Manager, Product Design (hybrid)

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · Arlington, VA +2

CrowdStrike is seeking a Product Design Manager to lead a team of designers, ensuring exceptional design outcomes for their AI-native cybersecurity platform. The role involves partnering with product management and engineering, mentoring designers, optimizing team processes, and fostering design excellence. While the company leverages AI, this role focuses on product design management rather than direct AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a team of distributed team designers, inspiring them to deliver world-class user interfaces for products in our platform.
  2. Partner with peers in design, engineering, and product management to prioritize, track, triage, organize roadmap priorities, and manage team allocation accordingly.
  3. Communicate and socialize design objectives and principles to the broader team.
  4. Mentor and coach designers within and outside your squad to foster accountability, elevate design craft, and grow their professional careers.
  5. Optimize team processes and structures to enhance strategic influence, handoff quality, and cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

Required

  • Strong leadership skills working with designers, PM/Eng partners, and other managers.
  • Servant leadership, fostering teamwork.
  • Excellent communication (written and verbal).
  • Hands-on enterprise B2B SaaS product design expertise.
  • Flexible context-switcher (people/resourcing for multiple projects).
  • Self-driven, growth-oriented, open to feedback.
  • Data-driven decision-making.
  • Ability to create alignment among stakeholders.
  • Outstanding collaboration in a fast-paced, highly distributed environment.
  • At least 3 years of people management experience.
  • Online portfolio.

Nice to have

  • Experience in platform level design.
  • Experience in product design for Cloud infrastructure, ERP, or other data-heavy SaaS product areas.
  • Knowledge of the cybersecurity industry.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native platform
  • cybersecurity