Sr. Manager, Product Design

About Us
HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies, entrepreneurs and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. Today, HighLevel supports SMBs across 150+ countries, fueling community-driven growth rooted in real customer outcomes.
To date, businesses operating on HighLevel have generated over $7 billion in ecosystem value, demonstrating the impact of shared infrastructure at scale. By centralizing conversations, automation and intelligence into system, we help businesses move faster, reduce complexity and execute efficiently.
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With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries, HighLevel operates as a global, remote-first organization built for speed and ownership. We value initiative, clarity and execution, creating space for ambitious people to build systems that support millions of businesses worldwide. Here, innovation thrives, ideas are celebrated and people come first, no matter where they call home.

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Role overview
We are seeking a Senior Manager, Product Design to lead design for HighLevel's core platform experiences, mobile experiences for native platforms and design system team. This role will report to the Senior Director, Product Design and manage approximately 8 product designers across the United States and India.
This is a craft-driven senior design manager role for someone who can help create a step change in HighLevel's design practice. The ideal candidate brings exceptional aesthetic judgment, visual craft and interaction-design taste, plus the leadership ability to turn those standards into better work from the team.
A major part of this role will be line managing the design system team and helping level up design system strategy and execution, in partnership with the Senior Director, Product Design, who owns the design system as part of their broader portfolio. The goal is not better internal tooling, but major improvements to the UX/UI our customers experience every day.
HighLevel values velocity, ownership and practical innovation. We are actively adopting AI-assisted production workflows, including tools such as Cursor and Claude Code, and we are looking for design leaders who are curious about new ways of working and eager to help teams get to better results more quickly.
Product and design scope
You will lead design execution and quality across three connected areas:
Core platform experiences that help agencies and SMBs manage customers, work across accounts, navigate the product, configure settings and complete essential business workflows
Mobile experiences for native platforms that make HighLevel's most important workflows accessible, focused and effective for customers on the go
Design system strategy, execution and team practices, including AI-assisted production workflows, that help designers and engineers deliver a vastly better, more consistent customer experience
What you will lead
A team of approximately 8 product designers across US and India teams, including coaching, career development, performance management, prioritization and staffing
Design quality and execution across core platform experiences, native mobile surfaces and design system work
Line management for the design system team, in partnership with the Senior Director on design system strategy, priorities and adoption
A high-velocity operating rhythm for critiques, reviews, planning, feedback loops and cross-functional alignment
A meaningfully higher bar for aesthetic quality, visual design, interaction design, information architecture, product thinking and end-to-end usability
Talent development, including elevating strong performers and supporting designers who need clearer expectations or additional coaching
Key responsibilities

1. Team leadership and management
   Manage, coach and develop approximately 8 product designers across US and India teams
   Set clear expectations for quality, ownership, collaboration and delivery
   Hire excellent talent, new designers and help the team grow with intention
   Elevate designers through coaching, stretch opportunities and clear development plans
   Performance manage thoughtfully and directly when designers need additional support, sharper expectations or role calibration
   Build a team culture that values speed, ownership, craft and customer impact
2. Craft, aesthetic quality and product excellence
   Raise the bar for design output across aesthetic quality, visual craft, interaction quality, product design thinking and customer-centered execution
   Help create a step change in HighLevel's design practice by making quality standards sharper, more visible and more consistently applied
   Lead critiques and quality reviews that improve the work before it reaches customers
   Ensure major releases are grounded in clear user needs, thoughtful flows, durable interaction patterns and refined visual execution
   Encourage responsible use of AI-assisted tools and workflows to accelerate exploration, prototyping, documentation and production collaboration
3. Core platform and mobile design leadership
   Lead design execution across core platform experiences that support navigation, account management, configuration, workflow execution and customer operations
   Guide mobile design for native platforms, ensuring the experience is focused, useful and appropriately adapted to mobile customer needs
   Partner with Product and Engineering to clarify priorities, shape roadmaps, identify tradeoffs and maintain a high-quality customer experience
   Connect work across desktop, mobile and shared platform surfaces so customers experience HighLevel as coherent product
4. Design system leadership
   Line manage the design system team and help evolve HighLevel's bespoke design system into a strategic accelerator for product quality, execution speed and customer experience
   Partner with the Senior Director on design system strategy, priorities, governance and adoption across the broader product portfolio
   Work horizontally across product, design and engineering teams to drive adoption of shared components, patterns and interaction standards
   Reduce pattern drift across core platform and mobile experiences through clear guidance, reusable patterns and strong examples of the desired UX/UI quality
5. Cross-functional collaboration and business impact
   Build strong operating partnerships with Product, Engineering, Data, Support and Customer Success
   Represent design in planning, roadmap and delivery conversations with clarity and sound product judgment
   Work effectively across time zones and cultures, especially between US and India teams
   Model the pace, ownership and adaptability expected in a high-velocity product environment
   Qualifications
   9+ years of experience in product design, UX or related product experience disciplines, including 3+ years managing product designers
   Proven experience managing designers across complex B2B SaaS, platform, mobile or multi-product environments
   Exceptional aesthetic judgment, visual craft and interaction-design taste, with the ability to raise the quality of work across a team
   Experience leading critique, coaching designers and helping teams make strong design decisions
   Experience leading or line managing design system work, including component libraries, shared patterns, contribution models, documentation, governance or adoption across product teams
   Experience managing distributed teams and working across time zones; experience working closely with India-based teams is a strong plus
   Demonstrated ability to hire strong designers, develop existing talent and performance manage team members who need additional support
   Strong product judgment and comfort balancing customer needs, business outcomes, technical constraints and speed of execution
   Familiarity with AI-assisted production tools such as Cursor, Claude Code or exploratory "vibe coding" workflows, and enthusiasm for using them thoughtfully to improve design velocity and collaboration
   Comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with high ownership expectations
   What success looks like
   Core platform and mobile experiences become more cohesive, intuitive and polished across the customer journey
   HighLevel's bespoke design system becomes a major force for better UX/UI, with clearer strategy, stronger execution, broader adoption and visible improvements to customer-facing quality
   The team's design output shows a step change in aesthetic quality, visual craft, interaction models, information architecture and end-to-end product thinking
   Designers receive clearer feedback, stronger coaching and better development support across both US and India teams
   The team embraces AI-assisted workflows to explore faster, communicate ideas more clearly and deliver better outcomes without compromising quality
   Product, Engineering and other partners experience Design as a clear, reliable and high-quality partner in shaping and shipping product work
   Why HighLevel
   Lead design for foundational product experiences used by millions of businesses
   Manage and grow a talented team across US and India
   Help level up design system strategy and execution across a broad product platform
   Raise the bar for aesthetic quality, craft, interaction quality and product design excellence
   Work with modern AI-assisted production tools and workflows in a culture that values velocity, ownership and practical experimentation
   Competitive compensation, benefits and flexibility

