Senior Manager, Product Design

Xometry (NASDAQ: XMTR) powers the industries of today and tomorrow by connecting the people with big ideas to the manufacturers who can bring them to life. Xometrys digital marketplace gives manufacturers the critical resources they need to grow their business while also making it easy for buyers at Fortune 1000 companies to tap into global manufacturing capacity.

Xometry is hiring a Senior Manager of Product Design to lead a team of designers within one or more Strategic Product and Technology Organizations (STOs). You are accountable for delivery quality and team is not a coordination role. You are responsible for ensuring your team delivers clear high-quality executable design work on time with no surprises through leadership and hands-on execution. You will partner with Product and Engineering leadership to shape direction enforce standards and remove ambiguity.

How Youll Contribute:

Team Performance

• Lead and develop a team of designers (Senior and mid-level)
• Set clear expectations for ownership quality and communication
• Hold designers accountable for outcomes not just outputs
• Address performance issues directly and quickly

Product Thinking and Problem Framing

• Frame ambiguous problems into clear design direction before execution begins
• Ensure design decisions are grounded in user and business outcomes not aesthetics alone
• Drive clarity on what problem is being solved before work starts not after
• Push back on poorly defined requirements rather than accepting them at face value

Delivery and Execution

• Own design delivery across your team (quality pacing predictability)
• Ensure work is complete structured and ready for Engineering
• Enforce a clear definition of done
• Surface risks and tradeoffs early

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner with Product and Engineering to define scope and priorities
• Ensure design is influencing direction not reacting to requirements
• Resolve ambiguity and alignment issues quickly
• Act as an escalation point for unclear or misaligned problem framing

AI-Enabled Execution

• Ensure design outputs are structured and unambiguous
• Support workflows that enable AI-assisted development
• Drive adoption of tools and practices that improve speed and reduce rework
• Can describe specific AI-assisted design workflows not just tools used

Systems Thinking

• Ensure design decisions scale across surfaces platforms and future use cases
• Maintain coherence across the broader design system and product ecosystem
• Identify downstream implications of design choices on other teams work

Quality and Standards

• Maintain a high bar for interaction design usability and consistency
• Ensure alignment with design systems and accessibility standards
• Lead design reviews focused on clarity and execution readiness

What Youll Bring to Xometry:

• 10 years of experience in product design including 2 years managing designers
• Proven track record of driving product decisions through design and systems thinking
• Experience working closely with Product Research and Engineering teams
• Strong ability to translate ambiguous problems into clear executable design direction
• Experience operating in fast-paced product-driven environments
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills
• Examples of AI-assisted workflows in portfolio (e.g. AI-generated prototypes prompt-driven design systems AI-supported research synthesis)
• Experience with B2B marketplace or operational platforms
• Experience working with design systems and component-based design
• Exposure to AI-assisted design or development workflows
• Experience scaling teams or processes in growing organizations

The estimated base salary range for new hires into this role is $180000-$200000.00 annually bonus depending on factors such as job-related skills relevant experience and location. We also offer a competitive benefits package including 401(k) match medical dental and vision insurance; life and disability insurance; generous paid time off including vacation sick leave floating and fixed holidays maternity and bonding leave; EAP other wellbeing resources; and much more.

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Xometry is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran or disability status.

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