Group Product Design Manager

Seeking a Group Product Design Manager to lead and grow a team of designers focused on shaping the future of the Rider Experience. In this role, you will have the opportunity to impact how the world moves, designing for people of all backgrounds and abilities across the globe, leading the creation and delivery of delightful, user-centric experiences.

You'll collaborate with engineers, data scientists, product managers, and some of the world's best designers and researchers in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. This role requires systems thinking, exceptional execution, bold innovation, a commitment to quality, and a deep passion for solving customer challenges.

Responsibilities:

• You'll collaborate with designers and cross-functional collaborators to help craft the vision and strategies behind some of the most important and exciting initiatives in the company.
• Set the bar high by knowing what quality looks like and how to help product teams ship at that quality with minimal impact on velocity.
• Hire and coach designers to become the collaborative glue that inspires product management and engineering while also developing their competencies at envisioning what could be.
• Be the voice of the customer and champion solving user problems
• Help designers develop a wide array of hard and soft skills based on their career goals and what the team needs
• Run design reviews, crits, and sprints and own some of your own projects.
• You should feel comfortable changing elevations quickly, from high-level critical thinking to evaluating research, interaction, and design execution.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of Product Design experience.
• 5+ years of management experience, leading and growing product design teams.
• Clear and effective written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
• Experience building products for mobile apps, tablets, and web interfaces.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrate long-term thinking around strategic and business-focused activities.
• Will have shipped many successful software products with a significant impact on the user experience and business. 0-1 experience is a plus.
• Extensive experience conducting and/or collaborating with user research and data science to demonstrate their respective insights.
• Will have managed and mentored both junior and more senior product designers.

Skills

management, mobile, product design, tablet, web