Product Design Manager, Self Serve
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500000 organizations including 80% of the Fortune 100 rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.
Airtable is the AI-native app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500000 organizations including 80% of the Fortune 100 rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.
Our Self Serve team owns the growth engine of Airtable - how people discover value adopt AI native workflows and become long-term customers. We focus on onboarding activation conversion expansion and monetization across the product experience.
Were looking for a Product Design Manager to lead design for Funnel & Monetization. Were hiring a product design manager to lead this team while staying close to the craft of design: youll split your time between people leadership and hands-on design. Youll partner deeply across Product Engineering Data and Marketing to create experiences that are intuitive cohesive and measurably effective.
What youll do
Lead and develop your team
- Manage 1-3 product designers: give them clear ownership direct feedback and the support they need to grow and do their best work.
- Own your teams feedback culture. Set a high bar in a way thats constructive - your designers should know what good looks like and feel equipped to get there.
- Know each persons growth edges. Give feedback thats specific create stretch opportunities and invest in their development.
- Manage resourcing for your area: scope work to match capacity flag tradeoffs early and protect your team from overload.
Shape strategy with your cross-functional partners
- Partner with PM and engineering leads to define roadmaps and success metrics in addition to executing against them. Design has a voice in what and how something gets built.
- Use design-led exploration - early concepts AI prototyping jams - to help your team define the problem and solution space.
Contribute as an individual designer
- Own end-to-end design for significant work in your area from problem framing through final details alongside your teams projects.
- Set the quality bar through your own output as much as through feedback.
- Stay close enough to the work that your perspective is sharp and grounded in the nuances of specific business and technical inputs.
Who you are
- Youve managed designers before. 1-2 years of prior experience means that youve given feedback that changed someones work navigated a hard conversation and started developing your own management style.
- Your design craft is strong and current. You produce work youre proud of and can articulate why its good. Youve shipped features that required both strategic thinking and close attention to detail and you want to keep doing that.
- Youre energized by both sides of the role. You see how leading a team and doing the work are complementary can manage your time across both and have a point of view on it.
- You like saying we more than I. Your team and functional partners will be a collaborative bunch and youll be working closely with PMs engineering designers other managers PMMs and more. We are greater than the sum of our parts.
- You just go for it. There are lots of opportunities to have a measurable impact as a self-starter here. You dont hesitate to champion a good idea until it turns into something that works.
- You enjoy leading in a dynamic environment. Airtable is evolving quickly. Were looking for people who can motivate and keep momentum through uncertainty
- You inspire your colleagues to be the best versions of themselves
We genuinely admire and respect each other which motivates us to show up as our best selves and take pride in the work we do together.
Airtable is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We welcome people of different backgrounds experiences abilities and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status or any characteristic protected by applicable federal and state laws regulations and ordinances. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
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Compensation awarded to successful candidates will vary based on their work location relevant skills and experience.
Our total compensation package also includes the opportunity to receive benefits restricted stock units and may include incentive compensation.To learn more about our comprehensive benefit offerings please check outLife at Airtable.
For work locations in the San Francisco Bay Area Seattle New York City and Los Angeles the base salary range for this role is:
$224000 - $317200 USD
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Required Experience:
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About Company
Airtable was founded on the belief that software shouldn’t dictate how you work—you should dictate how it works. Our mission is to democratize software creation by enabling anyone to build the tools that meet their needs. Creators and creatives around the world use Airtable to do ever ... View more