stay curious and open to growth — actively building fluency in emerging technologies like AI to unlock creativity, accelerate progress, and amplify impact.

Tech Stack

• Spark

Benefits

• Ownership in what you help build.
• Health coverage that actually covers you.
• Support for every stage of family life.
• Time off that’s actually off.
• Wellness for the whole you.
• Invest in your future.
• Monthly stipends that flex with your life.
• Bonus for building together.