Senior Manager, Product Design

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Senior Product Design Manager leading platform, mobile and design-system experiences for HighLevel's AI-powered business operating system. Managing eight designers across US and India.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead design for HighLevel's core platform experiences, native mobile experiences and design system team
  • Report to the Senior Director, Product Design
  • Manage, coach and develop approximately 8 product designers across US and India teams
  • Set expectations for quality, ownership, collaboration and delivery
  • Hire, onboard and develop product designers
  • Conduct performance management, coaching, critiques and quality reviews
  • Raise aesthetic quality, visual craft, interaction quality, product design thinking and customer-centered execution
  • Lead design execution across navigation, account management, configuration, workflow execution and customer operations
  • Guide mobile design for native platforms
  • Partner with Product and Engineering on priorities, roadmaps, tradeoffs and customer experience
  • Connect desktop, mobile and shared platform surfaces into one coherent product experience
  • Line manage the design system team and partner on strategy, priorities, governance and adoption
  • Drive adoption of shared components, patterns and interaction standards across product, design and engineering
  • Build partnerships with Product, Engineering, Data, Support and Customer Success
  • Represent Design in planning, roadmap and delivery conversations
  • Work across time zones and cultures, especially between US and India teams
  • Encourage responsible AI-assisted workflows for exploration, prototyping, documentation and production collaboration

Requirements:

  • 9+ years of experience in product design, UX or related product experience disciplines
  • 3+ years managing product designers
  • Proven experience managing designers across complex B2B SaaS, platform, mobile or multi-product environments
  • Exceptional aesthetic judgment, visual craft and interaction-design taste
  • Experience leading critique, coaching designers and helping teams make strong design decisions
  • Experience leading or line managing design system work, including component libraries, shared patterns, contribution models, documentation, governance or adoption across product teams
  • Experience managing distributed teams and working across time zones
  • Experience working closely with India-based teams is a strong plus
  • Demonstrated ability to hire strong designers, develop existing talent and performance manage team members who need additional support
  • Strong product judgment and ability to balance customer needs, business outcomes, technical constraints and speed of execution
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted production tools such as Cursor, Claude Code or exploratory "vibe coding" workflows
  • Comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with high ownership expectations

Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation
  • Benefits
  • Flexibility
  • Global, remote-first organization
  • Opportunity to work with modern AI-assisted production tools and workflows
  • Opportunity to lead design for foundational product experiences used by millions of businesses
  • Opportunity to manage and grow a talented team across US and India
  • Opportunity to help level up design system strategy and execution
  • Opportunity to work in a culture that values velocity, ownership and practical experimentation