Superhuman

Senior Design Manager

26 days

ROLE

  • Build and manage a high-performing design team through mentorship, coaching, and clear goal-setting to drive both individual and collective growth
  • Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to plan resources, establish milestones, and ensure smooth delivery of design work across projects
  • Drive design quality and innovation by establishing robust review processes, feedback mechanisms, and design tooling infrastructure
  • Create and champion point-of-views on resolving UX debt and identifying opportunities for design innovation across products
  • Lead the planning and execution of discovery projects to develop new features and design directions, while de-risking design complexities
  • Guide the team in elevating their craft across UI/UX design, visual design, and product copy through hands-on mentorship and structured training
  • Develop and implement day-to-day design management processes and enablement tools to facilitate efficient, high-quality design work
  • Foster a team culture that embraces extraordinary quality, remarkable attention to detail, and continuous innovation
  • Provide strategic design leadership in project execution, from conception through launch, ensuring alignment with company principles and quality standards
  • Build strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, and senior leadership to influence product strategy and champion design excellence

SOUND LIKE YOU?

  • You have 8+ years of experience in consumer-facing technology companies or startups, with 3 years of experience leading and managing design teams.
  • You have a track record of leading and developing high-performing, inclusive, and mission-driven design teams.
  • You have a demonstrated mastery of product design, prototyping, visual design, interaction design, typography, and layout & visual hierarchy.
  • You have led the design strategy of a product, turning long-term objectives into initiatives that you and your teams successfully executed against.
  • You love exploring new and existing paradigms and are exceptionally curious about technology, design, product, and people.
  • You thrive in ambiguity and are excited by the opportunity to design processes that can help you understand, iterate, and validate your design ideas.
  • You understand human behavior and develop targeted strategies with this in mind, enjoying creating delight and moments of pleasant surprise.
  • You're able to distill complexity into clear and concise messaging and are effective across various mediums.

BENEFITS

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance: 100% coverage for you and 75% coverage for all your dependents.
  • Generous and flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) policy, with an average of 20 days per year.
  • $3000 per year towards professional development.
  • Custom MacBook Pro and $1000 budget for workstation setup.
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Superhuman is the fastest email experience ever made. Our customers fly through their inbox twice as fast as before. More than half hit Inbox Zero within 4 hours of starting. Experience renewed focus. Heightened productivity. And more time for what really matters.

We are a remote/hybrid team located throughout North & South America, Canada, and Mexico! Most of us work from home, but our HQ is in SF, and we have remote workspace options for those not located in CA. All employees receive a generous work-from-home stipend and timezone-friendly hours!

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