Senior Manager, Product Design

The posting, as Digible wrote it

The Role

Digible is hiring a Senior Manager, Product Design to define what Product Design is at Digible. This is a player/coach role: roughly three-quarters of your time doing hands-on design across our pods as a shared design resource, and a quarter building the design function — managing and growing our Product Designer, and establishing our design principles, design ops, design system, design career ladder, and design job descriptions from first principles.

Above all, we're looking for an expert in designing data, analytics, and intelligence products: someone who takes dense performance data and makes it engaging, delightful, trustworthy, and AI-forward, so customers want to open it, understand it on their own, and act on it.

You'll be the most senior design voice in the company, partnering with product managers, engineers, agency leaders and leadership to make design a durable competitive advantage — in a company where reporting clarity, customer experience, operational excellence, data storytelling, and trust are the product. You'll lead AI transformation for the design practice, and you'll set the foundations (and the bar) that every future design hire builds on. You'll report to the VP of Product.

We're a small product org inside a profitable, bootstrapped company — nine years successful before the recent AI wave, and now in the middle of an AI transformation, reinventing how an established company operates and thrives in the AI era. Profitability and bootstrapping mean you'll work on real customer and business problems, not a search for product/market fit, with a direct line to an accessible leadership team. You'll use AI throughout your workflow to move faster and more effectively than a team our size normally could.

You'll Love This Job If You Love

Products with…

• 📊 Data, Analytics & Intelligence: a portfolio where making data engaging, delightful, and trustworthy IS the product's competitive edge
• 🏢 Internal Products, SaaS-Level Ambition: internal agency teams as primary users today — a portfolio ready to be elevated into innovative, SaaS-quality experiences as we evolve toward serving customers directly
• ✨ AI: deciding what AI should surface, summarize, and say in front of a customer, and defining what AI-native design practice looks like for a whole company

Roles with…

• ⚖️ Player/Coach Balance: staying hands-on in the craft while building the function and the team
• 🏗️ Founding Scope: writing the design principles, design system, design ops, and design career ladder from page one

Organizations with…

• 🚀 Small Teams: working with small teams that trade scale for agility & autonomy
• 🏗️ Early Foundations: crafting the systems, rituals, and mindsets of a relatively new product org

Cultures with…

• 📅 4-day Workweek: we work Mon–Thu, so every weekend is a long weekend
• ⚖️ Modeled Balance: we know work is a part of life — boundaries are modeled by leadership

Businesses with…

• 📈 Fast Growth: this isn't

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he taste to define what "great" means

• AI-forward design practice: hands-on with AI tools and opinionated about where they fit in the craft
• Comfortable leading through ambiguity with minimal infrastructure and incomplete information

Preferred

• Start-up to scale-up (50-200 people) experience
• First-design-leader or founding-designer experience
• Experience designing AI features customers rely on (summaries, recommendations, conversational interfaces) and the trust and explainability patterns around them

Bonus

• Digital marketing domain knowledge
• Real estate domain knowledge (ex: rentals, multifamily, single family, etc.)

This role is open to candidates located within the United States.

While this job description outlines the core expectations of the role, it’s not a full list of everything you’ll do at Digible. We believe in leaning in by hitting your key goals, sharing insights, and finding new ways to elevate performance, process, and client success.

Pay, Perks and More!

• Salary Range: $160k - $190k annually
• 4-Day Work Week (32 Hour Work Week)
• WFA (Work From Anywhere) OR 1 Day / Week Remote
• Discretionary Bonus
• We offer 3 weeks of PTO as well as Sick leave, and Bereavement.
• We offer 11 paid holidays! (not counting ones that fall on Friday!)
• 401(k) + Match
• 75% Employer Paid Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, and Vision)
• Mental and Physical Wellness Reimbursement Benefit
• $1000/year travel fund for employees who have been with Digible 3+ years
• Paid Parental Leave
• Dog-Friendly Office
• Monthly Social Events
• Weekly lunches and snacks for in office employees!

HEADS UP! We believe in transparency throughout our hiring process. To help us ensure a great fit, we'll ask you to share a few professional references during the hiring process who can speak to your experience and skills. It’s all part of our commitment to open, honest communication and our core values: Focus, Authenticity, Humility, Curiosity, and Happiness.