What is the type of contract for this position?

The contract for this position is a Full-time contract

What's the salary range for the Product Design Manager position?

The suggested salary for this position is $172,000-$224,000*

Is telecommuting possible for this position?

No, telecommuting is not possible for this position

Product Design Manager job at Wrike

Wrike is the most powerful work management platform. Built for teams and organizations looking to collaborate, create, and exceed every day, Wrike brings everyone and all work into a single place to remove complexity, increase productivity, and free people up to focus on their most purposeful work.

Our vision: A world where everyone is free to focus on their most purposeful work, together.

Ready to become a Wriker?

As a Product Design Manager, you’ll help define and drive the future of the Product Design organization. You will lead, identify, and set experience strategy, envision complex UX ecosystems, and inspire teams to push the boundaries of what’s possible. You will form a clear vision of the future of our product experience and have the courage to pursue forward-thinking design. You will also apply your passion for customer needs, design thinking, prototyping, brand expression, craft, and design fidelity to guide research and design processes.

More about Your team

Wrike product design team consists of 20+ full-stack product designers, 4 UX researchers, 2 UX writers, a Design Technologist, a Design System Architect, a UX Architect, 5 Managers, and a Head of Product Design. The team is distributed among different locations in Europe with the main hub located in Prague. All these professionals are inspired by each other, the broader organisation and by our customers.

How You’ll make an impact

Provide leadership, direction, and mentorship for a team of product designers.
Lead vision, creative and holistic thinking across portfolio areas and product releases.
Lead product design from the front, knowing how to empower designers in the team to do the best work of their career.
Build strong relationships and operating rhythms with leaders inside and outside their core product teams to efficiently implement user experiences that are cohesive, inclusive, and well-informed.
Advance and ensure coherent application of our design language system and platform architecture.
Foster culture and principles within the group, while defining standards, documentation practices, and tools for execution and operational excellence.
Engage in the design communities, representing Wrike and the Product Design Team.

How we work

We work in cross-functional product teams, as a Product Design Manager you'll be leading team of passionate product designers and ensure smooth cooperation with both Engineering and Product departments. We believe our product experience will be our major driver of innovation and differentiation and our Product Design Managers are instrumental to our success. Our product is thriving in a highly competitive market and it's used by millions of people worldwide to achieve their best within their teams and organizations.

You will achieve your best if you have

Significant professional product design experience.
Experience leading a team of product designers.
Experience leading cross-functional activities and workshops using design-thinking methods to inform product strategy and planning.
Up-to-date expertise in human-centered design best practices.
Experience with customer research methods.
Ability to visualize and prototype intended solutions at various levels of fidelity, from high-level wireframes or mock-ups to conceptual presentations to highly technical documents and diagrams.
Ability to present designs to a wide range of audiences, including software development, quality assurance, learning content development, marketing, and sales.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex ideas to their essence.
Experience with agile software design methods.

You will stand out with

Cognitive Science / Ergonomics background.
Software development background.
Visual or graphic design background.

Perks of working at Wrike

Health insurance for you and your family
SIMcard with unlimited internet access for employees (provided during your employment)
21 paid vacation days
5 uncertified sick days per year
Two fully paid weeks of sick leave
School allowance of up to €600 per month (for children at pre-school and school age)
Support with the Annual Tax reconciliation (only applicable for the year of relocation)
Up to 18 weeks of fully-paid maternity leave
2 weeks of fully paid paternity leave. Enhanced four weeks of fully paid paternity leave will be available for employees after 6 months of continuous service

What’s next?

Interview with Talent Acquisition Manager
Case studies submission
Panel interview
Cultural interview

Who Is Wrike and Our Culture

We’re a team of innovators and creators who solve the complex work problems of today and tomorrow.

Hybrid work mode

Wrike promotes ahybrid work mode and we meet in the office 3 times a week. This work mode supports our culture of collaboration and solving problems fast to deliver business outcomes and win together.

Our persona

💡 Smart: We love what we do, and we’re great at it because this is our domain. Our combined knowledge in this space is unmatched.

💚 Dedicated: We get up every day focused on helping our customers win. We’re committed to helping our teammates win, too!

🤗 Approachable: We're friendly, easy to get along with, considerate, and helpful.

Our culture and Values

📈 Deliver Business Outcomes

🥇 Be better than the competition

🚀 Move fast. Then, move faster

🤝 Know our customers

🏆 We win together

💪 Have courage

Check out our LinkedIn Life Page, Instagram, Wrike Engineering Team, Medium, Meetup.com, Youtube for a feel for what life is like at Wrike.

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Product Design Manager