Full-Time Senior Manager Product Design & UX
Workleap is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Manager Product Design & UX. The career level for this job opening is Senior Manager and is accepting Canada based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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As a Senior Manager, Product Design & UX, you will drive the design vision for ShareGate, one of Workleap’s flagship product lines. ShareGate simplifies Microsoft 365 management, providing IT teams with intuitive solutions to migrate, manage, and secure organizational data for digital workplaces.
You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and cross-functional teams to create seamless, user-centric experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Drive the strategic vision for design, ensuring alignment with business goals, product strategy, and user needs.
- Balance customer needs, business priorities, and technical constraints to drive user-centered design.
- Elevate design maturity by embedding research, data insights, and experimentation into decision-making.
- Develop and mentor design talent, fostering career growth, leadership development, and craft excellence.
- Ensure operational excellence, optimizing execution across short- and long-term roadmaps while improving processes and team efficiency.
- Facilitate collaboration and alignment, leading design critiques, stakeholder discussions, and strategic decision-making.
- Define success metrics and measure impact, ensuring design decisions drive meaningful business and user outcomes.
Team:
The ShareGate Product Design & UX team at Workleap - a multidisciplinary team of talented content and product designers.
Team Challenges:
- Lead your team to design delightful experiences while ensuring every design decision aligns with user needs and business goals.
- Scaling design across multiple product lines while keeping teams aligned.
- Bridging disciplines, streamlining collaboration, and ensuring every design decision balances user needs and business impact.
Who you are:
- Own up, taking initiative and accountability to drive impactful design outcomes.
- Listen to understand, building deep customer empathy to create meaningful solutions.
- Tell it like it is, fostering open debate, challenging ideas, and committing to the best outcome.
- Win as one team, collaborating across functions, empowering others, and embracing diverse perspectives.
- Take the leap, thinking boldly while upholding a high standard of execution and craft.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in product design, with at least 5+ years leading and mentoring teams.
- Degree in Design, HCI, Human Factors, or equivalent experience.
- Proven ability to drive design excellence—leading teams to create high-impact, user-centered solutions.
- Deep expertise in product design execution, from strategy to prototyping, documentation, and asset delivery for web and mobile.
- Strong business acumen, with experience aligning design strategy with business goals and influencing senior leadership.
- Exceptional storytelling and communication skills, translating complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives.
- Experience scaling and managing high-performing design teams (5-10 designers or groups of teams), fostering career growth and a culture of innovation.
- Strategic mindset with strong leadership, collaboration, and organizational skills to drive impact across teams and product lines.