About the Role
Title: Senior Manager, Platform Design
Location: Remote US
Job Description:
Reports to: Head of UX
Location: Remote US
Compensation Range: $180,000 to $200,000 base plus bonus and equity
What You’ll Do:
The Product Design team at Huntress is driven by our mission to deliver cybersecurity to the 99%, and our process reflects that. As the Senior Design Manager for our Platform, you will lead design efforts on the Huntress Platform, which intuitively ties together all of our products and services in an easy-to-use way. As part of your role, you will be in charge of managing the Design System and the team of designers working on the Platform. Your responsibilities include establishing and upholding a unified vision for all Platform designs, ensuring consistency and cohesion across the board.
You will lead the way to ensure a human-centered approach by gathering user feedback, designing thoughtful user journeys, and crafting efficient and easily consumable user interfaces. You will validate designs through user testing, surveys, and similar methods. You will drive product development and features by collaborating with product managers and engineers to address details and craft effective user experiences. As a fully remote design team, you will take part in virtual design critiques, where you will have the opportunity to give and receive feedback on design choices.
The ideal Design Manager is passionate about human-centered, empathy-driven, accessible, and inclusive product design and embraces a fast-paced and iterative design process.
Responsibilities:
- Leading efforts on product and feature development
- User Research (Journey Maps, feedback review, interviews)
- User Interface Design and Modernization (Mockups, Prototypes, Design Systems)
- UX Documentation (interaction rules, contributing to design system, Workflow Design)
- Sitemap improvements (Information Architecture)
- Build and manage a small team of designers.
- Provide constructive feedback to your direct reports while leading by example.
What You Bring to the Team:
- 8+ years of experience in User Experience Design with 5+ years of experience managing and mentoring a team of designers
- Skilled at expressing & communicating design rationale
- Ability to gather and analyze quantitative & qualitative data
- Excellent web design skills, with an understanding of Web Development
- Proven expertise in designing power-user SaaS experiences and interfaces
- Strong familiarity with human-computer interaction psychology principles
- Proficiency in working within an iterative design process and motivation to give and receive group feedback
- Proficiency with design software (we use Figma)
- Comfortable working in a high-growth environment, able to adjust priorities as business needs change
- An online design portfolio is required for this position
Preferred:
- Experience with Bootstrap & Tailwind design systems
- Designing for or working in the cybersecurity field
- Data visualization techniques
- Proven track record of product modernization
- Web Development programming aptitude
- Previous Core Platform Design experience
- Degree in design, psychology, computer science, or related field preferred