Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Xplor Technologies powers the experiences at the heart of everyday life. They are seeking a Manager, Product Design to lead a team of product designers and oversee the design output for nextRec, focusing on both hands-on design work and team development.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end UX/UI design for nextRec: discovery, wireframing, prototyping, and delivery-ready specs
- Partner with Product Managers and Engineering leads to translate roadmap priorities into high-quality design output on defined timelines
- Maintain design velocity and quality commitments
- Contribute to design system standards and component libraries in collaboration with the broader Recreation Design Team with a stated goal of moving towards consistency across brands and platforms
- Leverage AI tools as a standard part of your design workflow and help direct reports adopt similar practices
- Formally manage a small team of product designers as direct reports — responsible for day-to-day direction, workload allocation, performance, and professional development
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and development conversations, maintaining schedules and workflow across the team and monitoring progress at frequent intervals
- Conduct design reviews and provide structured, actionable feedback that elevates team output and builds individual capability
- Model and codify AI-augmented design practices, helping direct reports and teammates build fluency and confidence with AI tools in their work
- Participate in cross-functional forums including sprint planning and roadmap reviews — communicating design rationale clearly to Product and Engineering peers
- Lead hiring and onboarding for the Recreation Design Team, contributing to candidate evaluation and team culture
- Celebrate team and individual successes, create time for recognition, and foster an environment where all designers have equal opportunity to contribute and grow
- Establish and evolve design processes for the Recreation Design Team — lightweight where possible, rigorous where it matters
- Own design QA for your team’s output, ensuring that what ships matches what was designed
- Maintain design documentation and handoff standards that reduce back-and-forth with engineering
- Participate in retrospectives and team reviews, contributing feedback on process improvements and team workflows
Skills
- 5+ years of product design experience or equivalent, including experience in a lead, senior, or supervisory design role — formal people management experience is a plus but not required for strong candidates
- Proven ability to maintain high-quality individual design output while providing direction and feedback to others — a genuine player-coach mindset
- Comfortable conducting design reviews, providing actionable feedback, and helping less experienced designers grow their skills
- Strong portfolio showing end-to-end UX/UI design: research, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and shipped product
- Experience working directly with Product Management and Engineering in an Agile or sprint-based environment
- Able to communicate and explain design rationale clearly to Product and Engineering peers in cross-functional settings
- Proficiency in Figma (or equivalent) and comfort with design system methodologies
- SaaS product design experience, particularly with B2B or vertical SaaS products serving SMB or enterprise customers
- Practical, hands-on experience using AI tools in a design workflow — not theoretical familiarity, but actual usage in planning and execution
- Experience contributing to or building a design system from partial foundations
- Exposure to recreation, fitness, education, or similar vertical SaaS markets
- Experience working in a distributed or multi-brand organization
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