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 looking for a Product Design Manager for our client reporting and billing offerings. With our products today, wealth managers can design and deliver fully customized, branded reports, tailor fee structures based on the portfolios, and streamline client engagement operations. This enables wealth managers to provide superior, personalized financial advice to their end-clients with even the most sophisticated portfolios and build long-lasting, trusted relationships.

This role will be leading a team of product designers, driving the design transformation of our existing best-in-class products hands-on in close collaboration with product and engineering partners, and 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 reporting and billing products, advised by user research and data. Champion our clients.
• Partner with product management, engineering leads, and other internal collaborators to align on objectives, product strategies, solutions, development processes, and design deliverables. Achieve business outcomes.
• Triage design needs across multiple workstreams. Set 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, product thinking, and design fundamentals.
• Proven records of driving design and development team through successful product launches and continuous improvements.
• Experienced in designing web SaaS products for multi-faceted user base across a variety 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 transformation.
• Exceptional communication, presentations, collaboration, and partnership building skills.
• Proficient in using Figma, our preferred design and prototyping tool.