Senior Product Design Manager

Wrike is the most powerful work management platform. Built for teams and organizations looking to collaborate, create, and exceed every day, Wrike brings everyone and all work into a single place to remove complexity, increase productivity, and free people up to focus on their most purposeful work.
 
Our vision:  A world where everyone is free to focus on their most purposeful work, together. 
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We're looking for a strategic, hands‑on design leader who will make our product design org stronger, raise design craft, and partner with Product, Engineering and GTM leaders to drive meaningful business outcomes.As a Product Design Manager, you'll help define and drive the future of the Product Design organization. You will lead, identify, and set experience strategy, envision complex UX ecosystems, and inspire teams to push the boundaries of what's possible. You will form a clear vision of the future of our product experience and have the courage to pursue forward-thinking design. You will also apply your passion for customer needs, design thinking, prototyping, brand expression, craft, and design fidelity to guide research and design processes.  

About the Role:

Wrike product design team consists of 15+ full-stack product designers, three UX researchers, a Design System Architect, two UX Architects, three Design Managers, and a Head of Product Design. The team is distributed among different locations in Europe with the main hub located in Prague. All these professionals are inspired by each other, the broader organisation and by our customers.

Your Impact:

• Provide leadership, direction, and mentorship for a team of product designers.
• Lead vision, creative and holistic thinking across portfolio areas and product releases.
• Lead product design from the front, knowing how to empower designers in the team to do the best work of their career.
• Build strong relationships and operating rhythms with leaders inside and outside their core product teams to efficiently implement user experiences that are cohesive, inclusive, and well-informed.
• Advance and ensure coherent application of our design language system and platform architecture.
• Foster culture and principles within the group, while defining standards, documentation practices, and tools for execution and operational excellence.
• Engage in the design communities, representing Wrike and the Product Design Team.

Team Dynamics: 

We work in cross-functional product teams, as a Product Design Manager you'll be leading a team of passionate product designers and ensure smooth cooperation with both Engineering and Product departments. We believe our product experience will be our major driver of innovation and differentiation and our Product Design Managers are instrumental to our success. Our product is thriving in a highly competitive market and it's used by millions of people worldwide to achieve their best within their teams and organizations.

Your Qualifications:

• Significant professional product design experience (10+ years of relevant experience).
• Experience leading a team of product designers.
• Experience leading cross-functional activities and workshops using design-thinking methods to inform product strategy and planning.
• Up-to-date expertise in human-centered design best practices.
• Experience with customer research methods.
• Ability to visualize and prototype intended solutions at various levels of fidelity, from high-level wireframes or mock-ups to conceptual presentations to highly technical documents and diagrams.
• Ability to present designs to a wide range of audiences, including software development, quality assurance, learning content development, marketing, and sales.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex ideas to their essence.
• Experience with agile software design methods.

Standout Qualities:

• Cognitive Science / Ergonomics background.
• Software development background.
• Visual or graphic design background.

Why Join Wrike?

• Health insurance for you and your family
• SIM card with unlimited internet access for employees (provided during your employment)
• 25 paid vacation days
• 5 uncertified sick days per year
• 10 fully-paid continuous working days of sick leave per year
• School allowance of up to €600 per month (for children at school age)
• Up to 18 weeks of fully-paid maternity leave
• 2 weeks of fully paid paternity leave. 2 additional weeks which are provided by Wrike of fully paid paternity leave will be available for employees after 6 months of continuous service

Your recruitment buddy will be Alexandra Vorobyova, Lead Recruiter.

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Who Is Wrike and Our Culture
We're a team of innovators and creators who solve the complex work problems of today and tomorrow.

Hybrid work mode

Wrike promotes a hybrid model for team members near our office hubs in San Diego, Prague, Dublin, Nicosia, and Tallinn, with 2–3 in-office days per week to foster collaboration and teamwork. This work mode supports our culture of collaboration and solving problems fast to deliver business outcomes and win together.

Our persona 
  Smart: We love what we do, and we're great at it because this is our domain. Our combined knowledge in this space is unmatched.
  Dedicated: We get up every day focused on helping our customers win. We're committed to helping our teammates win, too
  Approachable: We're friendly, easy to get along with, considerate, and helpful. 
Our culture and Values 

Customer-Focused

We care about our customers. We understand the customer journey, experience, and value derived from Wrike. Decision-making and action-taking are done with the customer in mind.

Collaborative

We work as one and win together, each bringing unique strengths that contribute to diversity of thought for better outcomes. Leveraging our own work management platform, we foster an environment of creative collaboration and shared achievement.

Creative

We strive to succeed through continuous innovation. It's our pursuit of novel concepts that helped us create a market category. We continue to cultivate a workplace that fosters creative thinking as a means of transcending conventional boundaries and empowers us to break new ground to deliver extraordinary work management solutions. 

Committed

We believe in ownership at all levels of the organization, by owning workflows from start to finish. Each member of our team is an integral part of this commitment, establishing work as a platform for personal growth and transformation, as well as collective success and growth.

 

Check out our LinkedIn Life Page, Company culture page, Instagram, Wrike Engineering Team, Medium, , Youtube for a feel for what life is like at Wrike. 

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