Security - UX - Product Design Manager

We are seeking a Product Design Manager who excels in both leadership and hands-on contribution. While your primary focus will be on managing and mentoring a team, you’ll also be ready to roll up your sleeves to review designs and provide clear direction, and actionable guidance.

You’ll lead a team driving innovation in GenAI-powered UX, Advanced Analytics, Analyst experiences, and Investigation workflows, making a substantial impact on our Security solution. Your role will include shaping and overseeing the product design roadmap, supporting the team in aligning their work with the broader security design strategy, and fostering a culture of excellence and growth.

Collaborating closely with other design managers, you will align on priorities and approaches to ensure a cohesive and consistent user experience across Elastic’s portfolio. You’ll also work alongside the Design Director to evolve and refine Elastic’s security design strategy, maintaining a balance between strategic oversight and diving into details to support timely and high-quality execution.

Key responsibilities include removing blockers for your team, providing strategic guidance aligned with our overarching design vision, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects. 

You will contribute to advancing design excellence within Elastic Security by collaborating with other solution design teams, the central design system team, and cross-functional partners. Your work will help shape design systems, cross-organizational design processes, and foster alignment to ensure consistency and scalability across Elastic’s products.

NOTE: Applications without a link to a Portfolio or a Case Study will not be considered. We appreciate your understanding.

Responsibilities:

• Support, influence, and lead the creation and management of the product design roadmap in line with the broader security design strategy.
• Mentor and support designers, helping them to develop their skills and careers
• Work with other design managers to prioritize projects and align design approaches, taking a holistic view of the user experience and ensuring that it is consistent across all products and platforms.
• Manage the team's work balance to ensure optimal productivity and creativity, while also paying close attention to the details of the design process and the user experience.
• Help execute projects on time by ensuring that the team is meeting milestones and deadlines
• Unblock projects by providing clear tactical directions that are inline with the design strategy
• Dive into details while staying strategic, balancing the need for excellence in execution with the need to be responsive to business needs
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design is integrated into product development

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in product design management
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Experience with managing product design roadmaps and delivering products on time
• Ability to mentor and support designers to help them develop their skills and careers
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate ambiguity
• Experience with cross-functional collaboration and ability to work with stakeholders from multiple departments
• Excellent understanding of design principles, trends, and best practices
• Ability to balance attention to detail with the ability to stay focused on the big picture

Nice-to-haves:

• Understanding and experience designing UIs that handle extensive data.
• Strong background in SaaS platform design and usability.
• Proficiency in creating and improving complex workflow designs.

If you are a talented and experienced Product Design Manager who can manage a team, mentor designers, and execute projects on time, we want to hear from you. Apply today and take the first step toward joining our Security Design team.