Senior Product Design Manager

GoodParty.org is on a mission to make people matter more than money in our democracy by empowering Independent candidates. The Senior Product Design Manager will lead Product and Brand Design, develop a world-class user experience, and manage a team of designers to create innovative tools for community engagement.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and grow a world-class team of Brand and Product Designers
• Create design processes that champion an iterative, fast-paced, data-driven design philosophy
• Partner with Product leadership to craft a product vision, and lead execution
• Bring your world-class design and brand taste to modernize our community engagement tools
• Develop user research best practices. Ensure consistent feedback loops in our Design cycles
• Elevate Goodparty.org’s brand and visual identity
• Champion the use of AI across your team. Set standards that emphasize velocity
• Obsess over the user experience and design accessible interfaces that work seamlessly for people with varying levels of ability
• Maintain high empathy in all facets of your team’s work
• Report to the Chief Product Officer

Requirements:

• You have 2+ years of experience leading Design teams in a consumer internet company or a consumer-quality SaaS company
• You've managed a team of at least 3 direct reports
• You've also been an individual contributor for 3+ years, for a total of 5+ years of product design experience
• You're highly skilled in both responsive web design and native mobile applications
• You're highly proficient with design tools like Figma, Maze, etc
• You have a strong understanding of user-centered design principles and best practices
• You build strong User Research practices to better understand your users
• You have strong communication skills
• You are a storyteller
• You bring a clear creative direction from the highest level but are hands-on living and breathing the details
• You've led Brand teams and have a Brand Design or Agency background, and also have also been in-house as a Product Design leader
• You've studied, worked, or volunteered in politics, civics, or democracy reform
• You're tired of sitting on the sidelines while democracy fails to meet its potential – and you're ready to act