Security - UX - Product Design Manager

Elastic; Canada; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented Product Design Manager to lead a team focused on innovation in GenAI-powered UX and advanced analytics. This role involves shaping the product design roadmap, mentoring designers, and ensuring cohesive user experiences across the portfolio. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in product design management, strong leadership skills, and a passion for advancing design excellence. Join a company that values diversity and offers flexible work arrangements, competitive pay, and generous vacation days, making it an exciting opportunity for your career growth.

Benefits

Health coverage for you and your family

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matching up to $2000

40 hours for volunteer projects

16 weeks of parental leave

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product design management.
• Strong leadership and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creation and management of the product design roadmap.
• Mentor designers and ensure timely project execution.

Skills

Leadership

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Attention to Detail

SaaS Platform Design

User Interface Design

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Design or related field

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What Is The Role:

We are seeking a Product Design Manager who excels in both leadership and hands-on contribution. While your primary focus will be on managing and mentoring a team, you’ll also be ready to roll up your sleeves to review designs and provide clear direction, and actionable guidance.

You’ll lead a team driving innovation in GenAI-powered UX, Advanced Analytics, Analyst experiences, and Investigation workflows, making a substantial impact on our Security solution. Your role will include shaping and overseeing the product design roadmap, supporting the team in aligning their work with the broader security design strategy, and fostering a culture of excellence and growth.

Collaborating closely with other design managers, you will align on priorities and approaches to ensure a cohesive and consistent user experience across Elastic’s portfolio. You’ll also work alongside the Design Director to evolve and refine Elastic’s security design strategy, maintaining a balance between strategic oversight and diving into details to support timely and high-quality execution.

Key responsibilities include removing blockers for your team, providing strategic guidance aligned with our overarching design vision, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects.

You will contribute to advancing design excellence within Elastic Security by collaborating with other solution design teams, the central design system team, and cross-functional partners. Your work will help shape design systems, cross-organizational design processes, and foster alignment to ensure consistency and scalability across Elastic’s products.

NOTE: Applications without a link to a Portfolio or a Case Study will not be considered. We appreciate your understanding.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Support, influence, and lead the creation and management of the product design roadmap in line with the broader security design strategy.
• Mentor and support designers, helping them to develop their skills and careers.
• Work with other design managers to prioritize projects and align design approaches, taking a holistic view of the user experience and ensuring that it is consistent across all products and platforms.
• Manage the team's work balance to ensure optimal productivity and creativity, while also paying close attention to the details of the design process and the user experience.
• Help execute projects on time by ensuring that the team is meeting milestones and deadlines.
• Unblock projects by providing clear tactical directions that are in line with the design strategy.
• Dive into details while staying strategic, balancing the need for excellence in execution with the need to be responsive to business needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design is integrated into product development.

What You Will Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in product design management.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Experience with managing product design roadmaps and delivering products on time.
• Ability to mentor and support designers to help them develop their skills and careers.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate ambiguity.
• Experience with cross-functional collaboration and ability to work with stakeholders from multiple departments.
• Excellent understanding of design principles, trends, and best practices.
• Ability to balance attention to detail with the ability to stay focused on the big picture.
• Understanding and experience designing UIs that handle extensive data.
• Strong background in SaaS platform design and usability.
• Proficiency in creating and improving complex workflow designs.

If you are a talented and experienced Product Design Manager who can manage a team, mentor designers, and execute projects on time, we want to hear from you. Apply today and take the first step toward joining our Security Design team.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [e-mail]. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.