Product Design Manager - Dashboard

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. The design team at Plaid is made up of product designers, researchers, and content strategists who work with our cross-functional partners to create Plaid’s products. Please visit https://designedbyplaid.com/ to learn more about the Design team. As a Product Design Manager on the Dashboard team, you will manage a multidisciplinary team of product designers and a researcher, leading design efforts across multiple product areas at Plaid. As a member of each area’s cross-functional leadership team, you will partner closely with product and engineering to shape direction and outcomes. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include coaching individual contributors, driving high-quality design execution, and collaborating with PM leads to develop product strategy. Alongside owning near-term delivery, you and your team will also define and advance the long-term vision for how Plaid’s products evolve. On the Dashboard team, we focus on shipping experiences and elevating the UX quality of Plaid’s Dashboard— a key surface area for customers and data partners. The Dashboard provides a variety of features and tools for launching with Plaid, integration monitoring, and account management and is the home of emerging insights products for payments and risk assessment. Responsibilities - Shipping delightful and easy-to-use experiences, whether they’re for customers or partners - Working on all types of problems: complex, ambiguous, large redesigns, small wins, internal demos, etc - Closely collaborating with engineering, product, and marketing teams from planning through execution - Producing high-quality work that not only pushes the experience forward, but inspires others and raises the quality bar - Working directly with design, product and engineering leaders, helping craft compelling narratives, strategies, and inspiring demos - Managing a team of ICs at different stages of their careers and coaching them to grow - Joining a team of talented designers and contributing to our design culture through collaboration and leadership Qualifications - 8+ years of product design experience - 3+ years of product design management experience - A portfolio demonstrating outstanding visual design, interaction design, problem-solving, and prototyping skills - Experience leading large-scale redesigns or net new products, working on ambiguous problems, and on complex B2B applications. - Experience managing a team of product designers to produce great work at scale - An outstanding communicator, storyteller, and facilitator, who can bring people together and build a shared understanding with an inspiring vision and narrative - Someone who is proactive, organized, curious, pragmatic, and can prioritize their own work independently to maximize their impact at the company Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are a