[Remote] Product Design Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Workato is a leader in enterprise infrastructure, redefining iPaaS and helping enterprises unify data, applications, processes, and AI. The Product Design Manager will lead a small team, own design direction for complex product areas, and collaborate closely with stakeholders to define product strategy and execution.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design direction for your product areas—from early vision and strategy through delivery and iteration
• Stay hands-on with design work: take on complex problems directly, set the quality bar, and model the standard for your team
• Design for technically deep domains—API management, data orchestration, MCP—where your job is to make powerful, infrastructure-level capabilities feel coherent and usable to sophisticated enterprise users
• Drive design reviews and critiques that sharpen the work, build team craft, and establish shared standards
• Incorporate AI-assisted capabilities thoughtfully into products, helping users leverage automation intelligence where it adds genuine value
• Manage, mentor, and grow your team with clear expectations, regular feedback, and genuine investment in their development
• Pair the right designer with the right project, and jump in where your seniority and perspective add the most leverage
• Build a team culture that is rigorous, low-ego, and committed to doing great work
• Partner with product managers and engineering leaders to shape roadmaps and define what gets built—not just design what's already been decided
• Represent design in executive reviews, product strategy discussions, and cross-functional planning
• Communicate design decisions clearly and persuasively to non-design audiences
• Advocate for users and design quality when priorities compete
• Work with researchers to frame the right questions, bring user insight into the design process, and validate decisions with appropriate rigor

Skills

• 7+ years of product design experience, with at least 2 years in a formal or informal leadership capacity - managing designers, leading design direction across a team, or owning a major product area end-to-end
• A portfolio that demonstrates ownership of complex, end-to-end design problems. Bonus points for work in enterprise SaaS, developer tools, workflow automation, or other technically complex domains
• Deep technical fluency. You're comfortable working on features involving concepts like data transformations, API configurations, schema mapping, and automation logic. You can go deep with engineers on implementation tradeoffs
• Proven ability to lead and grow designers. You've given substantive feedback, had hard conversations, and helped people level up
• Proficiency in Figma and a strong command of design systems—knowing when to extend them and when to hold the line
• Experience working at pace in a fast-moving environment. You manage ambiguity without freezing, delegate without abdicating, and stay hands-on without micromanaging
• Strong stakeholder management skills. You can navigate competing priorities, bring partners along, and defend design decisions with clarity and confidence
• Exceptional interaction design instincts. You think in systems, flows, states, and edge cases, and you hold a high bar for craft and usability

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