Manager, Product Design, Growth (Upper Funnel)

The role

This Lead Product Designer will define and design end-to-end growth journeys including discovery, activation, and monetization. You will manage one to three designers while remaining a hands-on individual contributor.

What you will do

• Define user-centered discovery, activation, and monetization experiences.
• Deliver UX, visual design, and prototypes from concept to production.
• Use behavioral data and funnel metrics to inform design decisions.
• Design and lead experiments across acquisition, activation, and expansion funnels.
• Establish reusable growth patterns in the design system.
• Partner with engineers to ensure high-quality implementation.
• Manage one to three designers through 1:1s, goal setting, and feedback.
• Mentor designers working on growth-adjacent surfaces.
• Lead workshops for pricing, packaging, onboarding, and upgrade opportunities.
• Collaborate with research, data science, and product to define success metrics.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience, ideally in SaaS, productivity tools, collaboration software, or product-led growth environments.
• 2+ years of managing other designers
• A track record of leading growth, monetization, or conversion-focused design work
• Deep fluency in funnel thinking
• Strong data instincts to read behavioral data and interpret experiment results
• Exceptional craft in visual clarity, spacing, motion, and interaction polish
• Systems thinking
• Experience mentoring or leading other designers
• Strong communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with pricing architecture, packaging strategy, or monetization model design
• Deep experience mapping and designing activation journeys
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted tools and vibe coding to prototype growth flows
• Background in organic acquisition or activation funnels at scale
• Familiarity with AI-assisted experiences or contextual intelligence in growth flows
• Experience working with data science teams on experimentation frameworks or causal inference
• History of shaping 0→1 growth systems or redesigning broken acquisition or retention loops

About the company

Mural is reimagining how teams think and create together. The Design and Research team shapes experiences that help people collaborate, ideate, and solve problems visually.