Product Design Manager, Notion

$230-290k

Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

2+ days a week in office

Notion

Online workspace for notes, projects, and collaboration

Open for applications

Notion

Online workspace for notes, projects, and collaboration

1001+ employees

B2BInternal toolsProductivitySaaSProduct Management

Open for applications

$230-290k

Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

2+ days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2BInternal toolsProductivitySaaSProduct Management

Company mission

To shape both the future of work, and the future of productivity tools.

Role

Who you are

  • You have a strong track record of shipping products that customers love
  • You have 2+ years of design leadership experience, with direct reports and accountability for delivering progress towards company goals
  • You have 5+ years of design experience, building and shipping high quality products
  • You collaborate well cross-functionally—especially with research, product management, engineering and data—and pride yourself on being able to get teams of smart people working together towards strategic objectives
  • You have experience sharing and representing work, tailoring your communication to the needs of your audience
  • You have built, or are committed to building, diverse and inclusive product teams
  • Bonus Points:

Desirable

  • You have experience working with marketing and sales teams
  • You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understand why we're big fans of their work

What the job involves

  • In this role, you’ll be our second design manager at Notion — and lead a group of designers who work across Notion’s core product, platform and administrative tools
  • You’ll be responsible for supporting designers and content strategists as they build, evolve and maintain Notion’s product, solving everyday problems our customers have with intuitive and approachable interfaces
  • You’ll help build a collaborative environment that invites input from research, engineering, product management, partnerships, marketing and more
  • You’ll help us define, grow, and foster a differentiated design culture that meets the very highest standards: investing in our people, processes and physical space alike
  • You'll help build and manage a team of product designers that help define and inspire long-term direction, while delivering high quality products on a regular cadence
  • You’ll ensure Notion remains simple, intuitive and approachable, by enabling designers to work across projects, products and teams
  • You’ll help define and evolve our processes and tools across offices, building constructive and healthy systems for sharing work and feedback between people, functions and teams
  • You'll help build the design function at Notion— setting what it's responsible for, how it interfaces with other teams, and how it'll grow and develop over time
  • You’ll set an extremely high bar for our craft and quality across visual design, interaction, UX and content; while staying focused on our customers’ needs and our company’s goals. You'll help guide designers to meet and raise that bar

Our take

Managing busy workflows using fragmented systems can be a headache for both individuals and businesses. Notion aims to combat this problem by enabling users to work from one central hub, customizing their workflows to suit their exact needs. This includes managing files, scheduling tasks, saving documents, writing to-do-lists, and setting reminders.

The company counts enterprise companies such as McDonald’s, The Wall Street Journal, Verizon, Samsung, and IBM as its customers. In spite of economic uncertainty, Notion reached a $2 billion valuation in 2020, helped by record signups as more people were forced to work from home. Its value has since risen to over 5 times this value, an impressive reflection of its success.

The company has made a number of strategic acquisitions that, coupled with its enormous market value and enviable customer list, have Notion well-placed to continue dominating the market. That being said, the launch of Microsoft-built competitor Loop at the end of 2023 will put Notion's market dominance to the test.

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Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

183% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Oct 2021

$275m

LATE VC

Apr 2020

$50m

LATE VC

Total funding: $335m

Company benefits

  • Dog-friendly office
  • 401k matching
  • Parental leaave
  • Free lunches
  • Equipment stipend
  • Monthly commuter credits
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Company values

  • Put Users First
  • Quality With Speed
  • Dedication Is Contagious
  • Feedback Is A Gift
  • Run The Front Page Test

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Ivan worked for Inkling for 2 years in Product, but was disappointed by the lack of a simple way of collaborating on projects. To fit this need, he co-founded Notion in 2013, serving as CEO since.

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