Manager 2, Product Design

**Overview** A Product Design Manager for Protax Group would lead the design team in creating user-friendly, intuitive, and visually appealing tax and accounting software solutions. This role requires a leader who can manage and mentor designers, drive design strategy, and ensure a cohesive user experience across all products. **Responsibilities** + **Design Strategy & Vision:** Define and drive the design vision for all Protax products, ensuring a consistent and high-quality user experience that aligns with business goals. + **Team Leadership:** Lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented product designers. Provide clear direction, constructive feedback, and professional development opportunities. + **User Research:** Partner with the Product Management team to conduct user research, usability testing, and customer interviews to deeply understand user needs and pain points. + **Design Execution:** Oversee the entire design process, from wireframing and prototyping to high-fidelity mockups and interaction design. + **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Work closely with product management, engineering, and marketing teams to ensure designs are feasible, delivered on time, and meet product requirements. + **Design System Management:** Champion and manage our design system, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and scalability across all products. **Qualifications** + **Education:** Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or a related field. + **Experience:** At least **5-7 years of experience** in product design, with a minimum of **2 years in a leadership or management role** . Experience in the fintech, tax, or accounting software industry is a significant plus. + **Skills:** + **Portfolio:** A strong portfolio demonstrating a track record of successful product design and leadership. + **Expertise in UX/UI:** Deep understanding of user-centered design principles, information architecture, and interaction design. + **Leadership:** Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire a design team. + **Tools:** Proficiency with design and prototyping tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD. + **Communication:** Excellent communication and presentation skills to effectively articulate design decisions to stakeholders. Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position will 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 (https://www.intuit.com/careers/benefits/full-time-employees/) ). 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: **What you'll bring** **How you will lead** EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Intuit will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with requirements of local law.