Design is at our core at Shopmonkey. We put the customer and a great user experience above all else. As a product design manager, you have a critical role in defining our relationship with our customers through product and leading other designers to do the same. The ideal candidate is strong in their design craft and design thinking, enjoys managing and leading others, and excited about shaping our products from inception to finish in a fast-paced environment. Come join a team of skilled designers transforming the auto care industry.
You’ll Have The Opportunity To:
- Bring new products to life as a hands-on designer and manager
- Lead a product squad with partners in engineering and product
- Manage and mentor other product designers
- Brainstorm, design, and deliver — start to finish — new features and enhancements
- Coordinate with the product, engineering and cross-functional teams — QA, support, marketing, sales — to shape the product end-to-end and to see features released
- Create concepts to solve early stage customer and business problems
- Collaborate with other squads to create a consistent user experience
- Balance design decisions with technical and business constraints
- Partner with product, research and front-line teams to fully understand our customers — their pains and joys; their needs and desires — and to refine designs and flows
- Help create and run user research studies and usability tests
- Visit shops and engage with customers live
- Help to validate feature usability after shipping
To Be Successful In This Role, You Will Need:
- 1+ years of management experience (bonus: experience in leading without authority)
- 5+ years of product design experience
- Experience designing and shipping products for business, Fintech, and/or SaaS in fast-paced environment
- Experience with the full product design stack and using Figma
- Ability to clearly communicate concepts and design through story, diagrams, sketches, wireframes, hi-fidelity mockups and prototypes
- Excellent written, verbal and communication skills and the ability to collaborate and build relationships across departments
- Strong customer empathy and business understanding
- Enjoyment in the product design craft
- Hungry, fast-learner mindset
- Comfortable with ambiguity and fast-paced startup environments
Bonus
- Experience with animations tools (Framer, ProtoPie, Principle, etc), front-end development, and sharing designs and presenting via Loom
In the United States the range is typically a salary of $136,000 to $140,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. The range provided is Shopmonkey’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount will be based on job-related and non-discriminatory factors such as location, experience, training, skills, and abilities. Consult with your Recruiter during the initial call to determine a more targeted range based on these job-related factors. In addition to this base compensation company stock options and benefits as outlined below are included.