Product Design Manager

Monarch is a powerful personal finance platform aiming to simplify finances for its users. The Design Manager will lead and scale the design organization, ensuring high usability and clarity in the product while integrating AI tools to enhance workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow the design team through hiring, mentoring, and day-to-day management
• Allocate design resources across product initiatives, ensuring teams stay focused on the highest-impact work
• Partner closely with product and engineering leadership to shape product direction and ensure strong design thinking throughout development
• Establish scalable design operations and planning processes, including quarterly resource planning and cross-team coordination
• Introduce and operationalize AI tools that help the design team move faster across research, ideation, and prototyping

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in product design, with 2+ years managing or leading designers
• Strong product design judgment with a high bar for usability, clarity, and craft
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and growing designers
• Hands-on experience designing and shipping complex digital products (web and/or mobile)
• Comfort adopting and experimenting with AI tools to improve design workflows and productivity
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working closely with product and engineering teams
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving product environment
• Experience working within a high-growth startup or product-led B2C/SaaS company
• Experience working at a company known for strong product design
• Early-stage startup experience
• Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system
• Familiarity with modern AI tools used in design, research, or prototyping workflows