Product Design Manager

Required

• Experience managing a team of product designers while remaining hands-on with design work yourself - you genuinely enjoy both sides of the player/coach role
• Strong product design fundamentals with a portfolio that shows work on complex, technical, or developer-facing products; comfort designing for power users and nuanced workflows
• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle and the ecosystem around it — CI/CD, version control, CLIs, APIs, and the workflows that connect them. You don t need to be an engineer, but you should be curious about how developers work and have designed for (or around) these kinds of tools before.
• Active, thoughtful use of AI in your own design practice - you ve already been experimenting with tools like AI-assisted prototyping and production-ready coding, and you have a point of view on where they help and where they don t. You re excited to bring the team along and set expectations that AI fluency is part of the job
• Proven experience building or evolving design systems - not just maintaining a component library, but defining governance, contribution models, and the operational rhythms (rituals, rubrics, processes) that let a design team scale
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills - you partner effectively with Product and Engineering leaders, give direct and kind feedback, and create space for a diverse team to do their best work
• United States Base Pay Range
• $167,000 $208,750 USD
• We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
• CircleCI is the world’s largest continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, and the hub where code moves from idea to delivery. As one of the most-used DevOps tools - processing more than 3 million jobs a day - CircleCI has unique access to data on how the most effective engineering teams work, and the tools to help software companies successfully leverage the power of AI into their commercial applications. Companies like Hinge, HuggingFace, and Samsung use us to improve engineering team productivity, release better products, and get to market faster.
• Founded in 2011 and headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a global, remote workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Base10, Greenspring Associates, Eleven Prime, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Baseline Ventures, Threshold
• Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Owl Rock Capital, Next Equity Partners, Heavybit, and Harrison Metal Capital.