Group Design Manager, QuickBooks International
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA, United States
At Intuit, our mission is to power prosperity for small businesses around the world. QuickBooks supports millions of businesses managing real money, real employees, and real risk - and that responsibility only grows as we expand globally.
We’re looking for a Group Design Manager to lead Product Design for QuickBooks International. This role is the design counterpart to Product and Engineering leadership, responsible for shaping experience direction across markets including EMEA, APAC, Canada, and Latin America.
You’ll lead a cross-disciplinary team of designers working across international products, helping evolve QuickBooks into a platform that feels cohesive at a global level while remaining deeply relevant at a local level. This role sits at the intersection of product strategy, systems thinking, and craft - ensuring that what we build is not only functional, but clear, consistent, and trustworthy for customers everywhere.
Responsibilities
Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define experience direction across international markets
Translate global platform strategy into locally relevant, high-quality product experiences
Drive alignment across teams to ensure consistency, clarity, and scalability
Elevate Craft and Experience Quality
Set and uphold a high bar for interaction, visual, and motion design across your team
Ensure experiences feel intuitive, cohesive, and polished across surfaces
Foster a strong culture of critique, feedback, and continuous improvement
Stay close to the work - providing clear creative direction and hands‑on guidance
Shape Platform and System Coherence
Strengthen shared patterns, frameworks, and design systems that scale across markets
Balance global consistency with local needs, ensuring experiences feel both unified and relevant
Reduce fragmentation and improve end-to-end workflow clarity across the platform
Integrate AI Thoughtfully into the Experience
Help define how AI shows up across international product experiences
Ensure AI-powered interactions feel natural, trustworthy, and useful
Partner with Product and Engineering to design experiences that combine automation with human control
Build and Develop a High-Performing Team
Lead, coach, and grow a team of designers across regions
Create an environment where craft, accountability, and learning are shared priorities
Support career development and help designers expand their impact and influence
Qualifications
An experienced design leader with a strong background in product design
Comfortable operating at both strategic and execution levels - setting direction while staying close to the work
Deeply committed to craft, with a strong point of view on quality, usability, and interaction design
Experience designing for international or multi-market products, with an understanding of how to balance global consistency with local needs
Skilled at navigating ambiguity and aligning cross-functional partners
Thoughtful about how emerging technologies, including AI, shape product experiences
A strong coach who develops teams through clear feedback, support, and high expectations
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: Bay Area California $226,000- 305,500 References Visible links 1. https://www.intuit.com/careers/benefits/full-time-employees/
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We’re looking for a Group Design Manager to lead Product Design for QuickBooks International. This role is the design counterpart to Product and Engineering leadership, responsible for shaping experience direction across markets including EMEA, APAC, Canada, and Latin America.
You’ll lead a cross-disciplinary team of designers working across international products, helping evolve QuickBooks into a platform that feels cohesive at a global level while remaining deeply relevant at a local level. This role sits at the intersection of product strategy, systems thinking, and craft - ensuring that what we build is not only functional, but clear, consistent, and trustworthy for customers everywhere.
Responsibilities
Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define experience direction across international markets
Translate global platform strategy into locally relevant, high-quality product experiences
Drive alignment across teams to ensure consistency, clarity, and scalability
Elevate Craft and Experience Quality
Set and uphold a high bar for interaction, visual, and motion design across your team
Ensure experiences feel intuitive, cohesive, and polished across surfaces
Foster a strong culture of critique, feedback, and continuous improvement
Stay close to the work - providing clear creative direction and hands‑on guidance
Shape Platform and System Coherence
Strengthen shared patterns, frameworks, and design systems that scale across markets
Balance global consistency with local needs, ensuring experiences feel both unified and relevant
Reduce fragmentation and improve end-to-end workflow clarity across the platform
Integrate AI Thoughtfully into the Experience
Help define how AI shows up across international product experiences
Ensure AI-powered interactions feel natural, trustworthy, and useful
Partner with Product and Engineering to design experiences that combine automation with human control
Build and Develop a High-Performing Team
Lead, coach, and grow a team of designers across regions
Create an environment where craft, accountability, and learning are shared priorities
Support career development and help designers expand their impact and influence
Qualifications
An experienced design leader with a strong background in product design
Comfortable operating at both strategic and execution levels - setting direction while staying close to the work
Deeply committed to craft, with a strong point of view on quality, usability, and interaction design
Experience designing for international or multi-market products, with an understanding of how to balance global consistency with local needs
Skilled at navigating ambiguity and aligning cross-functional partners
Thoughtful about how emerging technologies, including AI, shape product experiences
A strong coach who develops teams through clear feedback, support, and high expectations
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: Bay Area California $226,000- 305,500 References Visible links 1. https://www.intuit.com/careers/benefits/full-time-employees/
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