Senior Manager, Product Design – AI Workflows

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

📋 Description

• Lead a high-performing team of product designers dedicated to AI-driven workflows spanning Product and Revenue product lines.

• Report directly to the Senior Director of Product Design.

• Oversee, mentor, and cultivate the growth of approximately 8–12 product designers across teams in the US and India.

• Spearhead design execution for communication, messaging, and automation experiences.

• Align customer requirements, business objectives, technical limitations, and product strategy across AI workflow platforms.

• Establish standards for quality, accountability, collaboration, communication, and timely delivery.

• Ensure designers remain focused on priority tasks while managing uncertainty and clarifying expectations, obstacles, and decisions.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, design leadership, and the Senior Director of Product Design on roadmaps, trade-offs, and outcomes.

• Facilitate critiques, coaching sessions, quality assessments, and discussions on launch readiness.

• Enhance usability, accessibility, interaction quality, visual consistency, design-system alignment, and AI-assisted experiences.

• Maintain visibility of workstreams through rituals, updates, and risk escalation processes.

• Recruit talent, onboard designers, and develop personalized growth plans.

• Utilize AI-powered tools and workflows for exploration, prototyping, synthesis, documentation, and collaborative production.

⛳️ Requirements

• 9+ years of relevant experience in product design, UX, or product roles, including at least 3 years in a managerial capacity overseeing product designers.

• Demonstrated experience in managing designers within complex B2B SaaS, platform, workflow-intensive, or multi-product contexts.

• A robust portfolio showcasing product judgment, systems thinking, customer empathy, high-quality execution, and measurable product impact, ideally featuring AI-driven or AI-supported product experiences.

• Exceptional skills in visual and interaction design judgment.

• Strong management capabilities with individual contributors.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Proven experience leading critiques, coaching designers, providing direct feedback, and guiding teams toward enhanced product design decisions.

• Familiarity with design systems, accessibility standards, reusable patterns, and scalable product experience strategies.

• Strong product judgment with the ability to balance customer needs, business objectives, technical constraints, and execution speed.

• Proficiency in designing AI-native experiences, including conversational interfaces, automation, agentic workflows, or generative communication tools.

• Proven track record in hiring talented designers, nurturing talent, supporting career advancement, and performance management of team members.

• Experience managing distributed teams and coordinating across time zones; experience working closely with teams based in India is highly advantageous.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted production tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Generous paid time off and flexible working arrangements.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• A collaborative and inclusive work environment.