Manage and develop four direct reports across multiple time zones, with consistent 1:1s, actionable feedback, and individualized growth support
Run design operations for your pod: review cadence, Figma hygiene, handoff standards, and sprint participation
Ensure design is in the room at kickoff—before the PRD is written, not after
Enforce sign-off gates before work moves to engineering, maintaining quality and consistency across your surfaces
Partner directly with VP Product counterparts for Partner, Coach, and Member pods to align on priorities and tradeoffs
Surface experience quality issues across your surfaces and bring them to weekly design review
Contribute to team-wide rituals: cross-pod critiques, design jams, and quarterly dogfooding
Maintain craft standards as a player-coach—you are still a designer, not just a manager; taste and collaboration with growth, core, AI, and design systems teams matter

7+ years of product design experience, including people management experience
Experience managing product designers across multiple product areas simultaneously
Strong systems thinking—the surfaces you own span B2B, B2C, and two-sided interactions
A track record of getting design upstream, not just executing on PM direction
Comfort operating without perfect information in a fast-moving environment
Player-coach mindset—craft and taste are as important as management skills
Proficiency with Figma and modern design tools; familiarity with prototyping and design systems workflows
Experience with AI-powered design tools and workflows (e.g., AI-assisted prototyping, generative design, AI-powered user research analysis)

Product Design Manager, Vertical Experiences

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