Remote Product Design Manager & Design Systems Leader

Roo; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stipends for home office setup

Comprehensive health benefits

401K

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Job summary

Roo is seeking a design lead to act as a player-coach, doing hands-on design while growing a design team. You will join Roo's product team, shaping craft across squads and driving meaningful business impact while raising the standard of design excellence.

You’ll own end-to-end projects in Figma, set a high quality bar, mentor designers, and build scalable design systems that leverage AI. This remote role includes occasional travel to San Francisco for key meetings.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience with 2+ years of management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to grow, coach, and support senior designers.
• Strong portfolio across visual design, interaction design, systems thinking, and user-centered craft.
• Experience building and scaling design systems.
• AI fluency in design practice and practical use of AI to accelerate work.
• Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous spaces and turn ideas into concepts.
• Strong cross-functional communication with leadership.
• Experience with user research methods and guiding teams to learn from users.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a 5-person Product Design team and support designers' craft and strategy.
• Elevate design competencies into a clear, explicit standard used across the company.
• Drive career development conversations and performance reviews with BU leaders.
• Contribute hands-on design work on real problems and unblock the team.
• Partner with leadership to align design direction with product strategy and company goals.
• Build and strengthen design systems and leverage AI to enable prototypes from real components.
• Shape design practices across discovery, concept, interaction, prototyping, and delivery.
• Encourage exploration while grounding decisions in user needs and market realities.
• Advocate for customer experience across surfaces and reflect real needs in decisions.

Job description

Roo is seeking a design lead to act as a player-coach, doing hands-on design while growing a design team. You will join Roo's product team, shaping craft across squads and driving meaningful business impact while raising the standard of design excellence.

You’ll own end-to-end projects in Figma, set a high quality bar, mentor designers, and build scalable design systems that leverage AI. This remote role includes occasional travel to San Francisco for key meetings.