Product Design Manager

We're on a mission to make it possible for every person, team, and company to be able to tailor their software to solve any problem and take on any challenge. Computers may be our most powerful tools, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use on them every day. At Notion, we want to change this with focus, design, and craft.

We've been working on this together since 2016, and have customers like Pixar, Mitsubishi, Figma, Plaid, Match Group, and thousands more on this journey with us. Today, we're growing fast and excited for new teammates to join us who are the best at what they do. We're passionate about building a company as diverse and creative as the millions of people Notion reaches worldwide.

In this role, you’ll be one of the first design managers at Notion — and lead a group of designers who work across Notion’s core product, platform and administrative tools. You’ll be responsible for supporting designers and content strategists as they build, evolve and maintain Notion’s product, solving everyday problems our customers have with intuitive and approachable interfaces. You’ll help build a collaborative environment that invites input from research, engineering, product management, partnerships, marketing and more. You’ll help us define, grow, and foster a differentiated design culture that meets the very highest standards: investing in our people, processes and physical space alike.

Notion is an in person company, and currently requires its employees to come to the office for two Anchor Days (Mondays & Thursdays) and requests that employees spend the majority of their week in the office (including a third day).

• You'll help build and manage a team of product designers and content strategists that help define and inspire long-term direction, while delivering high quality products on a regular cadence
• You’ll ensure Notion remains simple, intuitive and approachable, by enabling designers to work across projects, products and teams.
• You’ll help define and evolve our processes and tools across offices, building constructive and healthy systems for sharing work and feedback between people, functions and teams.
• You'll help build the design function at Notion— setting what it's responsible for, how it interfaces with other teams, and how it'll grow and develop over time.
• You’ll set an extremely high bar for our craft and quality across visual design, interaction, UX and content; while staying focused on our customers’ needs and our company’s goals.

• You have a strong track record of shipping products that customers love.
• You have 2+ years of design leadership experience, with direct reports and ownership of company goals.
• You have 5+ years of design experience, building and shipping high quality products.
• You collaborate well cross-functionally—especially with research, product management, engineering and data— and pride yourself on being able to get teams of smart people working together towards strategic objectives.
• You have experience sharing and representing work in large forums, tailoring your communication to the needs of your audience.
• You have built, or are committed to building, diverse and inclusive product teams.

• You have experience working in product-led SaaS environments
• You have experience working with marketing and sales teams
• You've experienced the pain of fragmented tools and information silos created by them, and have a strong urge to fix it.
• You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understand why we're big fans of their work.

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation made due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in New York City, the estimated base salary range for this role is $190,000 - $260,000 per year. 

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