Product Design Manager

Who We Are

Addepar is a global technology and data company that helps investment professionals provide the most informed, precise guidance for their clients. Hundreds of thousands of users have entrusted Addepar to empower smarter investment decisions and better advice over the last decade. With client presence in more than 50 countries, Addepar’s platform aggregates portfolio, market and client data for over $7 trillion in assets. Addepar’s open platform integrates with more than 100 software, data and services partners to deliver a complete solution for a wide range of firms and use cases. Addepar embraces a global flexible workforce model with offices in Silicon Valley, New York City, Salt Lake City, Chicago, London, Edinburgh, Pune, and Dubai.

The Role

The Design team at Addepar shapes investment professionals’ digital experiences. By designing and delivering intuitive, easy-to-use products, we help investment professionals grow their businesses and offer outstanding services to their clients. We take an agile, high-growth approach and champion a client-centered work environment with a focus on constructive feedback and collaboration.

We are seeking a motivated Product Design Manager for our portfolio data management and platform administration experience. This player-coach role will be leading a small team of product designers and driving the design transformation of our existing best-in-class products hands-on in close collaboration with product and engineering partners. You and your team will be tasked with taking the user experience to the next level with intuitive and scalable workflows, enterprise-grade permission features, and adoption of our modern design system, Addepar Design Language. 

What You’ll Do

• Provide design vision and thought leadership for Addepar’s product offerings and platform, advised by user research and data. Champion our clients. 
• Partner with product management, engineering leads, and other internal collaborators to establish and align on objectives, strategies, solutions, processes, deliverables, and development plans. Achieve business outcomes.
• Triage design needs across multiple workstreams. Set goals and communicate priorities to your team. Be accountable.
• Build and manage a diverse team of product designers that consistently delivers. 
• Lead, empower, and mentor product designers on the team to do their best work. Regularly provide constructive critique and introduce learning opportunities. Encourage growth.
• Collaborate with the design system team and design leads across Addepar's platform to ensure a cohesive end-to-end client experience that embody our brand. 
• Be a driver and contributor to strategic design initiatives. Work with other design leads to improve and scale existing design patterns, rituals, and tools. Cultivate a culture of design excellence.
• Seek out and adopt feedback from your peers, reports, collaborators, and cross-functional leadership. 

Who You Are

• 7+ years of experience working in the field of Product Design, Interaction Design, or UX Design. 
• 1+ year of experience leading and managing a team. 
• A portfolio showcasing strong user-centered design practices, design fundamentals, and product thinking. 
• Proven records of driving design and development team through successful product launches and continuous improvements.
• Experienced in designing web experience for SaaS products and platforms for multi-faceted user base across a range of segments, from small business to large enterprise. 
• Passion for building a happy, impactful design team.
• Passion for systematic, modularized design solutions and practical problem solving.
• Ability to think big pictures and plan for long-term product and platform transformation. 
• Exceptional communication, presentations, collaboration, and partnership building skills.
• Proficient in using Figma, our preferred design and prototyping tool. 

Our Values 

• Act Like an Owner - Think and operate with intention, purpose and care. Own outcomes.
• Build Together - Collaborate to unlock the best solutions. Deliver lasting value. 
• Champion Our Clients - Exceed client expectations. Our clients’ success is our success. 
• Drive Innovation - Be bold and unconstrained in problem solving. Transform the industry. 
• Embrace Learning - Engage our community to broaden our perspective. Bring a growth mindset. 

In addition to our core values, Addepar is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We seek to bring together diverse ideas, experiences, skill sets, perspectives, backgrounds and identities to drive innovative solutions. We commit to promoting a welcoming environment where inclusion and belonging are held as a shared responsibility.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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