Product Design Manager
Sunnyvale, California, US
Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - we're just getting started.
WhatsApp is looking for a Product Design Leader with design, communication and people management skills. As a Product Design Leader, you will lead and manage teams to ensure our products and features are valuable for people, easy to use, and of the highest level of craft and execution. In this role, you'll be a foundational member on the leadership team, working together with your counterparts in engineering, data science, UX research, content design, and other disciplines to define the strategy, operations and communications that guide the team to build great products addressing real user needs. You’ll be expected to utilize your full range of people management skills, product strategy, product design, interaction design and visual design skills.
Responsibilities
Build and manage a talented team of product designers and leaders that consistently delivers on projects and is well-balanced across a range of design skill sets
Responsible for overall team performance and health, resource allocation, project prioritization
Lead and oversee the user experience of a product from conception to launch in partnership with product managers, engineers, UX researchers and content designers
Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into useful and valuable products for our billions of users
Contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of Meta’s products
Design end-to-end flows and experiences that are simple and elegant for our supported platforms
Define, craft and evolve designs within visual systems and/or standard
Proactively solicit and provide feedback from designers and a broader product team in order to continually raise our bar for quality, while also taking on mentorship
Cultivate a healthy design process for the team, and be a key contributor to your organization's product strategy
Effectively communicate your team's product goals (both within the team and outside the team), and connect related projects across the company so that problems or joint decisions can be resolved quickly
Minimum Qualification
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with 8+ years of experience in Product Design
4+ years of experience of design leadership experience with direct reports under your guidance and leadership
8+ years of experience working collaboratively with product, engineering, design, content and user research teams
Experience building and shipping applications or software across a variety of platforms
Experience leading product direction and strategic thinking with the experience developing product goals, identify opportunities, and make decisions based on the impact to people and the company
Experience representing work to a broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succinctly articulating the goals and concepts
Preferred Qualification
Experience with delivering 0-1 products from concept stages to launch
Experience working on large scale, complex, ambiguous projects across multiple teams
Experience managing managers
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