About the Role
Title: Senior UX Manager, Design Systems
Location: Remote – USA
JobDescription:
About you
Youre looking to join a customer and product focused company where youll support a team of passionate individuals as you deliver the best product possible to help a mission driven organization Grow Better. Youre seeking an opportunity where youll:
- Co-own a significant part of the product with your partners and youll all have the autonomy you need to drive its strategy and vision.
- Be building a critical product and team within a scaling organization – we dont have all the answers and were counting on you to help explore the right problems
- Be able to work where and how you work best: at home, the office, or any mix of both
About the team
Our Design System is at an exciting inflection point. The design system, components, and documentation we created years ago helped us through significant growth and change. Yet, our scale has outpaced the system, and its time to make a deep investment in some big, key improvements to truly make it world-class. Youll have the opportunity to lead this growing team and the organization into the future by defining the next generation of the system.
Were looking for a strategically-minded, outcomes-oriented design leader to own and evolve our Design System.
Heres what success in your role looks like
- Foster trusted relationships across teams, creating shared roadmaps and vision for driving customer-focused outcomes across an organization
- Establish product objectives, goals, and strategic plays to inspire teams to execute
- Design the cultural conditions for company-wide changes to a global brand system, product design language, and operating model
- Demonstrate continued commitments to increasing team safety and belonging
- Facilitate manager level training and advocacy of the design system
- Partner with engineering and UX leaders, helping improve collaboration and drive team effectiveness and efficiencies
- Coach and develop a growing team while bringing a sense of mission and setting expectations for and driving great performance
- Be a thoughtful partner in helping UX leadership expand organizational design strategy and vision
- Create decision making frameworks and programs to govern product and design system excellence within an organization
- Deliver intuitive products – we value consumer-grade experience quality while solving enterprise problems
- Build deep domain in multiple product areas and using those insights to drive innovation and help guide the design system priorities
- Measure and track the impact of the design system on internal teams and external HubSpot customers
Youll love this role if you are
- An empathetic and supportive leader who values delivering actionable feedback and career growth guidance to help teams do their best work
- Committed to showing as a leader that youre invested in building a diverse, inclusive, and psychologically safe work environment
- Able to collaborate and influence across disciplines and levels of an organization
- Skilled at collaborating with adjacent teams to create consistency in the product experience
- Have a passion for design systems, helping teams connect the dots, and making the end-to-end customer journey seamless
- Experienced in guiding your team to identify impact that is great for customers and good for business
- Able to lead constructive critiques and have a developed sense for balancing quality, progress, and cohesion of design
- Able to support a team in managing through complex scenarios to find clarity from ambiguity
- Experienced in building, managing and scaling high-performing teams
- Someone who understands how to foster team health and brings a sense of mission to the group you lead. This includes being responsible for creating a safe space for feedback, thoughtful team organization, aligning strengths to problems and providing opportunities for career growth through additional responsibility or potential impact
- A leader who shares our HEART values and practices growth mindset