Senior Product Manager - Design System
Join us on our mission to make a better world of work.
Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.
Culture Amp is backed by leading capital venture funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.
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How you can help make a better world of work
The Design System Team is critical in unifying the experience and user interface across our products into a single cohesive platform. Our Design System, Kaizen, is well-established and adopted across all our product teams. However, as our platform and organisation have grown, so has our need to evolve our Design System and approach.
As the Senior Product Manager on the Design System Team, you will be responsible for driving our Design System transformation. This includes building out the strategic direction and turning it into an actionable roadmap of components, tooling, principles, enablement and support to ensure our product teams feel set up to efficiently deliver quality user interfaces for our wide range of customers and users.
To be successful in transforming the Design System you will need to possess an open and collaborative mindset.
You’ll need to be comfortable working out loud to build connections across the Product Group, leveraging relationships and processes to understand the needs of our cross-functional product teams. This will inform your priorities for building an impactful roadmap.
Within the Design System Team, you will be responsible for cultivating a sense of purpose and vision whilst focusing on delivering value to our internal product teams. To close the loop on execution you will need to bring visibility to our plans and celebrate the work as it is delivered.
As part of this cross-functional team of amazing humans, you will…
- Guide the strategic direction and execution roadmap that enable all of our product teams to efficiently deliver high-quality and cohesive user interfaces
- Build momentum within the team by breaking big goals down into small, solvable pieces, of disproportionately high-value work
- Set and achieve clear success metrics that define a successful Design System, keeping the team focused and on track
- Drive systems of feedback from Design System users and share with the team and beyond to build empathy and insight on key challenges to overcome
- Advocate for the Design System by facilitating collaboration with key stakeholders across Product, Design & Engineering to enable a highly adopted system
- Craft clear communications that generate broad awareness plans, progress and wins related to the Design System and the team
- Stay informed of the latest design systems thinking
You have…
- 5+ years of product management experience
- A track record for defining and executing Platform and enablement strategies that create business and customer value
- Passion for raising the product craft bar and driving best practices throughout the company
- Experience working with Design Systems is advantageous
We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are:
- Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
- Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
- Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
- Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
- Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
- Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
- Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
- Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
- 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
- MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
- Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)
Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place.
We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.
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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.
We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!
Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it.
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