1. Team leadership and management
   Manage, coach and develop approximately 8 product designers across US and India teams
   Set clear expectations for quality, ownership, collaboration and delivery
   Hire excellent talent, new designers and help the team grow with intention
   Elevate designers through coaching, stretch opportunities and clear development plans
   Performance manage thoughtfully and directly when designers need additional support, sharper expectations or role calibration
   Build a team culture that values speed, ownership, craft and customer impact
2. Craft, aesthetic quality and product excellence
   Raise the bar for design output across aesthetic quality, visual craft, interaction quality, product design thinking and customer-centered execution
   Help create a step change in HighLevel's design practice by making quality standards sharper, more visible and more consistently applied
   Lead critiques and quality reviews that improve the work before it reaches customers
   Ensure major releases are grounded in clear user needs, thoughtful flows, durable interaction patterns and refined visual execution
   Encourage responsible use of AI-assisted tools and workflows to accelerate exploration, prototyping, documentation and production collaboration
3. Core platform and mobile design leadership
   Lead design execution across core platform experiences that support navigation, account management, configuration, workflow execution and customer operations
   Guide mobile design for native platforms, ensuring the experience is focused, useful and appropriately adapted to mobile customer needs
   Partner with Product and Engineering to clarify priorities, shape roadmaps, identify tradeoffs and maintain a high-quality customer experience
   Connect work across desktop, mobile and shared platform surfaces so customers experience HighLevel as coherent product
4. Design system leadership
   Line manage the design system team and help evolve HighLevel's bespoke design system into a strategic accelerator for product quality, execution speed and customer experience
   Partner with the Senior Director on design system strategy, priorities, governance and adoption across the broader product portfolio
   Work horizontally across product, design and engineering teams to drive adoption of shared components, patterns and interaction standards
   Reduce pattern drift across core platform and mobile experiences through clear guidance, reusable patterns and strong examples of the desired UX/UI quality
5. Cross-functional collaboration and business impact
   Build strong operating partnerships with Product, Engineering, Data, Support and Customer Success
   Represent design in planning, roadmap and delivery conversations with clarity and sound product judgment
   Work effectively across time zones and cultures, especially between US and India teams
   Model the pace, ownership and adaptability expected in a high-velocity product environment
   9+ years of experience in product design, UX or related product experience disciplines, including 3+ years managing product designers
   Proven experience managing designers across complex B2B SaaS, platform, mobile or multi-product environments
   Exceptional aesthetic judgment, visual craft and interaction-design taste, with the ability to raise the quality of work across a team
   Experience leading critique, coaching designers and helping teams make strong design decisions
   Experience leading or line managing design system work, including component libraries, shared patterns, contribution models, documentation, governance or adoption across product teams
   Experience managing distributed teams and working across time zones; experience working closely with India-based teams is a strong plus
   Demonstrated ability to hire strong designers, develop existing talent and performance manage team members who need additional support
   Strong product judgment and comfort balancing customer needs, business outcomes, technical constraints and speed of execution
   Familiarity with AI-assisted production tools such as Cursor, Claude Code or exploratory "vibe coding" workflows, and enthusiasm for using them thoughtfully to improve design velocity and collaboration
   Comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with high ownership expectations
   What success looks like
   Core platform and mobile experiences become more cohesive, intuitive and polished across the customer journey
   HighLevel's bespoke design system becomes a major force for better UX/UI, with clearer strategy, stronger execution, broader adoption and visible improvements to customer-facing quality
   The team's design output shows a step change in aesthetic quality, visual craft, interaction models, information architecture and end-to-end product thinking
   Designers receive clearer feedback, stronger coaching and better development support across both US and India teams
   The team embraces AI-assisted workflows to explore faster, communicate ideas more clearly and deliver better outcomes without compromising quality
   Product, Engineering and other partners experience Design as a clear, reliable and high-quality partner in shaping and shipping product work
   Why HighLevel
   Lead design for foundational product experiences used by millions of businesses
   Manage and grow a talented team across US and India
   Help level up design system strategy and execution across a broad product platform
   Raise the bar for aesthetic quality, craft, interaction quality and product design excellence
   Work with modern AI-assisted production tools and workflows in a culture that values velocity, ownership and practical experimentation
   Competitive compensation, benefits and flexibility