UX Design Manager Xcode & AI Developer Tools

The Developer Experience Human Interface Design team conceptualizes and designs the user experience for Apples developer tools. You will lead a team designing for Xcode and other tools used by millions of developers around the world to build test and ship software for Apple platforms. Youll work at the frontier of one of the most significant shifts in how software is authored empowering developers to do the best work of their lives by leveraging artificial intelligence and large language models.

Were looking for a design leader who is both a product thinker and a people builder someone who can set a compelling vision shape high-craft work and create the conditions for a team to thrive. AI is changing what developer tools can do and we want a leader who is actively engaged with that shift bringing clarity and direction on how to leverage capabilities that are rapidly taking shape. This role requires range. Youll carry your own design work while guiding projects across multiple domain areas give substantive expert feedback while knowing when to draw on others expertise and build deep trust with your team while navigating the organizational complexity of shipping at scale. Were looking for someone who can communicate and influence across disciplines and levels who understands what motivates different people and knows how to make designs perspective land.

Lead and grow a small team of designers providing creative direction grounded in your own expertise and mentorship that helps each person develop and a team through a period of rapid change building the design strategies processes and culture needed to navigate an industry that is shifting faster than any roadmap can your own design work on key projects while guiding direction across the broader substantive design feedback rooted in expertise not just facilitation deliver the difficult conversations when needed and know when to draw on specialists on your what motivates each designer on your team pair people with work and partners where they can do their best and drive their performance and career development over trusted partnerships with engineering managers and cross-functional leaders navigating organizational complexity to get projects what they need to move and influence across disciplines and levels helping designers on your team advocate for user-focused outcomes while balancing real constraints.

Experienced in a highly technical engaged with AI dev tools and excited by what they make product vision that unites technical requirements with user to build strong partnerships influence across organizations and lead a team to deliver high quality demonstrating product design leadership creative problem solving and high quality visual design.

5 years of industry experience as a UX designer Human Computer Interaction designer or related role.n2 years of design management experience.