Design is integral to Fleetio’s culture and how we build products together. One of our core beliefs as a company is "Design is an important part of everything we do."
As a Product Design Manager at Fleetio, you’ll shape the essence of our product’s visual and user experience landscape and guide a dynamic team of designers toward realizing this vision. Balancing leadership with hands-on design contributions, you’ll spearhead strategies, establish robust design frameworks, and ensure that every interface we create is innovative, intuitive, and impeccably aligned with our users’ needs. Your role goes beyond individual contributions: you’ll cultivate talent, foster collaboration across departments, and ensure that the Fleetio design language continues to evolve, staying both relevant and revolutionary.
Our ideal candidate is a design visionary with a managerial flair, someone who understands that the success of a product lies in the perfect blend of aesthetics, functionality, and the user’s journey. Your commitment to user-centered design principles will be evident in the high-caliber visuals you produce and the guidance you offer your team. As you collaborate with engineers, product managers, and your design team, your overarching goal will be to refine and expand the Fleetio design ethos.
If you’re an influential design leader and contributor who takes pride in crafting experiences that resonate with users and uplift their interactions, we would love to hear from you!
What’s Fleetio?
Fleetio (pronounced "flee-tee-oh”) is a leading provider of fleet management SaaS that helps organizations of all sizes track, analyze, automate, and manage their vehicles and equipment. With a purpose-built, easy-to-use, and comprehensive suite of tools and features, Fleetio makes it easy for fleet managers to optimize their operations, reduce costs, and improve safety and compliance.
We’ve become a trusted partner for thousands of businesses across the globe, from small startups to large enterprises. With a focus on innovation, customer success, and sustainable growth, Fleetio is on a mission to transform fleet management.
What makes us special, you might ask? We’ve been remote-friendly since 2012 and have been recognized as Birmingham Alabama’s Best Places to Work five years in a row. We have over 200 employees all over the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and have over 5000 paying customers in 70+ countries. It’s an exciting time at Fleetio as we’re growing 50+% year on year and have just closed our Series C round led by our incredible investment partner, Elephant. We’re building the fleet management platform of the future – the single screen for fleet managers to drive their businesses forward.
More about our product and company:
What you’ll be doing
- Lead and guide the Product Design strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives while personally contributing to pivotal design projects.
- Supervise the design process from ideation to final execution, guaranteeing that features are launched efficiently and at the highest quality.
- Lead and directly contribute to analytics design initiatives by spearheading the creation and refinement of intuitive analytics and reporting tools. Utilize your experience with designing products from the ground up (zero to one) to deliver innovative data visualization and user experiences that transform raw data into actionable insights.
- Champion data-driven design principles by leveraging your data and insights expertise to inform and inspire your design decisions. Collaborate closely with data scientists and analysts to ensure that the analytics interfaces are visually compelling and rooted in accuracy and relevance.
- Establish and maintain robust design frameworks and guidelines, building upon and expanding the current style guide.
- Drive user-centered design culture by setting the bar for product quality, promoting rigorous user research, feedback integration, and iterative design refinement.
- Foster a team environment of understanding and empathy for our users, ensuring this understanding is central to all design decisions.
- Manage stakeholder communications, presenting design strategies and decisions with clarity and conviction while fostering a two-way feedback loop.
- Orchestrate collaborations across Product, Design, Engineering, and Marketing teams, ensuring smooth and efficient communication and problem-solving.
- Work hands-on with engineers, merging the manager and IC roles to oversee and sometimes contribute to the design-implementation phase. This role is a hybrid player-leader-coach where you will spend 70% of your time in IC contributing directly to a team and 30% of your time managing a team of product designers.
- Develop the talent within the design team, mentoring junior to mid-level designers, establishing growth paths, and ensuring continuous skill enhancement.
- Manage team dynamics, ensuring effective communication, conflict resolution and fostering a positive environment.
This is a position we consider essential to the company’s success. Be sure to mention coffee in your cover letter so we know you actually read this.
What’s in it for you
- Design digital products used by thousands of users around the world. So many different types of companies and organizations operate a fleet each day, and Fleetio is a good fit for most of them (it’s a huge market).
- Be a part of an incredible team of “A” players who go above and beyond to make Fleetio a successful company. We’re a customer-centric team with a great product, excellent support, and countless happy customers.
- Work remotely (within the United States), or at our Birmingham, AL HQ. We strive to promote a strong remote working culture and have done so since the beginning.
- A proven track record of 5+ years in a SaaS environment, with evident experience in both hands-on design and team leadership.
- A degree in Design or a related field is preferred.
- Expertise in translating customer insights into actionable design strategies and initiatives.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating leadership in visual design, UI patterns, typography, color, and detail orientation.
- Ability to lead and execute user-centered design thinking across large product ecosystems.
- Articulate communication skills, adept in conveying design rationales and managing stakeholder expectations.
- Demonstrated experience in bringing cross-functional teams together, from research to engineering, ensuring harmonized product development.
- Mastery of contemporary design tools and techniques, with the ability to guide teams in best practices.
- A solid history of nurturing and elevating design talent, with evidence of team growth and individual success stories.
- 100% health/dental coverage (50% coverage for family)
- Vision insurance
- Incentive stock options
- 401(k) match of 4%
- PTO - 4 weeks
- 10 company holidays + 2 floating holidays
- Parental and bonding leave
- Dependent care and medical FSA
- Short and long-term disability
- Community service funds
- Professional development funds
- Health and wellness initiatives
- Mac laptop + new hire equipment stipend
- Monthly catered lunches
- Fully stocked kitchen with tons of drinks & snacks
- Remote working friendly since 2012 #LI-REMOTE
Fleetio provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
This application is not intended to and does not create a contract or offer of employment. Employment with Fleetio is at will.
If you have a disability or a special need that requires an accommodation to fill out the online application, please let us know by calling (205) 718-7500 or emailing [email protected].
