Senior Product Design Manager

About Remote

Remote is solving global remote organizations’ biggest challenge: employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible for businesses big and small to employ a global team by handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance. Check out remote.com/how-it-works to learn more or if you’re interested in adding to the mission, scroll down to apply now.

Please take a look at remote.com/handbook to learn more about our culture and what it is like to work here. Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age and abilities to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. You can check out independent reviews by other candidates on Glassdoor or look up the results of our candidate surveys to see how others feel about working and interviewing here.

All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us!

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Senior Product Design Manager, joining our Design team.

Design is at the forefront of everything we do. As a Senior Product Design Manager, you will have the chance to help build, coach, and mentor a quickly growing and highly skilled group of designers. In this role, you will envision how people experience our products and bring that vision to life with a deep knowledge of working within a diverse team (design, engineering, and product management) also taking responsibility for the entire design process from initial research, ideation, conceptualization, and design, to testing and validation

What you bring

• You have experience developing designers’ skills and careers.
• An impressive portfolio showcasing a clear understanding of simplicity, typography, interactions and product design.
• You have experience recruiting and building product design teams.
• Proven experience of advocacy for the customer and applying user research insights to your design.
• Demonstrates an elevated and expanded expertise in their role and best practices.
• Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments.
• Effectively prioritizing and delivering their role's expected outcomes and proactively assisting colleagues where needed to help the team's success.
• One who cares deeply about diversity and inclusion.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a quickly growing and business-critical team.
• Increase the level of team maturity. Mentor and inspire, give and seek feedback in order to continually raise our bar for quality.
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, as well as new functions and features.
• Contribute to hiring and retaining product designers; help to shape the team culture.
• Ability to provide clear feedback and direction to designers on your team without being overly prescriptive.
• Contribute to creating and maintaining our design system, participate in team critiques and reviews, assist in user research, organize customer events and design workshops.

Practicals

• You'll report to: Product Design Director
• Team: Product Design
• Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritise applications from specific regions of the world as we encourage our teams to diversify
• Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globa