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Senior Manager, Product Design - Product Platform

CaptivateIQ· Product & Design – Product Design Team
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Hybrid (Remote USA / Toronto)$180k - $260kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Manager of Product Design to lead design for CaptivateIQ's Product Platform, guiding a team to create a coherent, system-like shared platform across products, with hands-on contribution and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of product designers, including senior ICs.
  • Set the design strategy and quality bar for Product Platform in partnership with Product and Engineering.
  • Operate as a player-coach, personally shaping high-leverage or ambiguous problems while enabling your designers to own their domains.
  • Establish and maintain a high bar for interaction and visual design across complex, systems-heavy product surfaces.
  • Bring systems thinking to platform decisions, identifying cross-product implications and opportunities for shared patterns.
  • Represent Design in roadmap, prioritization, and architectural conversations.
  • Build alignment and drive decisions across teams through influence rather than direct authority.
  • Use research, product data, and customer signals to inform platform strategy and validate decisions.
  • Drive the adoption and evolution of Quotient as the shared design system across CaptivateIQ.
  • Champion AI-native product thinking and AI-assisted design practices across the team.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of product design experience, including experience with complex, systems-level, platform, or infrastructure-adjacent products.
  • 3+ years managing product designers, including senior-level ICs, with a track record of growing designers into greater scope and responsibility.
  • A portfolio demonstrating strong product craft, systems thinking, and the ability to simplify technically complex experiences.
  • Strong visual and interaction design judgment, with experience setting a quality bar across a team.
  • Experience setting design strategy across interconnected product areas.
  • Experience building, evolving, or governing a design system.
  • Strong cross-functional leadership and a track record of influencing Product and Engineering decisions.
  • Technical fluency to engage meaningfully with Engineering on architecture, data models, and platform constraints, and translate those constraints into product decisions.
  • Fluency in how AI is changing both product experiences and design practice.
  • Experience designing complex B2B SaaS or enterprise products is a strong plus.

Skills

Required:Team leadership and coachingDesign strategySystems thinkingDesign systemsCross-functional leadership
Nice to have:AI-native product thinking

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Healthcare: 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision for all FTEs, with roughly 75% coverage for dependents.
  • Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation days plus quarterly mental health days.
  • Annual Stipends: Dedicated funds for professional development and caretaking needs.
  • Work Anniversary Bonuses: Annual bonuses.
  • Retirement Savings (US-Only): 401(k) plan.
  • Premium Tools: Apple hardware.
  • Inclusive Community: ERGs supporting DEI goals.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About CaptivateIQ

Agile commission software to design, deploy & adapt commission plans.

CaptivateIQ is on a journey to modernize the world of incentive compensation. Our hope is that people will feel more connected at work if there is greater transparency in how they are rewarded for their efforts. We partner with amazing companies like Carta, Intercom, Gong, and Newfront Insurance to simplify their commissions. Since launching in 2017, we have raised $63M and are backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Accel, S28 Capital, Amity Ventures, and Y Combinator.

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