From our employee experience to our products, design matters at Sprout Social. We're looking for a Product Design Manager specializing in Design Systems to join our team as we advance our design system, . Seeds facilitates the development of beautiful, helpful, and easy-to-use software that powers human connection. It is home to all of the tools and resources needed to understand the Sprout brand, express it creatively, and inspire meaningful customer experiences. In this role, you'll lead the team responsible for the creation and stewarding of platform-agnostic products and programs that our internal teams at Sprout can leverage to embody the Sprout brand and build effective experiences more efficiently.
Collaboration and partnership is key for everyone working at Sprout Social. On our Design Systems team, you'll partner with other designers, engineers, product managers, marketers, and senior executives to constantly evolve and improve the integrity of Seeds. You'll apply past experience advocating for close partnerships across disciplines, leveraging your ability to speak and move fluidly between the languages of these business functions. You'll bring a much-needed engineering perspective to the design process to voice issues with feasibility and call out missed edge-cases. And, you'll be a constant user advocate in every conversation you're a part of, championing the needs of those who engage with your system and demonstrating your keen user-centered problem solving abilities.
As a Product Design Manager, you'll have the opportunity to play the role of 'player-coach.' You'll tackle cultivating the people growth of a small team of direct reports. We are looking for someone who welcomes the opportunity to nurture quality craft in their people, as well as to demonstrate quality craft through design and front-end development.
Our people leaders strengthen our team, processes, culture and work. In concert with your peer Design Managers and Design Leadership, you'll help Sprout continue to be a great place to practice your craft as a creative technologist. You'll sharpen the skills of your direct reports, plan org-wide design systems education, improve rituals, bolster critiques, and influence systems strategy at scale.
We care deeply about our people and strive to be great bosses. We're eager to hear your favorite 1:1 questions you ask direct reports. We're excited to trade tips on leading effective meetings. We're looking forward to exchanging management articles and advice. Hopefully, we'll learn new leadership practices from you, too! We've built a thoughtful and strong design culture, and we're looking forward to you adding your own influence to all that we do.
Qualifications
These are the minimum qualifications that our hiring team is looking for in this role:
Additionally, these are the preferred qualifications that would indicate a particularly strong candidate:
Note: When applying, please share a link to a portfolio that showcases your recent work.
Within 1 month, you will...Of course what is outlined above is the ideal timeline, but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager.
About Sprout Social
Sprout Social powers open communication between individuals, brands and communities through elegant, sophisticated software. We are relentless about solving hard problems for our customers and committed to both customer and team success. Our team's shared belief in Sprout's mission promotes a culture of openness, empowerment and fun.
We're proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes:
Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. For those that prefer an office setting, this role may be based in our Chicago or Seattle locations. If you prefer to work from your home, we can accommodate that for many locations across the United States. We are not set up in all states, however, so please take a look at the drop down box in our application to see whether your state is listed.
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