Senior Product Design Manager, Growth

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

📋 Description

• Lead and nurture product designers across various teams or within a large, intricate area.

• Establish design direction for both zero-to-one and growth initiatives.

• Guide teams in transforming ambiguous opportunities into compelling product experiences and measurable insights.

• Mentor teams through experimentation by utilizing customer insights, research, data, prototypes, and product outcomes.

• Balance the pace of growth and unit economics with customer value, craftsmanship, trust, accessibility, and the overall health of long-term experiences.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, Research, Marketing, and other teams to define strategies, outline initiatives, make trade-offs, and deliver customer value.

• Act as the Design representative in discussions regarding roadmap, resource allocation, timelines, and quality assurance.

• Provide support to the KOHO Design System team through strategic direction, prioritization, critique, coaching, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Establish operational practices, feedback mechanisms, and decision-making frameworks.

• Identify organizational capabilities and assist in attracting, hiring, onboarding, and developing designers and design leaders.

• Responsibly utilize AI-enabled tools for exploration, synthesis, prototyping, design-system maintenance, communication, and decision-making.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience designing and delivering consumer-facing digital products, preferably in fintech, financial services, or other complex domains across mobile and web.

• At least 4 years of experience in leading and developing product design teams.

• Significant experience in zero-to-one and/or growth initiatives.

• Proven track record in identifying opportunities, launching new experiences, enhancing acquisition or activation, and learning through experimentation.

• Comprehension of growth as both a product and design challenge.

• Extensive expertise in design systems, including building, scaling, governing, adopting, or significantly evolving a design system utilized by multiple teams.

• Strong agency and sound judgment.

• Proficient in influencing product strategy, roadmap decisions, scope, and prioritization.

• Excellent relationships with Product, Engineering, Data, Research, Marketing, and other cross-functional partners.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Comfortable using contemporary AI tools with sound judgment regarding privacy and quality.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation & equity.

• Generous vacation policy.

• Wellness days.

• Flex Days.

• Holiday closure.

• Remote-first work environment.

• Co-working support.

• Annual all-hands retreat.

• Access to coaching & growth programs.

• Parental top-up & leave policies.

• Comprehensive health benefits.

• Power-up budgets for books, home office setup, phone & internet, AI tools, and professional development.

• Work-life integration.

• Flexible working hours.

• Opportunities for asynchronous collaboration.