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Product Design Manager

Intuit Inc., New York, NY, United States


QuickBooks supports millions of small and mid-sized businesses managing real money, real employees, and real risk. Designing in this space requires clarity in complexity, systems thinking at scale, and an uncompromising commitment to craft.

As a Product Design Manager, you will lead a team to shape the experience direction of a complex product domain. You’ll connect initiatives across teams, improve system integrity, and influence roadmap decisions through strong user-centered thinking. This role goes beyond shipping features - you are responsible for how an entire area works, evolves, and maintains clarity at scale.

Responsibilities
People Leadership

Lead a team of 4+ designers

Develop templates, processes, and frameworks for elevating craft

Use judgement to prioritize the most important work and put resources against it

Grow and develop your team of designers

Player/coach who rolls up their sleeves to support the team

Strategic Design Leadership

Shape experience strategy across a complex product domain

Influence roadmap direction and prioritization through user-centered perspective

Connect multiple initiatives to ensure cohesive patterns and workflows

Identify systemic friction within your domain and drive resolution

Define domain-level success metrics aligned to customer and business outcomes

Craft Excellence & Systems Thinking

Distill complex workflows into clear, intuitive experiences

Model high standards of interaction and visual quality

Strengthen shared patterns and evolve design standards within your domain

Balance innovation with long-term system integrity

Drive consistency across multiple teams contributing to your area

Data Fluency & Technical Partnership

Use qualitative and quantitative insights to inform domain-level tradeoffs

Partner deeply with Engineering and Data to ensure scalable solutions

Align instrumentation and metrics with experience intent

Guide the thoughtful integration of AI and automation within your domain

Influence & Organizational Impact

Influence cross-functional stakeholders through structured, strategic thinking

Lead domain-level critiques and alignment sessions

Mentor and develop a team of designers and elevate craft across the team

Advocate for higher quality standards and clearer design principles

Qualifications

8+ years of product design experience

1-3 years of design management experience

Demonstrated ownership of a complex product domain

Strong systems thinking and pattern-level judgment

Experience influencing roadmap and product strategy

A portfolio showing domain-level impact and measurable outcomes

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is:

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