Product Design Manager

Who you are

• A track record of building, managing, and developing high-performing product design teams
• Significant experience designing and shipping complex consumer products, ideally across mobile and desktop
• Strong product judgment and exceptional design taste, with the ability to raise the bar from early product thinking through polished execution
• Able to move fluidly between high-level strategy, people leadership, and detailed product critique
• Comfortable creating clarity in ambiguous environments and making thoughtful decisions with imperfect information
• A clear communicator who can inspire teams, explain design rationale, and align people around a shared direction
• A portfolio that demonstrates strong systems thinking, high-quality craft, and meaningful impact on shipped products
• You’ve designed AI-native products, creative tools, or products involving video, audio, image, or motion
• You’ve helped build or scale a design function at an early-stage or rapidly growing company
• You have a strong point of view on how people will interact and create with AI as the technology evolves
• You are grounded, collaborative, and willing to do whatever it takes to help the team win
• You have been a startup founder or an early design leader at one

What the job involves

• Set the vision, strategy, and quality bar for Product Design across Mirage, ensuring the user experience remains cohesive as the product and company grow
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of product designers, providing clear direction, thoughtful feedback, and meaningful opportunities for growth
• Build a world-class design team, shaping the structure, capabilities, and culture of the function over time
• Partner closely with the executive, Product, and Engineering teams to shape product vision, strategy, and long-term roadmap
• Guide the design of complex, high-impact product initiatives from early exploration through launch, helping teams turn ambiguous problems into clear and compelling experiences
• Establish a strong culture of critique, craft, and user-centered decision-making while creating the processes that help the team move quickly without sacrificing quality
• Translate emerging AI capabilities into intuitive interaction models and product experiences across text, image, audio, motion, and video

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• Anything you need to do your best work
• We’ve done team off-sites to places like Paris, London, Park City, Los Angeles, and Nashville with more planned in the future