Sr. Manager, Product Design

We’re looking for a creative Senior Product Design Manager with a solid understanding of design process within mid to large size organizations. You love working with a diverse array of people, embracing design challenges and obsessing about cultivating transparency and guiding design approaches. You’re highly collaborative and comfortable leading design critiques. If this sounds like you, and you’d like a chance to join the Mailchimp team, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll do here:

• Actively manage product designers and senior product designers, providing guidance, oversight, and mentorship to the team
• Set expectations, and help promote a fun, highly collaborative team culture as well as mentor and grow team
• Manage team’s visibility, documentation and process tools
• Work closely with front end and engineering managers to advance patterns and standards as well as finalize timelines and deliverables
• Work with the team to ensure exceptional design deliverables; set and exceed best practices and standards, measurable impacts, and design integrity in the final product
• Motivate the team to create designs that constantly push boundaries to keep Mailchimp at the forefront of UX design
• Oversee project timelines and deliverables, guide production pipeline and communicate evolving project goals

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• 8+ years product design experience
• Strong experience building, managing and leading product design teams, preferably in a SaaS environment
• Experience on teams designing for web and mobile
• Bachelor degree in relevant field highly preferred or equivalent experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Portfolio to illustrate applied experience as the creative process leader on projects
• Ability to embrace change and hyper-growth with nimble ease in adapting