Product Design Manager

Company Description

Sense is a diverse, collaborative team tackling one of the most universal challenges in today’s workforce. With a mission to change the way companies engage with talent, we’re creating a better experience for employers, recruiters, and candidates. Your work at Sense will impact millions of people around the globe and will be instrumental in evolving an entire industry. Join us in shaping the workforce of the future!

Founded in 2015, Sense is a high-growth HR Tech SaaS startup with offices in the Bay Area and Bangalore. It has 300+ team members, serves 700+ customers, and has grown 100% year-over-year since launch. We have raised $90M in funding, backed by GV (Google), SoftBank, Accel, and Avataar Ventures.

As a part of the Sense team, you’ll play an active role in shaping and developing our products and processes. Our founders are lifelong entrepreneurs with a history of building, scaling, and successfully exiting large companies. At Sense, your career goals will be supported through active mentorship and learning and development opportunities. We’re an experienced team and looking for great people to add to our team.

Job Description

We’re looking for a seasoned Design Manager to lead the growing design team in our Bangalore office. To begin with, this is a player-coach role. You will be mentoring and coaching the product designers to excel at their craft, help elevate the design maturity across product pods, and have hands-on design responsibility on strategic design projects. You will report to the Head of Design in California. 
 

What You'll Do

• As the senior most design leader in our Bangalore office, represent design at the highest level, manage a team of 3 product designers, and help scale and grow the team
• Be the hands-on design lead for strategic design projects; own the end-to-end product design lifecycle from problem definition to ideation, validation, implementation, and future iterations
• Facilitate design workshops and bring design thinking to the forefront of product strategy discussions
• Help define frameworks and UX patterns for how we communicate the ROI of our products with analytics and insights to various customer segments, user personas and decision-makers
• Drive design process, collaboration, and operations optimisation
• Help define and inspire long-term direction while delivering high-quality products on a regular cadence
• Ensure Sense remains simple, intuitive, and approachable by enabling designers to work across projects, products, and teams
• Define and evolve our processes and tools, building constructive and healthy systems for sharing work and feedback between people, functions, and teams
• You’ll set an extremely high bar for our craft and quality across visual design, interaction, UX, and content; while staying focused on our customers’ needs and our company’s goals
• This is a hybrid role with a mix of people management and hands-on design responsibilities
• Be part of a global team responsible for the user experience, brand design, and user research to support all product initiatives at Sense

Qualifications

What We're Looking For:

• You have a strong track record of shipping B2B SaaS products that customers love
• Some experience in Recruiting, HR tech or Talent Engagement domains
• You have 3+ years of design leadership experience, with direct reports and ownership of company goals
• You have 7-10 years of hands-on product design experience, building, and shipping high-quality products
• You collaborate well cross-functionally—especially with research, product management, engineering, and data— and pride yourself on being able to get teams of smart people working together toward strategic objectives
• You have experience sharing and representing work in large forums, tailoring your communication to the needs of your audience
• You have built, or are committed to building, diverse and inclusive product teams
• You will be comfortable with a hybrid work setup, with at least 3 days in the Bangalore office 

* Please include a portfolio of product design case studies (Online or PDF)

Bonus Points:

• Experience designing for data-driven products
• Experience working with marketing and sales teams
• Understand the pain of fragmented tools and information silos created by them, and have a strong urge to fix them

Additional Information

Perks & Benefits

• Medical, dental insurance for employees and dependents
• Quarterly Professional Development allowance
• Company Wellness Days (On months without holidays, you are still given a 3-day weekend)
• Equity

Sense is an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that diversity, inclusion, and belonging are integral to our success, and do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, age, or any other basis protected by law.