murmuration · 8 hours ago

Senior Manager, Product Design

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$120K/yr - $150K/yr

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Effectively and empathetically lead a team of designers and user researcher(s), balancing capacity across active product initiatives;

Make difficult prioritization judgment calls, leveraging 80-20 thinking to help the team stay laser-focused on the most critical initiatives;

Determine necessary levels of fidelity and points of diminishing returns, being willing to alternately push the team toward rigor or scrappiness based on the situation at-hand;

Develop and iterate on Murmuration’s design strategy to integrate multiple product lines into a unified platform through user experience design;

Supervise and support Murmuration’s user research strategy and execution, ensuring the 'voice of the partner' is incorporated at every point in our product development cycle;

Oversee the iterative development of design systems that will stand the test of time, helping us level up our design operations and best practices;

Provide coaching and hands-on-Figma feedback to each designer, ensuring that the standards of user interface and user experience design remain high (and rising);

Collaborate with engineering and product management leadership to develop and iterate on research and development processes that balance speed and rigor;

Streamline and evolve design operations, implementing tools, processes, and workflows that empower the design team to work efficiently while fostering creativity and collaboration across Product and Engineering teams;

Collaborate with designers and user research on each product vertical to ensure that we’re keeping the big picture in mind; the external eye that sees the forest, less distracted by the trees; and

Mentor and empower team members to help them reach their career goals, identifying opportunities to tailor responsibilities, assignments, and training to the areas where each individual is most interested in learning and growing.

Qualification

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Product Design FundamentalsAgile MethodologiesUser-Centric Decision MakingUser ResearchFigmaVisual DesignUI DesignInteraction DesignPrototypingInformation ArchitectureDesktop Design PrinciplesMobile Design PrinciplesInclusive DesignCoaching DesignersBrand ImplementationJiraMiroCivic EngagementCRMsAnalytics ToolsData VisualizationBehavioral ScienceMentoring Team Members

Required

8+ years of advanced expertise in product design fundamentals, including visual design, UI design, interaction design, prototyping and information architecture

6+ years of demonstrable experience in designing complex, live, technical products on teams using Agile software development methodologies

A strong understanding of desktop and mobile design principles, including best practices and inclusive design that consider the holistic user experience

A strong commitment to user-centric decision making, welcoming both qualitative user research and quantitative data gauging the impact of our products in order to enrich the iterative design process

Expertise with industry-standard design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Jira, and Miro (or equivalent)

A bias for action and an entrepreneurial mindset: the ability to thrive working in fast-paced climates (e.g., startup or similar)

Experience coaching and mentoring designers with the desire to grow further as a design leader and people manager

An ability to distill priorities in the midst of valid, competing perspectives – and guide a team to focus and think creatively about how to provide development teams what they need

Experience implementing and iterating on a complex brand in product design

A passion for civic engagement and equitability