Product Design Manager
At Bitrise, we’ve been expanding our product portfolio and went from a single product company to a full-fledged DevOps Platform in the last few years. As we’re continuing to scale our platform, we’re looking for an experienced Product Design Manager to scale our teams’ design maturity, processes, and structure to the next level, so we can deliver excellent UX and with that frictionless Developer Experience to our customers.
Key Responsibilities
Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Designers at varying levels (team of 5 and growing)
Drive career growth, feedback, and performance management through structured development plans.
Maintain a healthy, inclusive, and collaborative team culture rooted in trust and shared purpose.
Partner with recruitment to hire, onboard, and retain top design talent.
Manage resourcing and prioritization to align design capacity with product goals.
Partner with the Principal Designer to balance people development with design excellence.
Advocate for design within the company and ensure it’s represented in cross-functional decisions.
Core Competencies & Expectations
People Leadership: Provide clarity, direction, and actionable feedback. Invest in individual growth.
Team Collaboration & Culture: Foster collaboration, support inclusion and internal knowledge sharing.
Talent Management: Manage performance and salary reviews and encourage constant feedback flow, actively participate in the recruitment process, drive an effective professional onboarding experience
Resourcing & Planning: Balance workloads, align capacity with business needs, and remove blockers.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with Product, Engineering, and the Principal Designer to align on priorities, resourcing, and outcomes.
Strategic Alignment: Connect design team goals with company strategy and measure team impact.
Experience
4+ years of leadership experience with both managing & scaling design teams.
Solid product design background with credibility to support and evaluate designers’ work.
Proven track record in improving design maturity and processes within an organization.
Experience in defining and implementing design processes that scale to deliver excellent UX and frictionless Developer Experience.
Strong understanding of the full product development lifecycle in a fast-paced environment.
Demonstrated ability to translate complex business problems into user-friendly design solutions.
About Bitrise:
Bitrise is a continuous integration and delivery platform, built by and for mobile app developers. Our mission? To help everyone build and operate better mobile apps. By streamlining, automating and optimizing recurring mobile development processes, we free up time and resources for creative, interesting and impactful development tasks, resulting in better, faster releases.
As a successful graduate of Y Combinator, we are born of the same DNA as Airbnb and Dropbox. Since Bitrise was launched in 2015, we have grown exponentially: Today, tens of thousands of developers release apps via Bitrise that end up on billions of mobile devices around the world.
Some of the teams who already trust us are Tripadvisor, Shopify, Get Your Guide, or GoDaddy. Pick up any mobile device, and chances are you’ll encounter multiple apps that were built on Bitrise. Working at Bitrise means contributing to all of that.
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Product Design Manager
At Bitrise, we’ve been expanding our product portfolio and went from a single product company to a full-fledged DevOps Platform in the last few years. As we’re continuing to scale our platform, we’re looking for an experienced Product Design Manager to scale our teams’ design maturity, processes, and structure to the next level, so we can deliver excellent UX and with that frictionless Developer Experience to our customers.
Key Responsibilities
Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Designers at varying levels (team of 5 and growing)
Drive career growth, feedback, and performance management through structured development plans.
Maintain a healthy, inclusive, and collaborative team culture rooted in trust and shared purpose.
Partner with recruitment to hire, onboard, and retain top design talent.
Manage resourcing and prioritization to align design capacity with product goals.
Partner with the Principal Designer to balance people development with design excellence.
Advocate for design within the company and ensure it’s represented in cross-functional decisions.
Core Competencies & Expectations
People Leadership: Provide clarity, direction, and actionable feedback. Invest in individual growth.
Team Collaboration & Culture: Foster collaboration, support inclusion and internal knowledge sharing.
Talent Management: Manage performance and salary reviews and encourage constant feedback flow, actively participate in the recruitment process, drive an effective professional onboarding experience
Resourcing & Planning: Balance workloads, align capacity with business needs, and remove blockers.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with Product, Engineering, and the Principal Designer to align on priorities, resourcing, and outcomes.
Strategic Alignment: Connect design team goals with company strategy and measure team impact.
Experience
4+ years of leadership experience with both managing & scaling design teams.
Solid product design background with credibility to support and evaluate designers’ work.
Proven track record in improving design maturity and processes within an organization.
Experience in defining and implementing design processes that scale to deliver excellent UX and frictionless Developer Experience.
Strong understanding of the full product development lifecycle in a fast-paced environment.
Demonstrated ability to translate complex business problems into user-friendly design solutions.
About Bitrise:
Bitrise is a continuous integration and delivery platform, built by and for mobile app developers. Our mission? To help everyone build and operate better mobile apps. By streamlining, automating and optimizing recurring mobile development processes, we free up time and resources for creative, interesting and impactful development tasks, resulting in better, faster releases.
As a successful graduate of Y Combinator, we are born of the same DNA as Airbnb and Dropbox. Since Bitrise was launched in 2015, we have grown exponentially: Today, tens of thousands of developers release apps via Bitrise that end up on billions of mobile devices around the world.
Some of the teams who already trust us are Tripadvisor, Shopify, Get Your Guide, or GoDaddy. Pick up any mobile device, and chances are you’ll encounter multiple apps that were built on Bitrise. Working at Bitrise means contributing to all of that.