Product Design Manager

Join Parachute Health as an experienced Design Manager in our scaling design studio, where you will work in a hybrid individual contributor and managerial role. You will contribute hands-on to innovative enterprise and productivity tooling experiences, while balancing managerial responsibilities for up to three direct reports across the larger design studio.

Hands-On Design, Research, and Advocacy

• Collaborate as a design lead with a cross-functional team to shape productivity tooling opportunities and ensure alignment around implemented design solutions
• Work closely with business stakeholders to resolve specific enhancement requests, identify broader opportunities, and design holistic solutions that benefit user experiences and productivity
• Effectively communicate design concepts through various mediums, including documentation, wireframes, storyboards, flow diagrams, and low-to-high fidelity mockups
• Contribute to building the culture of design at Parachute by advocating for user needs, design and research best practices, and excellence in design across teams
• Occasionally travel to conduct in-person research and validation with customers, about once per quarter

Mentorship and Management

• Foster a collaborative and growth-oriented design culture by mentoring other designers, sharing critique, and receiving critique to elevate the quality of our work
• Manage up to three direct reports, supporting growth goal definition, sponsoring opportunities, resolving blockers, contributing to skill development, and managing performance
• Collect and provide feedback to direct reports from cross-functional peers and coach underperformance where necessary

• Full Lifecycle Expertise: Experience spanning the entire product lifecycle, demonstrating contributions from initial discovery through high-fidelity design and implementation
• Technical Proficiency: Proficient in design tools such as Figma, Notion, and Miro, with a solid understanding of technical aspects related to product development
• Effective Collaboration: Proven excellence in collaboration and communication, with a track record of managing stakeholders on cross-functional teams
• Adaptability: Flexibility and motivation to thrive in a dynamic startup environment, working hand-in-hand with cross-discipline team members
• Human-Centered Design: A portfolio of work that demonstrates your human-centered design process and strong critical and conceptual thinking skills in complex problem spaces
• Leadership or Management Experience: Previous leadership or management experience is required.

• You enjoy working on high-complexity enterprise experiences, with a special interest in productivity tools, task management workflows, dashboards, and notifications
• Listening with empathy is a core value, helping you understand with intention, communicate with clarity, earn trust, and build collective wisdom with cross-functional teammates
• You are a data-informed designer, leading qualitative and quantitative research efforts that shape product decisions
• You find joy in simplicity and excel at simplifying complex ideas through thoughtful reduction
• You are a patient leader, thriving in ambiguous environments and energized by bringing out the best qualities of the people around you

• You aren’t seeking to focus on defining design systems or component-level visual details. Opportunities to collaborate with our design systems team will be plentiful, but your role is more focused on the application of existing components and patterns
• You aren’t seeking a highly structured work environment. Comfort with ambiguity is a must as Parachute scales and our product processes evolve. You will often work autonomously and define processes of your own
• You aren’t looking to immediately step into a management-only role. Candidates will be committed to balancing their own IC work with their people management responsibilities

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Remote-First Company with the option to work at our offices located in Denver and New York City
• Equity Incentive Plan
• Annual Company-Wide Bonus (up to 15%)
• Flexible Vacation Policy
• Summer Fridays - 5 Fridays Off During Summer (Separate From PTO)
• Monthly Internet Stipend
• Annual Home Office Stipend
• Co-Working Space Reimbursement
• Annual stipend for education and development

$155 - $180K