Product Design Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Lead and cultivate the Product Design team.

• Oversee product designers, design engineers, and user researchers at various seniority levels.

• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings and mentor team members.

• Take ownership of evidence-based performance evaluations and deliver constructive feedback.

• Enhance the Product Design career progression framework.

• Recruit exceptional designers and diversify team backgrounds and viewpoints.

• Establish and uphold standards in problem framing, user comprehension, interaction design, information architecture, and visual craftsmanship.

• Organize design critiques and reviews that contribute to work improvement.

• Foster designers' judgment and independence.

• Maintain a comprehensive perspective of the product experience and tackle UX fragmentation.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership on problem identification and product strategy.

• Enhance critique, teamwork, decision-making, and knowledge-sharing processes.

• Report to the VP of Product until the Head of Design is appointed.

• Occasionally perform exploratory or gap-filling design tasks outside the squads.

• Engage in the hiring process, which includes candidate presentations, live critiques, coaching, and reference checks.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of experience managing product designers in a product-driven technology company.

• Managed a team consisting of five or more individuals.

• Demonstrated experience with one-on-ones, evidence-based performance reviews, difficult feedback discussions, and performance management.

• Developed or enhanced a career progression framework for designers.

• Experience in coaching and mentoring designers and facilitating effective critiques.

• Strong design skills, aesthetic sense, and judgment.

• Experience in hiring designers.

• Hands-on experience with AI tools and a well-informed perspective on AI-driven products.

• Nice to have: experience with B2B SaaS, developer tools, workflow automation, or similarly technical products.

• Nice to have: a curiosity about APIs, webhooks, data structures, and workflow execution.

• Nice to have: experience designing for developers or technical operators.

• Nice to have: systems thinking, influence without authority, team scaling, remote teams, open-source involvement, and inclusive hiring practices.

• Proficiency in English as it is the company language.

• For applicants outside of Germany, a valid right to work is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity ownership in n8n.

• Europe: 30 days of vacation, in addition to public holidays wherever you are located.

• Europe: benefits in accordance with local country standards.

• Europe: pension contributions per local country norms.

• €1K (or equivalent) annually for courses, books, events, or coaching.

• Regular hackathons.

• Remote-first work environment across Europe.

• Frequent off-site events for team bonding.

• $100 monthly to support open-source initiatives.

• Company transparency.

• Visa sponsorship available for Germany.