Sr. Manager Product Designer

Manage UX projects and collaborate with various teams to design user-centric features and tools. Develop and maintain design systems to ensure consistency across products and support engineering implementation.

Responsibilities

• Manage UX projects. Collaborate with AI engineers, front-end engineers, designers, product managers, and key stakeholders to design user-centric features and tools for internal teams and external customers.
• Translate complex requirements and AI concepts into intuitive user flows with polished, on-brand interfaces.
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity design specs to support rapid engineering iteration and validation of proof-of-concept demos.
• Develop and maintain the Archer design systems for mobile, desktop and web components, to ensure consistency across products and features, enabling tighter iteration cycles and faster implementation time for Engineering.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to refine PRD’s, shaping product strategy, conduct user research and define usability testing targets to validate designs and incorporate feedback.
• Stay updated on airline industry trends, user needs, and share these learnings with the team to inform and justify design decisions.
• Partner with Front End Developers to communicate design intention, understand technical limitations, and ensure seamless implementation of designs, maintaining quality and functionality.
• Work closely with QA Manager to ensure visual UI quality and UX accuracy is being met across all browsers and devices as necessary.
• Manage UX team, and participate in prospective candidate interview processes, contribute to hiring decisions, and mentor UX designers to collectively up-level the quality and speed of the work output from our team.
• Conduct design crits (scheduled and/or on-demand as-needed) with design leadership, to ensure up-to-date brand direction and explore new opportunities to push feature concepts to the next level – in parallel, conduct weekly design reviews with Eng and Product stakeholders, to present design direction and explain decisions agreed upon with Design Leads.

Requirements

• 15+ years of product design experience, with 7+ years in a senior or staff-level role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Product Design, HCI, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Proven track record designing SaaS products and complex technical interfaces, ideally for enterprise customers.
• Proficiency in design tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe, etc.) and producing high fidelity, on-device prototypes.
• Experience collaborating with engineering teams, particularly in AI or data-driven environments.
• Strong understanding of user research, interaction design, and information architecture.
• Familiarity with AI products and technologies and airline industry or enterprise SaaS is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate design decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Proactive, adaptable, comfortable and cooperative in working in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Passion for mentoring and fostering a collaborative team culture.

Key Skills

• Product design
• Design tools (Figma, Adobe, etc.)
• User research
• Interaction design
• Information architecture
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Problem-solving
• Mentoring
• Adaptability