Product Design Manager, Orchestrate

Asana is looking for a Product Design Manager to lead design for the Orchestrate Area in our Workflow Pillar. You’ll lead a team of designers focused on empowering teams to effortlessly build, customize, scale, and iterate on their end-to-end workflows. You’ll play an important role in realizing Workflow’s mission to make the process of getting work done efficient, effective, and delightful.

This role is perfect for a design leader who loves tackling complex systems problems. We’re looking for someone who is a strong advocate for customers and has a passion for product and design excellence. You learn fast, understand which details matter, and guide your team to craft high-quality experiences. Above all, you’re an excellent people manager who can coach the designers on your team to do their best work. 

You’ll be a part of the Asana design leadership team, and you’ll have the opportunity to pave the way for innovation for the larger Asana design team — not only in what we make but also in how we make it.

What you’ll achieve

• Grow, mentor, and lead a talented team of product designers in our San Francisco office
• Coach and mentor your team in delivering high-quality, delightful, and easy to use end-to-end experiences in order to shape a product that is intuitive and elegant
• Champion product excellence and elevate the quality bar for our experience
• Partner with cross-functional partners to establish the strategy, vision, metrics, and goals for the Orchestrate Area in order to meet customer and business needs
• Work across the organization to connect the dots across teams and ship experiences that are cohesive with the broader Asana product experience
• Facilitate and role model human-centered problem solving. Foster co-creation across the organization.

About you

• Relevant product design experience, with around 8+ years experience in product design and 1+ years in a people management role
• An inclusive people leader who can lead a team of experienced designers and inspire them to do their best work
• A strong portfolio that showcases a track record of shipping high-quality interaction and interface design work as an IC and/or people manager
• Strong systems thinker, with experience designing for complex systems and drawing connections across features and teams
• Skilled in driving a human-centered design process and helping teams navigate challenges to collaboratively to ship end-to-end features at scale 
• Creative problem-solver who embraces divergent and iterative methods in order to help teams evolve concepts from raw ideas to polished designs
• Open and curious, with a strong growth mindset

About the design team

We design the future of teamwork. Asana has a bold, ambitious mission: help humanity thrive by enabling the world’s teams to work together effortlessly. Our design team is at the heart of that mission.

Asana Design is an inclusive and collaborative community. We’re a talented group of designers from different backgrounds (product, brand and content design, design operations, producers, motion design, film, copywriting) who love combining research, data insights, and peer feedback into a human-centered design process. We partner with people across Asana to create our product, shape our brand, and drive greater impact through design. We use design to solve challenges and create experiences that customers love. We also take the time to get weird and have fun along the way.

We believe every designer should have the opportunity to grow and learn by utilizing their strengths and nurturing their interests.

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