Senior Product & Design Operations Manager

PagerDuty; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Volunteer time (20 hours/year)

Health insurance

Wellness Days

Parental leave

Generous PTO

Flexible work from home

Career development programs

Job summary

PagerDuty is seeking an AI-Forward Sr. Product & Design Operations Manager to join our diverse, customer-focused team.

You will partner with Product and Design leadership to build the operating system that lets both functions plan with rigor, launch with confidence, and improve continuously. In this pivotal role, you will define how product work is scoped, planned, prioritized, tracked, and released, establishing planning discipline, cross-functional launch mechanisms, and customer feedback

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Product Operations, Design Operations, Business Operations, or a similar role.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional launches or releases involving Engineering, Marketing, Support, and Customer Success.
• Experience creating and maintaining operational documentation, guidelines, and standards.
• Experience partnering with Finance on software capitalization, cost classification, or R&D accounting requirements.
• Experience designing customer feedback systems with closed-loop notification to customers.
• Experience working in enterprise software/B2B SaaS environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison for Product and Design on the AI Transformation initiative.
• Define the Product Operations function with planning discipline and clear requirements.
• Build cross-functional workflows for major customer-facing changes.
• Own the process and evidence trail for capitalizable R&D work with Finance.
• Partner with Customer Success for closed-loop customer feedback and rapid updates.
• Automate operating rhythms for Product and Design teams, including planning cadence and workshops.
• Lead vendor management, tooling budget oversight, and administration for Product and Design.
• Enable research operations with agentic workflows and reusable customer research mechanisms.
• Define, track, and report KPIs for product and design effectiveness.
• Create onboarding programs for new Product and Design team members.

Skills

Product Operations

Design Operations

Cross-functional coordination

Project Management

Analytics / KPIs

Stakeholder Management

Vendor Management

AI/ML workflows

Tools

Claude

Job description

• Serve as the primary liaison for Product and Design on the Product Development AI Transformation initiative, driving team enablement by building custom Claude skills, and operationalizing AI best-practice workflows across both organizations
• Define the Product Operations function at PagerDuty — establishing the planning discipline that ensures product work enters execution with clear scope, articulated requirements, defined success metrics, and the data to support prioritization
• Build cross-functional workflows for launching significant customer-facing changes — coordinating Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Support, Legal, and Customer Success through a repeatable readiness process
• Own the process and evidence trail for capitalizable R&D work in partnership with Finance — establishing clear classification criteria, and making it easy for product and engineering to consistently and defensibly categorize their work
• Partner with Customer Success on a closed-loop process for product feedback with accountability for capturing clear customer needs and delivering rapid responses and regular updates
• Automate the operating rhythms of the Product and Design teams, including planning cadence, design sprints, cross-functional workshops, and office hours
• Lead vendor management, tooling budget oversight, and administration for Product and Design
• Enable research operations through agentic workflows, including insights management and the mechanisms that make customer research reusable across teams
• Define, track, and report on key performance indicators for product and design effectiveness — planning accuracy, launch readiness, cycle time, intake responsiveness, and feedback loop speed
• Create and maintain comprehensive onboarding programs for new Product and Design team members
• Partner with Product and Design leadership to establish operational vision and strategic priorities, and proactively identify opportunities for operational improvement
• Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture across Product and Design through team-building initiatives and cross-functional partnerships
• PagerDuty is seeking an AI-Forward Sr. Product & Design Operations Manager to join our diverse, customer-focused team!
• As Product & Design Operations Manager, you will be a strategic partner to Product and Design Leadership, building the operating system that lets both functions plan with rigor, launch with confidence, and improve continuously
• In this pivotal role, you will define how product work is scoped, planned, prioritized, tracked, and released — establishing the planning discipline, cross-functional launch mechanisms, and customer feedback loops that turn intent into delivered outcomes
• You will partner with Engineering, Finance, and Customer Success to bring structure to how significant changes reach our customers, and you will use agentic tools to build intelligent workflows, and custom AI skills
• This is an exciting opportunity to transform how PagerDuty’s product organization operates, innovates, and delivers business value in the age of AI
• The ideal candidate is a forward-thinking operator with expertise in product operations, working knowledge of design and research practices, and a proven track record of building products and processes for teams

Benefits

• 20 hours per year of paid volunteer time
• Health insurance
• Wellness Days and mid-year Wellness Week: extra time off for whole company to unplug and recharge at the same time
• Generous paid parental leave and return to work policy to help with transition back
• Generous paid time off
• Flexible workplace/WFH
• Hands-on career and leadership development programs

Experience building agentic AI workflows with Claude or similar toolsDemonstrated ability to work autonomously and drive initiatives independently across teams you do not ownStrong project management and organizational skills, with a track record of building processes that run without their author5+ years of experience in Product Operations, Design Operations, Business Operations, or a similar roleExperience coordinating cross-functional launches or releases involving Engineering, Marketing, Support, and Customer SuccessExperience creating and maintaining operational documentation, guidelines, and standardsDemonstrated experience establishing planning and prioritization processes across a product organizationExperience partnering with Finance on software capitalization, cost classification, or R&D accounting requirementsExperience designing customer feedback ("Voice of Customer") or request intake systems, including closed-loop notification back to customersExperience working for enterprise software companies, ideally B2B SaaS

Familiarity with design systems, component libraries, and UX research methodologiesExperience developing and implementing onboarding programsExperience in change management and organizational transformationTrack record of implementing measurable process improvements and KPIs