Senior Manager, Product Design (f/m/d)

The role

You will lead a team of product designers working on content performance optimization, application platform capabilities, business foundations, and design systems. You will balance strategic design leadership with people management, coaching designers and partnering with product and engineering leadership.

What you will do

• Manage designers across content performance optimization, application platform capabilities, business infrastructure, and design systems
• Coach designers on career growth and give them ownership over platform pieces
• Partner with product and engineering leadership on strategy
• Define AI-native design leadership at Contentful
• Influence roadmap decisions and represent design in cross-functional planning
• Drive visioning initiatives
• Maintain a high bar for design craft and provide actionable feedback
• Lead design for complex, multi-team product areas
• Shape and evolve product design function practices

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience
• 3+ years directly managing and developing product designers
• Strong track record of partnering with product and engineering leadership at the strategy level
• Customer-centric orientation
• Track record of design leadership extending beyond own team
• Portfolio reflecting strong interaction and visual design fundamentals
• Track record of leading design for complex, multi-team product areas
• Experience owning or contributing to a design system at scale
• Demonstrated success managing distributed, global teams
• Interest in AI-native product design
• Portfolio evidence of coaching designers' career growth
• Comfort operating in a technically complex, enterprise/platform context

Nice to have

• Experience at a B2B SaaS or platform company
• Familiarity with design systems like Forma 36

About the company

Contentful is a composable content platform that is now part of Salesforce. It powers how leading brands create, manage, and deliver digital experiences.