Product Design Manager II, Ad Formats
Lead the Ad Formats Performance Pod as a player-coach Product Design Manager. Set vision for consumer and advertiser ad experiences, AI automation, and high-quality conversion outcomes while managing a team of four designers and staying hands-on with execution. Requires 7+ years Product Design experience including 2 years managing, strong craft in design systems and visual principles, and comfort partnering with PM/EM in fast-paced experimental environments.
About the job
What you’ll do
- Set the vision and point of view for the Ad Formats Performance Pod — spanning consumer-facing ad experiences, advertiser-facing creation tooling, ad formats creation, and AI automation adoption and growth — and bring others along to think bigger and innovate.
- Operate as a player-coach: alongside managing a team of four designers, stay hands-on and own executional design work yourself, with or without additional IC support.
- Partner closely with your product and engineering counterparts to define product strategy, roadmap, process, and culture for the Ad Formats Performance Pod.
- Be comfortable in a fast-paced, data-driven, experimental environment — without ever losing sight of the big picture and true user needs.
- Uphold and inspire a high level of design execution across the team, through both mentorship and hands-on demoing across projects.
- Grow the people on your team through coaching and mentorship.
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate how your team works, and pioneer new ways to use AI in the team's process and within the product experience.
What we’re looking for
- Proven track record of envisioning, shipping, and iterating on digital ad products in close partnership with product management and engineering.
- Has a learner and builder mindset: Able to quickly onboard emerging AI tools and implement them appropriately in the full product development process with a focus on decision quality, craft and efficiency. Mentors and educates team members.
- Ability to balance the needs of multiple stakeholders and lead multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Clear, confident communication skills: you can explain complex design decisions and tradeoffs in ways that align cross-functional partners.
- Meticulous attention to detail and a high bar for quality across flows, states, and edge cases.
- Experience designing within and extending design systems. Deep understanding of layout, typography, color, and other core interaction and information design principles.
- High level of self-awareness and a growth mindset, you seek feedback and use it to grow your craft and impact.
- 7+ years in Product Design (or equivalent), 2 years of management experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in design, a related field or equivalent experience.
Skills
Product Design, Design Systems, AI Tools, Typography, Layout Design, Interaction Design, Information Design, Mentorship, Stakeholder Management, Digital Advertising
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