Set the vision and direction for platform design in close partnership with Product and Engineering leaders. Define clear outcomes and ensure work supports long-term company goals.
Manage and mentor a team of product designers. Provide regular feedback, support career development, and help the team operate with clarity and focus.
Guide the design of foundational concepts, patterns, and frameworks that enable scalability, flexibility, and extensibility across Boulevard’s ecosystem.
Help evolve the platform to support upmarket customers with complex workflows, permissions, and operational needs.
Ensure highly complex technical and system-level problems translate into clear, intuitive, and trustworthy user experiences.
Partner closely with Engineering to ensure design intent is preserved in production and that platform decisions are durable.
Raise the quality bar across the team by improving critique, design standards, documentation, and collaboration practices.
Collaborate with other design leaders to evolve Boulevard’s design system so it supports increasing platform complexity and future growth.
Push the boundaries of what’s possible using AI-powered tooling, including MCPs, Figma Make, Claude, and other emerging systems.

Experience managing and developing product designers, including performance feedback, coaching, hiring, and elevating the team’s bar.
Strong design craft across visual, interaction, and UX, with a focus on clarity, utility, delight.
Strong systems thinking and comfort designing for scale and long-term evolution rather than one-off solutions.
Deep understanding of the full product lifecycle, from discovery and research through high-fidelity execution and delivery.
Proven ability to partner closely with Product and Engineering on technically complex initiatives.
Comfort operating in ambiguity and helping teams find clarity in fast-moving environments.
Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on guidance when the work requires it.
A strong point of view paired with openness to feedback and iteration.
Fluency in Figma, design systems, and emerging tools like Pencil / Cursor.
Clear, compelling storytelling, able to communicate the strategic why, not just the design.

Product Design Manager – Platform

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