Design Leadership Manager

7 days ago


Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Xero Full time

Your Responsibilities

  1. Work with the GM Product Design and other Product Design Directors to manage your product design team, programs, and processes that support a world-class design team.
  2. Solve problems together and work as a team to influence and drive key strategic initiatives forward.
  3. Collaborate with others on the Design Leadership Team to cultivate a vibrant team culture, work on strategies, problem-solve, and respond to team or organizational needs.
  4. Provide vision and enthusiasm, supporting your leads and designers to continually challenge themselves and their work.
  5. Identify and prioritize future roles based on team workload, wellbeing, development, and business priorities.
  6. Recruit, onboard, and manage new Product Designers of all seniority, providing direction, mentoring, coaching, and feedback.
  7. Partner with the operations team to manage logistical aspects like team budgets, training, and performance.
  8. Maintain standards and rigour across the practice, through product principles, process, and systems.


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