Product Design Manager
ActiveCampaign
Product, Design
Kraków, Poland
Posted 6+ months ago
Great design solves customer problems, drives business success, and creates intuitive, delightful experiences. As a Product Design Manager, you'll lead and support a team of designers, helping them grow in their careers while delivering high-quality, user-centric solutions.You’ll coach and mentor designers, provide feedback to strengthen their craft, and foster an environment of learning and growth. In this role, you’ll also partner closely with cross-functional teams to align design efforts with business objectives, ensuring we create experiences that drive impact.
What your day could consist of:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams—Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Customer stakeholders—to develop and iterate on products and initiatives.
- Work closely with Product leadership to contribute to the roadmap, backlogs, and prioritization efforts.
- Translate business goals and product strategy into thoughtful design solutions that drive customer and business impact.
- Support and mentor designers, providing guidance to help them grow in their craft and careers.
- Facilitate design discussions to align teams, encourage feedback, and ensure clarity in execution.
- Critique and guide design work to uphold quality, consistency, and feasibility across projects.
- Ensure projects stay on track, meeting milestones and deadlines while balancing team capacity.
- Advocate for a strong user experience, leveraging customer feedback, usability insights, and data to inform design decisions.
- Contribute to and evolve our design system, improving efficiency, consistency, and the overall product experience.
What is needed:
- Strong foundation in Product Design & Product Thinking, with a track record of designing user-centric, impactful experiences.
- Leadership and communication skills that foster collaboration across teams and stakeholders.
- Critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, with experience managing trade-offs and balancing business and user needs.
- 5+ years of experience in design, with prior experience mentoring or managing designers.
- Ability to guide and support a team, providing feedback, career growth opportunities, and design direction.
- Project management skills, ensuring work stays on track and meets deadlines.
- Proficiency in design tools such as Figma and emerging AI-driven design tools
- Attention to detail, ensuring high-quality design execution
- A self-starter, growth mindset, driven by curiosity and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities effectively.
- Excellent presentation and storytelling skills, effectively communicating design decisions to stakeholders
This is an exciting time to join ActiveCampaign as we build out our new office in Poland. You will be a large part of developing our office culture in this new Krakow hub location.
About ActiveCampaign:
ActiveCampaign’s email and marketing automation platform helps businesses, entrepreneurs, and creators turn ideas into results. By combining your data, AI, and 950+ integrations (including Shopify, Facebook, Salesforce, and Square), ActiveCampaign makes it effortless to create personalized experiences across the entire customer lifecycle.
As a global multicultural company, we are proud of our inclusive culture which embraces diverse voices, backgrounds, and perspectives. We don’t just celebrate our differences, we believe our diversity is what empowers our innovation and success. You can find out more about our DEI initiatives here.
ActiveCampaign is the trusted choice to help businesses like yours automate your growth and get more out of your marketing. ActiveCampaign holds the highest customer satisfaction rating among Marketing Automation, E-Commerce Personalization, Landing Page Builders, and CRM solutions on G2.com and is one of only a handful of software solutions with over 13,500 positive reviews. Learn more and start your free trial at ActiveCampaign.com.
Perks and Benefits:
At ActiveCampaign, we prioritize employees’ well-being and professional growth by cultivating a culture centered on collaboration and innovation. When you join our team, you’ll not only have the opportunity to make a significant impact, but also enjoy a range of benefits tailored to support your personal and career development.
Here are some of the benefits we offer:
-Comprehensive medical and dental benefits paid 100% by ActiveCampaign for you and 50% for your dependents
-Reimbursements on vision expenses
-MultiSport Plus card to support your active lifestyle
-Complimentary access to mental health resources through Calm and TELUS Health EAP
-Generous paid time off and leave of absence options
-Pension scheme with matching up to 1.5% of your contribution
-Home office stipend to cover your commuter, or work from home expenses
-Access to professional development resources through LinkedIn Learning
-Baby swag for every baby born and/or adopted - we love to see our AC family grow!
-After five years of service, you’ll be eligible for a four-week paid sabbatical leave, accompanied by a sabbatical leave bonus
ActiveCampaign is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, hire, pay, grow, and promote no matter of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, marital status, political opinion, national origin, social origin, parentage, workers union membership, economic status, religion, age, health condition, disability or any other grounds protected by law.
Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) strive to foster a diverse inclusive environment by supporting each other, building a strong sense of belonging, and creating opportunities for mentorship and professional growth for their members.