Product Design Manager, Self Serve

Airtable is the AI-native app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.

Our Self Serve team owns the growth engine of Airtable - how people discover value, adopt AI native workflows, and become long-term customers. We focus on onboarding, activation, conversion, expansion, and monetization across the product experience.

We’re looking for a Product Design Manager to lead design for Funnel & Monetization. We're hiring a product design manager to lead this team while staying close to the craft of design: you'll split your time between people leadership and hands-on design. You’ll partner deeply across Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing to create experiences that are intuitive, cohesive, and measurably effective.

What you'll do

Lead and develop your team

• Manage 1-3 product designers: give them clear ownership, direct feedback, and the support they need to grow and do their best work.


• Own your team's feedback culture. Set a high bar in a way that's constructive - your designers should know what good looks like and feel equipped to get there.


• Know each person's growth edges. Give feedback that's specific, create stretch opportunities, and invest in their development.


• Manage resourcing for your area: scope work to match capacity, flag tradeoffs early, and protect your team from overload.

Shape strategy with your cross-functional partners

• Partner with PM and engineering leads to define roadmaps and success metrics, in addition to executing against them. Design has a voice in what and how something gets built.


• Use design-led exploration - early concepts, AI prototyping, jams - to help your team define the problem and solution space.

Contribute as an individual designer

• Own end-to-end design for significant work in your area, from problem framing through final details, alongside your team's projects.


• Set the quality bar through your own output as much as through feedback.


• Stay close enough to the work that your perspective is sharp and grounded in the nuances of specific business and technical inputs.

• You've managed designers before. 1-2 years of prior experience means that you’ve given feedback that changed someone's work, navigated a hard conversation, and started developing your own management style. 

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