Manager, Product Design

Posted 3 Days Ago
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San Francisco
Legal Tech
The Role
As a Product Design Manager, you will establish trust with the design team, hire new designers, lead and mentor teammates, build partnerships, contribute to product strategy, elevate design quality, and more.
Summary Generated by Built In

Contracts are the most important unsolved problem in modern business. Every company, in every country, in every industry runs on contracts, but managing these contracts slows companies down and costs them millions of dollars.


At Ironclad, we’re reimagining contracts by turning them from rate limiters on the business to accelerators. Ironclad is the #1 contract lifecycle management platform for innovative companies. L’Oréal, Staples, MasterCard, and other leading innovators use Ironclad to collaborate and negotiate on contracts, accelerate contracting while maintaining compliance, and turn contracts into critical carriers of operational business intelligence. It’s the only platform flexible enough to handle every type of contract workflow, whether a sales agreement, an HR agreement or a complex NDA. Ironclad’s innovation and work culture has been recognized by Forbes’ 50 Most Promising AI Companies in 2021, Fast Company’s 2020 Best Workplaces for Innovators, Fortune’s Best Small & Medium Workplaces 2021, Glassdoor’s best Machine Learning startup, Enterprise Tech 30 List, and is backed by leading investors like Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia, and BOND. For more information, visit www.ironcladapp.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.


As a Design Team, we believe that great companies, products, and brands are built upon experiences and the emotions they evoke. We operate as a centralized design team to enable those experiences across the entire customer journey. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Customer Success, and Operations teams to ensure a coherent experience at every step.

As a Product Design Manager, you'll:

  • Establish trust and psychological safety with design team
  • Identify strengths and growth areas of individual teammates
  • Hire 1-2 Product Designers in the next 6-12 months
  • Inspire and lead teammates through hands-on mentorship
  • Build strategic partnerships with Product, Engineering, Quality, and customer-facing teams
  • Contribute to the product strategy for several stages of the customer journey
  • Connect distinct parts of the journey by enabling design sprints and workshops
  • Use systems thinking and craft to elevate our product's design and quality bar
  • Lean on your management experience to evolve our recruiting strategy and process
  • Partner in elevating design team collaboration process including our critique and weekly "make time"
  • Engage with broader design community to elevate Ironclad's talent brand
  • Partner in refactoring career architecture to enable clearer through-lines for career growth in Design

You'll thrive as a Product Design Manager by:

  • Sharing your deep experience in shipping world-class SaaS and B2B products
  • Finding satisfaction in leading, coaching, and mentoring a team of talented designers
  • Connecting the dots between business objectives and team needs
  • Leading with empathy, candor, intent, respect, and a growth mindset
  • Scaling through systems and doing more with less

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401k
  • Wellness reimbursement
  • Take what you need vacation policy
  • Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

The Company
96 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Contracts are business decisions trapped in administrative tasks. Ironclad is software that does all the administrative work better left for a robot, freeing legal teams to do more substantive work and drive business strategy. By automating contracting processes and extracting intelligence from contracts, Ironclad lets legal teams focus on legal wo

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