About the job
Product Design Manager
Join Olly Olly as a Product Design Manager and lead our dynamic product design team. This pivotal role combines leadership with hands-on design, allowing you to shape the future of our products while mentoring a talented group of designers. You will dedicate 70-80% of your time to guiding your team and enhancing their work, with the remaining 20-30% spent directly contributing to high-impact design initiatives.
At Olly Olly, we believe in the power of practical, swift, and thoughtful design. We are seeking a visionary who integrates AI into the design process, utilizing LLMs and prototyping tools to accelerate workflows, clarify concepts, and validate ideas early, all while upholding the highest standards of craftsmanship, usability, and clarity.
You will report directly to our Chief Product Officer and collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to ensure that exceptional designs become tangible products, not just visual mockups.
Your Leadership Team
UX/UI Product Designer (in-app)
UX/UI Product Designer (in-app)
UI/Web Designer (marketing and brand-adjacent)
Your Responsibilities
Oversee the daily management of a three-member design team, facilitating design reviews, removing obstacles, providing constructive feedback, and elevating the quality of outputs.
Develop and maintain the design system and visual language for our core product, ensuring a cohesive experience across all screens and interactions.
Create UX flows, wireframes, and prototypes for new features from initial problem identification through to production-ready specifications.
Conduct design quality assurance to ensure that built products align with designed specifications.
Enhance collaboration between product, design, and engineering teams, ensuring design is integrated early in the problem-definition phase.
Work alongside engineering and product teams on sprint planning, roadmap prioritization, and decision-making regarding trade-offs.
Review output from the UI and web designer to ensure brand and product design remain visually consistent.
Foster a culture of prototyping and early validation, encouraging the team to test ideas before full-scale implementation.
