Product Design Manager

The Role

The Design team at Addepar shapes investment professionals’ digital experiences. By designing and delivering intuitive, easy-to-use products, we help investment professionals grow their businesses and offer outstanding services to their clients. We take an agile, high-growth approach and champion a client-centered work environment with a focus on constructive feedback and collaboration.

We are seeking a motivated Product Design Manager for our portfolio data management and platform administration experience. This player-coach role will be leading a small team of product designers and driving the design transformation of our existing best-in-class products hands-on in close collaboration with product and engineering partners. You and your team will be tasked with taking the user experience to the next level with intuitive and scalable workflows, enterprise-grade permission features, and adoption of our modern design system, Addepar Design Language. 

What You’ll Do

• Provide design vision and thought leadership for Addepar’s product offerings and platform, advised by user research and data. Champion our clients. 
• Partner with product management, engineering leads, and other internal collaborators to establish and align on objectives, strategies, solutions, processes, deliverables, and development plans. Achieve business outcomes.
• Triage design needs across multiple workstreams. Set goals and communicate priorities to your team. Be accountable.
• Build and manage a diverse team of product designers that consistently delivers. 
• Lead, empower, and mentor product designers on the team to do their best work. Regularly provide constructive critique and introduce learning opportunities. Encourage growth.
• Collaborate with the design system team and design leads across Addepar's platform to ensure a cohesive end-to-end client experience that embody our brand. 
• Be a driver and contributor to strategic design initiatives. Work with other design leads to improve and scale existing design patterns, rituals, and tools. Cultivate a culture of design excellence.
• Seek out and adopt feedback from your peers, reports, collaborators, and cross-functional leadership. 

Who You Are

• 7+ years of experience working in the field of Product Design, Interaction Design, or UX Design. 
• 1+ year of experience leading and managing a team. 
• A portfolio showcasing strong user-centered design practices, design fundamentals, and product thinking. 
• Proven records of driving design and development team through successful product launches and continuous improvements.
• Experienced in designing web experience for SaaS products and platforms for multi-faceted user base across a range of segments, from small business to large enterprise. 
• Passion for building a happy, impactful design team.
• Passion for systematic, modularized design solutions and practical problem solving.
• Ability to think big pictures and plan for long-term product and platform transformation. 
• Exceptional communication, presentations, collaboration, and partnership building skills.
• Proficient in using Figma, our preferred design and prototyping tool.