Product Design Manager — Lead Security UX

Bitwarden; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bitwarden seeks an Associate Product Design Manager to lead a small design team while remaining hands-on in crafting user-centered security interfaces. You will coach designers, align with product managers and engineers, and drive design decisions across the Bitwarden platform.

You'll guide design priorities, contribute to user flows and prototypes, and ensure accessible, high-quality outcomes for desktop, mobile, web, and extensions. This role blends management with craft and impact.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in product design with some leadership/mentoring experience
• Strong UI craft, systems thinking, and ability to solve complex UX problems across platforms
• Proficiency in Figma and familiarity with other design tools and collaboration platforms
• Experience planning and facilitating user research, testing sessions, and design critiques

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and grow a small team of product designers with 1:1s and career development
• Partner with product managers and engineering leads to set design priorities and roadmaps
• Contribute to user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and prototypes
• Facilitate design reviews to maintain high-quality, accessible work
• Lead and participate in user research and testing cycles with evidence-based decisions
• Communicate design rationale clearly to stakeholders and leadership
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase team velocity
• Uphold and evolve Bitwarden’s design system across desktop, mobile, web, and browser extension

Skills

Product design

Leadership

Mentoring

User research

Communication

Design systems

Figma

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Figma

Claude

Loveable

Replit

ChatGPT

Adobe

GitHub

Job description

Bitwarden seeks an Associate Product Design Manager to lead a small design team while remaining hands-on in crafting user-centered security interfaces. You will coach designers, align with product managers and engineers, and drive design decisions across the Bitwarden platform.

You'll guide design priorities, contribute to user flows and prototypes, and ensure accessible, high-quality outcomes for desktop, mobile, web, and extensions. This role blends management with craft and impact.