Senior Design Manager
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Job Description
We’re looking for a seasoned Design Manager to help lead and scale the Product Design function at GLG. This is a player-coach role, guiding a team of Senior UX Designers working across complex, business-critical platforms, while contributing directly to high-impact design work.
You’ll be a core operational partner to the Head of Design, ensuring delivery excellence, team health, and executional clarity across the organization. This role is ideal for a design leader who can flex between critique and craft, unblock teams, and support great designers in doing the best work of their careers.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the day-to-day operations of the design team, ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery across multiple workstreams.
- Coach and mentor a team of senior UX designers, providing feedback, growth support, and performance guidance.
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering to drive execution at the squad level, ensuring alignment, feasibility, and quality.
- Be hands-on when needed, contributing to critical design efforts, facilitating working sessions, and helping solve high-stakes UX challenges (30–40% IC time expected).
- Facilitate design rituals, critiques, standups, async reviews that raise team quality, velocity, and cohesion.
- Collaborate on design system adoption and governance, ensuring consistency and scale across experiences.
- Act as the first line point of escalation for delivery blockers, triad alignment issues, or UX quality risks.
- Partner with the Head of Design on team structure, hiring signals, and design maturity growth.
What We’re Looking For
- 10+ years of UX/Product Design experience, including 2+ years leading designers (officially or unofficially)
- Experience operating in multi-stream product environments or B2B/enterprise UX teams
- Strong command of Figma, design systems, interaction design, and design for web and mobile platforms
- Excellent communicator with the ability to guide teams through ambiguity and connect design to product outcomes
- Deep understanding of user-centered design, UX principles, and accessibility best practices
- Track record of unblocking teams, improving design output, and fostering growth in others
- Thrives in fast-moving, cross-functional environments and knows how to balance vision with iteration
- Experience with Agile, Lean UX, or continuous discovery is a plus
- A portfolio and team leadership story that reflects your impact on design quality, clarity, and team health
What We Offer:
Benefits: All U.S. GLGers also have access to benefits such as:
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your first day of employment
- Flexible paid time off. No pre-determined limits on vacation time, plus 10 company holidays
- 401(k) and Roth 401(k) plans with an employer match (subject to annual limits & vesting)
- Tuition reimbursement program for eligible courses including language skills courses
- Paid parental leave, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
- Free wellbeing support with the Calm app, Maven and EAP, and free long-term therapy & counselling assistance through Pathways
- Other work perks and benefits available based on final job location
Compensation: GLG is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation is based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. Certain roles may also be eligible for incentive compensation.
About GLG / Gerson Lehrman Group
GLG is the world’s insight network. Our clients rely on GLG’s global team to connect with powerful insight across fields from our network of approximately 1 million experts (and the hundreds of new experts we recruit every day).
We serve thousands of the world’s best businesses, from Fortune 500 corporations to leading technology companies to professional services firms and financial institutions. We connect our clients to the world’s largest and most varied source of first-hand expertise, including executives, scientists, academics, former public-sector leaders, and the foremost subject matter specialists.
GLG’s industry-leading compliance framework allows clients to learn in a structured, auditable, and transparent way, consistent with their own internal compliance obligations and the highest professional ethical standards. Our compliance standards are a major competitive differentiator and key component of the company’s culture.
To learn more, visit www.GLGinsights.com.
Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. (“GLG”) is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, religion, color, marital status, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.
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