Product Design Manager

Role Product Design Manager

Location Hayes Valley, San Francisco, CA

Basic Job Details

Office days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Work from home days: Monday, Friday
Job type: Full time

Job Description

We’re looking for a Product Design Manager to lead and grow a team of talented designers. This role is central to delivering high-quality, user-centered design across complex workflows. You’ll shape the end-to-end product experience, elevate design craft and systems, and play a key role in cross-functional strategy alongside Product and Engineering.

You’ll combine deep UX thinking with an eye for visual detail to deliver elegant solutions that drive measurable impact. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker, a strong design advocate, and an empathetic team leader who thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments. If you’re excited about turning real-world logistics challenges into delightful and intuitive software, we’d love to hear from you. 

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach: Manage and mentor 2-4 designers, run crisp critiques, and build a career ladder that scales
• Set the bar: Own the design system and raise quality through repeatable processes, design reviews, and data-driven decision making
• Ship meaningful work: Partner with PM, Engineering, and ML Data Scientists to deliver end-to-end experiences for our core platform and new AI initiatives
• Be the Voice of the User: Turn complex driver, dispatcher, and analyst workflows into simple, elegant UX that saves hours and gallons at scale
• Measure & Iterate: Define success metrics, synthesize research + usage data, and rapidly prototype to validate ideas before they hit the road

Basic Qualifications

• Design people leader: managed 2-5 ICs and knows how to grow talent while keeping projects on track
• Player-coach mindset: comfortable switching between strategy, pixels, and Figma hotkeys
• Bias for action: you default to “let’s build a v1 today” over “let’s schedule another meeting”
• Depth in product design: 5+ years creating B2B SaaS or complex workflow products with a portfolio that shows both craft and systems thinking

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Product Design
• Exposure to logistics, transportation, or other heavy-ops domains
• Start-up or high-growth experience; you thrive in ambiguity and wear multiple hats
• Familiarity with AI/ML-driven UX patterns

The Perks

• Competitive salary and bonus structure
• Annual bonus and Long Term Incentive Plan participation
• Hybrid work schedule
• 401k with matching
• Medical, Dental, and Vision health coverage
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (15% discount to market value)
• Hyper-stable, publicly traded enterprise
• Collaborative, fun, and tech-forward office in Hayes Valley (San Francisco)

Compensation Range: The annual base salary range for this position is $184,000 - $245,000*. Compensation will vary based on factors including skill level, proficiencies, transferable knowledge, and experience. In addition to base salary, Baton's full-time employees are eligible for an annual performance bonus.