Senior Manager, Product Design - Growth

The role

You will lead and develop product designers across multiple teams and provide strategic leadership to the KOHO Design System team. You will help teams turn uncertain opportunities into clear product directions and design experiments for growth and zero-to-one initiatives.

What you will do

• Lead and develop product designers across multiple teams or a large, complex area.
• Set a clear design direction across zero-to-one and growth initiatives.
• Coach teams through experimentation using customer insight, research, data, and prototypes.
• Balance growth velocity and unit economics with customer value, quality, and trust.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, Research, and Marketing teams to shape strategy.
• Represent Design in roadmap, resourcing, timeline, and quality discussions.
• Support the KOHO Design System team through strategic direction, prioritization, and coaching.
• Build operating practices, feedback loops, and decision frameworks.
• Identify needed capabilities and help attract, hire, onboard, and develop designers.
• Use AI-enabled tools responsibly to accelerate exploration, synthesis, and prototyping.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years experience designing and shipping consumer-facing digital products
• 4+ years experience leading and developing product design teams
• Experience leading designers working on ambiguous, high-impact, or consequential problems
• Meaningful zero-to-one and/or growth experience
• Deep design-systems expertise
• Ability to influence product strategy, roadmap decisions, scope, and prioritization
• Excellent communicator

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, financial services, or another complex domain

Benefits

• Work-life integration
• Asynchronous collaboration
• Flexible hours
• Remote-first setup

Before you apply

• KOHO uses artificial intelligence (AI) in certain aspects of its recruitment process to screen, assess, or select applicants.

About the company

KOHO is a performance organization on a mission to make financial services better for every Canadian through products designed to help users spend smart, save more, and build real wealth. They prioritize work-life integration and a remote-first setup built around autonomy and high trust.