# Product Design Manager

Occupation

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/product-design-manager

A Product Design Manager leads a team responsible for product design strategy, ensuring designers' work aligns with business goals and user needs uncovered through research. They maintain and evolve design systems in Figma while providing cross-functional leadership across product management and engineering to ship features. This role blends people management with hands-on design oversight, often reporting to a director or VP of design or product.

Top skills: [Design Systems](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/design-systems), [Figma](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/figma), [User Research](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/user-research)

## Career ladder

- Often comes from: [Senior Product Designer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/senior-product-designer)
- Often leads to: [Director of User Experience](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/director-of-user-experience)

## Similar roles

[Art Director](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/art-director), [Creative Director](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/creative-director), [Design Manager](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/design-manager), [Director of Product Development](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/director-of-product-development), [Director of User Experience](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/director-of-user-experience), [Senior Product Designer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/senior-product-designer), [UI/UX Manager](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/ui-ux-manager), [UX Design Manager](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/ux-design-manager), [UX Research Manager](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/ux-research-manager)

## Open Product Design Manager roles (2)

- [Product Design Manager](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/patreon/27c0dac8-8f97-4090-b2e5-9ad6219621d8/application) at [Patreon](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/patreon) — New York, NY · Remote, $266,000 – $398,500 (listed on Patreon's own careers site)
- [Manager, Product Design](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/565bd5b2-57d0-4c96-ac77-96858582e922/manager-product-design-at-warner-bros-discovery) at [Warner Bros. Discovery](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/warner-bros-discovery) — Atlanta, GA

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