Product Design Manager
10 Months ago • 6-6 Years • $165,000 PA - $231,000 PA
Product Design
Job Description
Meta is seeking a talented and experienced Product Design Manager to lead and manage a team of designers, ensuring our products and features are user-friendly, valuable, and executed to the highest standards. You'll be a key member of the leadership team, collaborating with engineering, data science, UX research, and content design to define the strategy, operations, and communications that guide the team towards building exceptional products that meet real user needs. This role requires a strong understanding of product design, interaction design, visual design, and people management skills. As a Product Design Manager, your responsibilities include: Building and managing a diverse and talented team of product designers, ensuring they deliver consistently on projects and possess a balanced range of design skills. Overseeing the user experience of a product from conception to launch in partnership with product managers, engineers, UX researchers, and content designers. Converting conceptual ideas into valuable products for billions of users. Contributing to strategic decisions shaping the future direction of Meta's products. Designing end-to-end flows and experiences that are simple and elegant for various platforms. Defining, crafting, and evolving designs within visual systems or standards. Proactively soliciting and providing feedback to designers and the broader product team to continually raise the bar for quality, while also taking on mentorship responsibilities. Cultivating a healthy design process for the team and being a key contributor to the organization's product strategy. Effectively communicating your team's product goals both internally and externally, connecting related projects across the company to resolve problems or joint decisions swiftly.
Good To Have:
- Experience with delivering 0-1 products from concept stages to launch
- Experience working on large scale, complex, ambiguous projects across multiple teams
Must Have:
- 6+ years of experience in Product Design
- 3+ years of design leadership experience with direct reports
- 6+ years of experience collaborating with product, engineering, design, content, and user research teams
- Experience building and shipping applications or software across various platforms
- Experience leading product direction and strategic thinking
- Experience representing work to a broader product team and other leaders
Perks:
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
At Meta, we’re shaping innovative experiences in service of giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Our multidisciplinary design teams are creating new ways to help people connect, find communities and grow businesses. Together, we are committed to building innovative technologies — Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Workplace, Meta Quest and more — to serve billions of people around the globe.
Meta is looking for a Product Design Manager with exceptional design, communication and people management skills. As a Product Design Manager, you will lead and manage teams to ensure our products and features are valuable for people, easy to use, and of the highest level of craft and execution. In this role, you'll be a foundational member on the leadership team, working together with your counterparts in engineering, data science, UX research, content design, and other disciplines to define the strategy, operations and communications that guide the team to build great products addressing real user needs. You’ll be expected to utilize your full range of people management skills, product strategy, product design, interaction design and visual design skills. This posting represents different full-time roles across the Meta company.
Product Design Manager Responsibilities
- Build and manage a talented, diverse, inclusive team of product designers and leaders that consistently delivers on projects and is well-balanced across a range of design skill sets.
- Responsible for overall team performance and health, resource allocation, project prioritization, and building a culture of design excellence.
- Lead and oversee the user experience of a product from conception to launch in partnership with product managers, engineers, UX researchers and content designers.
- Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into useful and valuable products for our billions of users.
- Contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of Meta’s products.
- Design end-to-end flows and experiences that are simple and elegant for our supported platforms.
- Define, craft and evolve designs within visual systems and/or standard.
- Proactively solicit and provide feedback from designers and a broader product team in order to continually raise our bar for quality, while also taking on mentorship.
- Cultivate a healthy design process for the team, and be a key contributor to your organization's product strategy.
- Effectively communicate your team's product goals (both within the team and outside the team), and connect related projects across the company so that problems or joint decisions can be resolved quickly
Minimum Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in Product Design.
- 3+ years of design leadership experience with direct reports under your guidance and leadership.
- 6+ years of experience working collaboratively with product, engineering, design, content and user research teams.
- Experience building and shipping applications or software across a variety of platforms.
- Experience leading product direction and strategic thinking with the experience developing product goals, identify opportunities, and make decisions based on the impact to people and the company.
- Experience representing work to a broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succinctly articulating the goals and concepts.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with delivering 0-1 products from concept stages to launch.
- Experience working on large scale, complex, ambiguous projects across multiple teams.
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Locations
Data Center
About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
$165,000/year to $231,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about at Meta.
Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action
Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. You may view our Equal Employment Opportunity notice .
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