Manager Product Design

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, inspire, and mentor designers to ensure growth and success while delivering compelling, mobile-first and on-brand design solutions.
• Review and elevate the quality of design output, focusing on native mobile app experiences (iOS and Android), as well as web and emerging screen formats.
• Ensure design consistency and alignment across the app by working with internal and external teams to maintain a cohesive experience.
• Partner with app product managers, product owners, mobile engineers, and digital channel leads to define goals, shape app roadmap priorities, and influence design direction.
• Stay current on mobile UX/UI trends, platform guidelines, and technological advancements to enhance our app experience.
• Provide creative design direction and storytelling across typography, motion, photography, and interaction design, especially tailored for app formats.
• Participate in hiring and onboarding of new team members.
• Bring structure and rigor to the app design workflow, anticipate resourcing needs and timing conflicts.
• Collaborate across teams to shape app-centric funnels, interactive content modules, and personalized experiences.
• Leverage mobile-specific data and performance insights to inform design iterations and user experience improvements.
• Contribute to the evolution of the Design System with a mobile-first mindset.
• Ensure high quality through QA/UAT across new and existing app features.
• Explore and integrate app-forward technologies including AR and AI.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience managing or leading design teams.
• 8-10+ years of experience in product and UI design, with a strong portfolio showcasing mobile app design (iOS/Android) as a core strength.
• BS/BA degree in design, technology, psychology, human factors or HCI is preferred.
• Expert-level proficiency with Figma and other collaboration tools.
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks and coding languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, Bootstrap, PHP) is a plus.
• Hands-on experience working in agile environments.
• Previous experience in e-commerce or mobile-first tech environments is preferred.
• Portfolio required showing app design.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with front-end frameworks and coding languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, Bootstrap, PHP).
• Previous experience in e-commerce or mobile-first tech environments.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in design, technology, psychology, human factors or HCI (preferred).
• 8-10+ years of experience in product and UI design.
• Portfolio demonstrating mobile app design (iOS/Android).

Benefits & Perks

• Full-time positions are eligible for paid time off, health, dental, vision, life and disability benefits.
• Part-time positions are eligible for dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
• The pay range for this position is $102,900.00 - $155,000.00 per year with potential for additional bonus compensation.
• Additional information about benefits can be found at https://learn.bswift.com/ulta.