Senior Manager, Product Design - Product Platform
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Overview
CaptivateIQ is seeking a Senior Manager of Product Design to lead design for their Product Platform, ensuring a cohesive user experience across products. This remote full-time role offers a salary between $120,000 and $180,000. CaptivateIQ is a leading sales commission platform — recognized by industry analysts, including Forrester, as well as reputable marketplaces like G2. We are trusted by category leaders and innovators like Gong, Lattice, and DataRobot. With backing from Sequoia, Accel, ICONIQ, and other leading investors, CaptivateIQ is on a mission to enable every company to take control of commission management. Come and see why Glassdoor and Comparably have recognized CaptivateIQ as a best place to work!
What You'll Do
- •Lead, coach, and grow a team of product designers, including senior ICs.
- •Set the design strategy and quality bar for Product Platform in partnership with Product and Engineering.
- •Operate as a player-coach, personally shaping high-leverage or ambiguous problems while enabling your designers to own their domains.
- •Establish and maintain a high bar for interaction and visual design across complex, systems-heavy product surfaces.
- •Bring systems thinking to platform decisions, identifying cross-product implications and opportunities for shared patterns.
- •Represent Design in roadmap, prioritization, and architectural conversations.
- •Build alignment and drive decisions across teams through influence rather than direct authority.
- •Use research, product data, and customer signals to inform platform strategy and validate decisions.
- •Drive the adoption and evolution of Quotient as the shared design system across CaptivateIQ.
- •Champion AI-native product thinking and AI-assisted design practices across the team.
Benefits
- •Comprehensive Healthcare: 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision for all FTEs, with roughly 75% coverage for dependents.
- •Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation days plus quarterly mental health days to ensure you have the space to recharge.
- •Annual Stipends: Dedicated funds for your professional development and caretaking needs.
- •Work Anniversary Bonuses: Annual bonuses to celebrate your milestones and contributions to the CaptivateIQ team that grow as your tenure does.
- •Retirement Savings (US-Only): A 401(k) plan to help you invest in and secure your future.
- •Premium Tools: The latest Apple hardware to empower you to do your best work.
- •Inclusive Community: Active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that celebrate shared identities and support our DEI goals by fostering an environment where diverse talent thrives.
What You'll Bring
- •8+ years of product design experience, including experience with complex, systems-level, platform, or infrastructure-adjacent products.
- •3+ years managing product designers, including senior-level ICs, with a track record of growing designers into greater scope and responsibility.
- •A portfolio demonstrating strong product craft, systems thinking, and the ability to simplify technically complex experiences.
- •Strong visual and interaction design judgment, with experience setting a quality bar across a team.
- •Experience setting design strategy across interconnected product areas.
- •Experience building, evolving, or governing a design system.
- •Strong cross-functional leadership and a track record of influencing Product and Engineering decisions.
- •Technical fluency to engage meaningfully with Engineering on architecture, data models, and platform constraints, and translate those constraints into product decisions.
- •Fluency in how AI is changing both product experiences and design practice.
- •Experience designing complex B2B SaaS or enterprise products is a strong plus.