Airtable is looking for a Product Design Manager, Enterprise to join our enterprise growth team. In this role, you’ll lead a small team of designers while staying hands-on, focusing on AI adoption for large organizations. You’ll split your time between people leadership and individual contribution, driving design quality from the front.
What You'll Do
- Manage 1-3 product designers: provide clear ownership, direct feedback, and the support they need to grow and do their best work.
- Own your team’s feedback culture, setting a high bar in a constructive way.
- Know each person’s growth edges; give specific feedback, create stretch opportunities, and invest in their development.
- Manage resourcing for your area: scope work to match capacity, flag tradeoffs early, and protect your team from overload.
- Partner with PM and engineering leads to define roadmaps and success metrics, and execute against them.
- Use design-led exploration—early concepts, AI prototyping, jams—to help your team define problems and solutions.
- Engage directly with enterprise customers and users.
- Own end-to-end design for significant work in your area, from problem framing through final details, alongside your team’s projects.
- Set the quality bar through your own output as much as through feedback.
- Stay close enough to the work that your perspective is sharp and grounded in business and technical nuances.
What We're Looking For
- 1-2 years of prior experience managing designers.
- Strong and current design craft: you produce work you’re proud of and can articulate why it’s good.
- Energized by both sides of the role (leading a team and doing the work) and able to manage your time across both.
- Gravitate towards complex problems, thriving on wrangling order and simplicity out of ambiguity.
- Like saying ‘we’ more than ‘I’.
- A self-starter who champions a good idea until it turns into something that works.
- Enjoy leading in a dynamic, quickly evolving environment.
- Inspire your colleagues to be the best versions of themselves.
Team & Environment
You will manage 1-3 product designers as part of the enterprise growth team, working closely with PMs, engineering, designers, other managers, and PMMs.
Airtable is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive.
