What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Design Manager position at Menlo Ventures Management, L.P?
About the role
The following information aims to provide potential candidates with a better understanding of the requirements for this role.
We’re seeking a talented Design Manager to join the growing Product Design team at Chime. You’ll oversee our expansion into new financial products and enable our members to access money when they need it, build credit, and grow wealth. You’ll manage designers and roadmaps while contributing to critical cross-functional projects. Your focus will be both making finance simple for our members and making the Chime design team amazing for our employees.
As a Design Manager, you’ll be responsible for developing and growing a product design team. You’ll guide designers towards quality design and UX outcomes for our members while teaching them to stay mindful of business needs and constraints. You’ll lead by example as you facilitate cross-functional collaboration and identify opportunities for the design team to operate more strategically, holistically, and effectively. You’ll work closely with the Design Director as you establish a gold standard for design execution and a vision for the future of Chime’s products. Most importantly, you’ll work with each designer on career development and personal growth, ensuring that Chime isn’t just a job, but a place designers can launch their careers.
In this role, you can expect to
- Advocate for and enable user-first design decisions, ensuring that our products solve real problems effectively and meaningfully.
- Empower your team by providing mentorship, clear direction, and removing obstacles to help them succeed.
- Set and uphold a high standard for design excellence, serving as a role model and advocate for design within Chime and beyond.
- Key partner contributing to roadmapping, priority setting, and design delivery across multiple product development teams.
- Effectively communicate design vision and decisions, fostering collaboration and alignment with cross-functional partners, including product managers, engineers, researchers, and executives.
- Implement and manage design project management best practices, including creating Gantt views to track timelines, dependencies, and deliverables. Ensure alignment with team capacity and business goals, fostering cross-functional collaboration and driving timely delivery of high-quality design outputs.
- Manage and iterate upon our team processes, support career growth, and foster a collaborative and inclusive design culture.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, wearing multiple hats, helping to work on any project as needed.
To thrive in this role, you have
What we offer
We know that great work can’t be done without a diverse team and inclusive environment. That’s why we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas to join our team. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.
We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Cook County Ordinance, and consistent with Canadian provincial and federal laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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