Product Design Manager

About the Team

The Product Growth stream works to improve customer experience while accelerating business growth. A highly-analytical and data-informed crew, we quickly validate our hypotheses through experimentation and turn that information into new features and products. This tight, cross-functional team has several areas of expertise:

Acquisition — attract most relevant users
Retention — engage and empower new users
Monetization — help users choose and purchase a paid plan to fit their needs
Community Platforms — build an ecosystem with user-generated content and more
Professional Services & Consultants — build an end-to-end experience for a new audience.

About the Role

As a Product Design Manager, Growth at Miro, you would be responsible for empowering the team to create end-to-end emotional experiences to leverage business growth and engage our users. You will have a chance to build the design team and ensure the strong cross-functional partnership to deliver excellence at scale.
We treat "Growth" as the "distribution of value" across our existing and potential users. For success in this role, it's crucial to combine the love of the design craft with solid business acumen and empathy for millions of people who use our products daily. 
If you are a passionate design leader who brings high-quality craft and amazing work ethics to the team, we would love to share more about the role that can become your next big thing!

What you’ll do

• Lead the product design team within the Growth sub-streams (Acquisition and Retention) with a focus on  end-to-end emotional experiences to leverage business growth and engage our users
• Partner with Product, Data, Engineering, and Marketing counterparts to strategize the domain, and ensure clear goals and priorities for the team
• Build, mentor, and develop a solid product design crew within your sub-stream
• Plan design team performance, workload, and career development
• Evolve the design processes within the broader org to optimise for efficiency
• Nurture and champion the design culture at Miro

What you’ll need

• 10+ years of product design experience, preferably in user-centric Enterprise SaaS companies.  Prior experience with Product/Growth, SaaS B2C2B / B2B models is a big plus
• Proven track record of managing teams and projects with demonstrated impact on the organisation success
• Understanding in-depth Growth domains and data-informed design approach
• Extensive product design experience with a strong focus on excellent craft
• Proven experience in hiring, scaling, and managing a design team
• Strategic and critical thinking, paired with flexibility and being open-minded
• Ability to measure and clearly articulate the value of design within the organization
• Ability to effectively lead end-to-end design process with your team

What's in it for you

• Competitive equity package
• Medical insurance coverage
• Lunch, snacks and drinks provided in the office
• Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
• Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
• Travel allowance for your commute
• Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team
• Inspiring workplace in the heart of Amsterdam

About Miro

Miro provides a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to dream, design, and build the future together. Our mission is to empower teams to create the next big thing by creating a place where teams can create together seamlessly, regardless of location. 

Today, more than 50 million users in 180,000 organizations including Nike, Ikea, Deloitte, WPP, and Cisco depend on Miro to improve product development collaboration, to speed up time to market, and to make sure that new products and services deliver on customer needs.

Miro's visual workspace enables distributed teams to come together to synthesize information, develop strategy, design products and services, and manage processes all throughout the innovation lifecycle. When you look at a Miro Board, you can see hundreds of collaborators moving through the space as named cursors on the screen designing, contributing ideas, providing feedback, and co-creating together with shared tools and information. 

Everyone in Miro has access to the same shared capabilities designed for innovation including diagramming, wireframing, real-time data visualization, and built-in support for agile practices. Miro's workspace is integrated with more than 130 other applications including Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Zoom, Slack, and Teams, many of which offer two-way integratio