Product Design Manager

Baton; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and bonus structure

Annual bonus and Long Term Incentive Plan participation

Hybrid work schedule

401k with matching

Medical, Dental, and Vision health coverage

Employee Stock Purchase Program (15% discount)

Collaborative, fun office environment

Job summary

A leading product development firm in San Francisco is seeking a Product Design Manager to lead a team of designers. This role focuses on delivering exceptional user-centered design across complex workflows, shaping product experiences, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in product design and strong leadership skills. This position offers competitive compensation along with a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product design, especially in B2B SaaS.
• Experience managing a team of designers.
• Strong UX thinking and visual detail orientation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of designers.
• Manage design system and ensure quality.
• Collaborate with PM and engineering to deliver experiences.
• Create simple UX for complex workflows.
• Define success metrics and validate ideas.

Skills

Design leadership

User experience design

Collaboration

Systems thinking

Tools

Figma

Job description

Who We Are

Baton is Ryder’s in-house product development group focused on harnessing emerging technologies to redefine transportation and logistics. With $10B in freight under management, our technology reaches every part of the U.S. economy.

We design and ship category-defining software that enables Ryder and its 50,000+ customers—including some of the world’s most well-known brands—to plan and execute freight intelligently, efficiently, and cost-effectively. Our work includes everything from customer-facing software to the data platform that will power the next era of innovation at Ryder.

Baton’s mission: enable supply chain on autopilot. Ryder acquired Baton in 2022 to power its next wave of digital products. We operate at startup speed, with Fortune 500 reach. If you have a passion for solving complex problems and creating impact for the engine of the American economy, you’ll love it here.

Role

Product Design Manager

Location

Hayes Valley, San Francisco, CA

Job Description

We’re looking for a Product Design Manager to lead and grow a team of talented designers. This role is central to delivering high-quality, user-centered design across complex workflows. You’ll shape the end-to-end product experience, elevate design craft and systems, and play a key role in cross-functional strategy alongside Product and Engineering.

You’ll combine deep UX thinking with an eye for visual detail to deliver elegant solutions that drive measurable impact. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker, a strong design advocate, and an empathetic team leader who thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments. If you’re excited about turning real-world logistics challenges into delightful and intuitive software, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach: Manage and mentor 2-4 designers, run crisp critiques, and build a career ladder that scales
• Set the bar: Own the design system and raise quality through repeatable processes, design reviews, and data-driven decision making
• Ship meaningful work: Partner with PM, Engineering, and ML Data Scientists to deliver end-to-end experiences for our core platform and new AI initiatives
• Be the Voice of the User: Turn complex driver, dispatcher, and analyst workflows into simple, elegant UX that saves hours and gallons at scale
• Measure & Iterate: Define success metrics, synthesize research + usage data, and rapidly prototype to validate ideas before they hit the road

Basic Qualifications

• Design people leader: Managed 2-5 ICs and knows how to grow talent while keeping projects on track
• Player-coach mindset: Comfortable switching between strategy, pixels, and Figma hotkeys
• Bias for action: You default to “let’s build a v1 today” over “let’s schedule another meeting”
• Depth in product design: 5+ years creating B2B SaaS or complex workflow products with a portfolio that shows both craft and systems thinking

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Product Design
• Exposure to logistics, transportation, or other heavy-ops domains
• Start-up or high-growth experience; you thrive in ambiguity and wear multiple hats
• Familiarity with AI/ML-driven UX patterns

Perks

• Competitive salary and bonus structure
• Annual bonus and Long Term Incentive Plan participation
• Hybrid work schedule
• 401k with matching
• Medical, Dental, and Vision health coverage
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (15% discount to market value)
• Hyper-stable, publicly traded enterprise
• Collaborative, fun, and tech-forward office in Hayes Valley (San Francisco)

Compensation Range

The annual base salary range for this position is $184,000 - $245,000. Compensation will vary based on factors including skill level, proficiencies, transferable knowledge, and experience. In addition to base salary, Baton's full-time employees are eligible for an annual performance bonus.

Why You Should Join

• Have an immediate impact: With Ryder’s existing customer base of 50,000+ companies and an internal headcount of 43,000, the scale and impact of our products will be large and far-reaching, from day one.
• Opportunity to grow and lead in a Fortune 500 company: You’ll get to work in a rapidly growing, startup-like environment while having the stability and backing of Ryder and its full executive team.
• Creative, fast-paced environment to solve impactful problems in Supply Chain: We’re going to design completely new tools for an industry that hasn’t been rethought in decades. And to do this, we need people who think differently.

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