Senior Manager, Product Design

The role

You will lead a team of senior and principal product designers for the Vertical Solutions portfolio. You will set design strategy, build design systems, and lead AI-native design and delivery processes.

What you will do

• Set the design strategy and communicate a cohesive experience vision.
• Manage and develop a team of senior and principal designers.
• Identify shared user needs and interaction patterns across industries.
• Build design systems and reusable components.
• Lead AI-native design and delivery using tools like Claude Code and Codex.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to influence priorities.
• Champion user research and direct customer engagement.
• Communicate design strategy and build alignment with leaders.
• Build and ship code and critique work when necessary.

Required qualifications

• Proven experience leading product design teams.
• At least two years managing a team of five or more designers.
• Background in product design for enterprise SaaS, business-user products, or consumer digital experiences.
• Ability to establish design strategy across multiple products, teams, or business domains.
• Deep systems thinking and experience developing or scaling design systems.
• Hands-on experience designing with an AI-forward process using tools like Claude Code and Codex.
• Experience shipping production code alongside engineering partners or leading designers who do.
• Track record of influencing product managers, engineers, and stakeholders.
• Experience using research and customer engagement to inform design decisions.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas and build alignment.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and navigating competing priorities.

Nice to have

• Experience designing AI-powered, agentic, or automation-driven products.
• Experience spanning multiple industries like healthcare, financial services, or consumer technology.
• Familiarity with GitHub and modern frontend development workflows.
• Experience leading distributed teams or collaborating across North American and European time zones.
• Experience evolving design organizations toward AI-native, code-first ways of working.

About the company

UiPath creates category-leading enterprise software that uses the transformative power of automation. The Vertical Solutions team brings agentic AI into industries like healthcare, financial services, and the office of the CFO.