Product Design Manager

MaintainX is a mobile-first work execution platform for industrial and frontline teams. The company is seeking a Product Design Manager to lead and develop a team of product designers, set creative direction across web and mobile product areas, and partner with Product and Engineering to deliver intuitive, high-quality, increasingly AI-powered experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Own design quality across your team's product areas for web and mobile. Guide designers through ambiguity, review work with a sharp eye, and ensure what ships is grounded in real user needs and built to a high standard
• Lead and grow a team of 4-6 product designers. Run 1:1s, drive career growth, deliver clear feedback, and build a team culture where people do their best work. You'll be responsible for hiring, performance, and developing the next generation of design talent at MaintainX
• Translate product strategy into focused design execution. Help your team understand not just what they're building, but why it matters. Set a clear, directional vision for your team's focus, rooted in customer understanding and business context
• Partner closely with Product Managers and Engineering leads. Align on priorities, unblock delivery, and advocate for design quality and user needs in every conversation
• Raise the craft bar. Contribute to design critiques, invest in our design system, and ensure consistency and coherence across the experiences your team touches
• Lead your team in adopting AI tools and practices to accelerate design work and push the quality and speed of your team's output

Requirements:

• 6+ years of product design experience in B2B SaaS or enterprise platforms
• 1–3 years of experience managing product designers
• Strong product thinking and craft judgment
• You understand customer problems, business tradeoffs, and how to connect design work to strategy
• You build trust through how you show up. Consistent, direct, and accountable. You create clarity for your team, resolve friction with partners early, and lead with enough confidence to make decisions and enough humility to change your mind
• You care about AI-powered product experiences, both in how your team designs for AI-first workflows and in how they use AI tools to push the quality and speed of their own work
• An expert level of English, both spoken and written, is required, as the individual will need to lead platform engineering managers across multiple teams, present technical priorities to executive stakeholders, and align with engineering leaders outside Québec on a daily basis
• Experience with frontline, mobile-first, or offline-capable product design
• Background in industrial, operations, or maintenance-adjacent domains
• Experience contributing to or scaling a design system
• Familiarity with designing for AI-powered workflows and data-rich interfaces