Senior Design Manager - Product Platform & Systems

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Flexible time off

Annual stipends

Work anniversary bonuses

401(k) plan

Apple hardware

Inclusive ERGs

Job summary

CaptivateIQ is seeking a Senior Manager of Product Design to lead the Product Platform, the shared capabilities powering multiple products. You will guide a design team toward a coherent, scalable system, setting high-quality standards and shaping high-leverage problems.

You’ll partner with Product and Engineering leadership to evolve the platform, drive design strategy, and ensure a consistent, trustworthy user experience across products and workflows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience, including complex, systems-level or platform products.
• 3+ years managing product designers, including senior ICs, with a track record of growth.
• Strong portfolio showing systems thinking and craft across interconnected products.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of product designers including senior ICs.
• Set design strategy and quality bar for Product Platform with Product and Engineering.
• Operate as a player-coach, shaping high-leverage problems and enabling designers.
• Maintain high interaction and visual design standards across complex surfaces.
• Apply systems thinking to platform decisions and cross-product patterns.
• Represent Design in roadmap, prioritization, and architectural discussions.
• Drive alignment across teams through influence.
• Use research and data to inform platform strategy and decisions.
• Drive adoption and evolution of Quotient as the shared design system.
• Champion AI-native product thinking and AI-assisted design.

Skills

Systems thinking

Design leadership

Portfolio

Design system

B2B SaaS

AI in design

Technical fluency

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic design

Mentoring designers

User experience

Job description

CaptivateIQ is seeking a Senior Manager of Product Design to lead the Product Platform, the shared capabilities powering multiple products. You will guide a design team toward a coherent, scalable system, setting high-quality standards and shaping high-leverage problems.

You’ll partner with Product and Engineering leadership to evolve the platform, drive design strategy, and ensure a consistent, trustworthy user experience across products and workflows.