Product Design Manager

As a Product Design Manager at Weave, you will guide and mentor a team of product designers while operating as an equal strategic partner alongside Product and Engineering collaborators. You will serve as the bridge that unites design, product, and engineering to build cohesive, human-centred experiences. Weave is the all-in-one communication and engagement platform for healthcare practices. Reports to: Director of Product Design.

Responsibilities

Strategic & execution partnership: operate as an equal strategic partner with Product and Engineering to identify, shape, and prioritize product strategy and roadmaps; Experience vision: lead experience vision and advocacy for product areas with the team; Cross-boundary opportunities: proactively identify strategic UX opportunities that span areas and the product; Team enablement: position designers to operate upstream by coaching them to champion user needs and shape priorities; Design quality and direction: direct design reviews focusing on craft quality and strategic direction; People development: inspire, motivate, and support designers, and ensure alignment of motivations and performance with organizational outcomes through performance management; Hiring and retention: hire designers and build a team capable of strategic partnership; Strategic research: identify and organize user research initiatives that span multiple groups; Domain expertise: understand technology and features of managed areas and the end-to-end Weave platform

Requirements

2+ years of formal design management experience OR 4+ years of equivalent team leadership as a Lead Individual Contributor in a complex product environment; 5+ years of hands-on product design experience at a product-led software company; Cross-Functional Partnership: demonstrated track record of co-leading product strategy alongside Engineering, Product Management, and Data teams; Systems & Strategy: mastery in driving adaptable UX strategies and translating complex data workflows and user insights into flexible, scalable, and intuitive design systems; Remote Leadership: a clear, empathetic philosophy on guiding and inspiring distributed design teams across time zones; Adaptability: comfort navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, and emerging technologies (like AI/LLM tools)

Nice to have

Customer Empathy: cares deeply about the day-to-day reality of healthcare practices and designs around their true workflows; Clarity in Ambiguity: turns messy problems into clear paths forward without waiting for permission; Systemic Vision: looks across product surfaces to find patterns, simplify complexity, and build scalable solutions; Bar Raiser: mentors generously, gives constructive feedback, and inspires the team to raise standards; Relationship Builder: builds high-trust partnerships with Product and Engineering