Product Design Manager

The role

You will lead and grow the Product Design team at Mirage. You will set the design vision, manage designers, and partner with executive, Product, and Engineering teams to shape product strategy.

What you will do

• Set the vision, strategy, and quality bar for Product Design across Mirage
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of product designers
• Build a world-class design team, shaping structure, capabilities, and culture
• Partner with executive, Product, and Engineering teams to shape product vision and roadmap
• Guide the design of complex, high-impact product initiatives from exploration through launch
• Establish a culture of critique, craft, and user-centered decision-making
• Translate emerging AI capabilities into intuitive interaction models

Required qualifications

• Track record of building, managing, and developing high-performing product design teams
• Significant experience designing and shipping complex consumer products, ideally across mobile and desktop
• Strong product judgment and exceptional design taste
• Ability to move between high-level strategy, people leadership, and detailed product critique
• Ability to create clarity in ambiguous environments
• Clear communicator who can inspire teams and explain design rationale
• Portfolio demonstrating strong systems thinking, high-quality craft, and meaningful impact on shipped products

Nice to have

• Designed AI-native products, creative tools, or products involving video, audio, image, or motion
• Helped build or scale a design function at an early-stage or rapidly growing company
• Strong point of view on how people will interact and create with AI
• Grounded, collaborative, and willing to do whatever it takes to help the team win
• Been a startup founder or an early design leader at one

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• 401K with employer match
• Commuter Benefits
• Catered lunch multiple days per week
• Dinner stipend every night if you're working late
• Grubhub subscription
• Health & Wellness Perks
• Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month
• Generous PTO policy

About the company

Mirage is an AI video company focused on making creation dramatically easier. They build multimodal agents, rendering engines, and generative video models for products like Captions and Tesseract.