Description
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. As a Product Design Manager on the Dashboard team, you will manage a multidisciplinary team of product designers and a researcher, leading design efforts across multiple product areas at Plaid. You will partner closely with product and engineering to shape direction and outcomes.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include coaching individual contributors, driving high-quality design execution, and collaborating with PM leads to develop product strategy. Alongside owning near-term delivery, you and your team will also define and advance the long-term vision for how Plaid's products evolve.
The Dashboard team focuses on shipping experiences and elevating the UX quality of Plaid's Dashboard, a key surface area for customers and data partners. The Dashboard provides a variety of features and tools for launching with Plaid, integration monitoring, and account management and is the home of emerging insights products for payments and risk assessment.
Responsibilities:
- Shipping delightful and easy-to-use experiences, whether they’re for customers or partners
- Working on all types of problems: complex, ambiguous, large redesigns, small wins, internal demos, etc
- Closely collaborating with engineering, product, and marketing teams from planning through execution
- Producing high-quality work that not only pushes the experience forward, but inspires others and raises the quality bar
- Working directly with design, product and engineering leaders, helping craft compelling narratives, strategies, and inspiring demos
- Managing a team of ICs at different stages of their careers and coaching them to grow
- Joining a team of talented designers and contributing to our design culture through collaboration and leadership
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of product design experience
- 3+ years of product design management experience
- A portfolio demonstrating outstanding visual design, interaction design, problem-solving, and prototyping skills
- Experience leading large-scale redesigns or net new products, working on ambiguous problems, and on complex B2B applications.
- Experience managing a team of product designers to produce great work at scale
- An outstanding communicator, storyteller, and facilitator, who can bring people together and build a shared understanding with an inspiring vision and narrative
- Someone who is proactive, organized, curious, pragmatic, and can prioritize their own work independently to maximize their impact at the company