Design Manager, Pigment
Enterprise business planning platform (EMP, CPM)
Posted today
Enterprise business planning platform (EMP, CPM)
201-500 employees
Posted today
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable people and businesses to make better decisions.
Role
Who you are
- You're an experienced Product Design leader with proven people-management experience in a high-quality product organisation
- You've managed and developed Product Designers through coaching, feedback, performance conversations and career development
- You have a strong understanding of end-to-end Product Design and enough hands-on craft expertise to review work, challenge thinking and raise the quality bar
- You're comfortable working on complex B2B software and partnering closely with Product Managers and Engineers
- You're an excellent communicator who can create alignment across Design, Product and Engineering
- You have a strong operational mindset and enjoy improving processes, team rituals and how a Design organisation works
- You can balance people leadership and delivery with longer-term Design strategy
- You're proactive and autonomous, you identify opportunities to improve the organisation rather than simply maintaining existing processes
- You're interested in measuring Design's effectiveness and connecting Design work to meaningful product and business outcomes
What the job involves
- Manage, coach and develop Product Designers, creating clear expectations, regular feedback and meaningful opportunities for growth
- Build a strong, collaborative Design culture and create the conditions for designers to do their best work
- Own and improve Design operations, including team rituals, planning, processes and ways of working
- Supervise design work and maintain a high bar for craft, UX quality and product thinking across the team
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders to align people, priorities and delivery
- Help designers navigate complex B2B product problems while balancing user needs, business outcomes and technical constraints
- Contribute hands-on where it adds the most value while remaining primarily focused on management and team effectiveness
- Develop frameworks, processes and best practices that help our Design organisation scale
- Help define meaningful Design KPIs and OKRs and improve how we understand and communicate Design's impact
- Identify capability gaps and contribute to the future shape and hiring needs of the Design organisation
- What success looks like:
- You'll help create a Design team that is well supported, operating effectively and consistently producing exceptional work
- Our designers will have clearer direction and stronger development support. Our Design organisation will have better processes, greater management capacity and a clearer understanding of its impact and the capabilities we'll need as we continue to grow
Our take
In an ever-changing world, demand for more effective and accessible planning tools is rising. Pigment is meeting this demand with its business planning platform.
Pigment’s platform is disrupting a market that has long been dominated by generic spreadsheet programs like Excel. Its primary focus lies on forecasting and planning, enabling businesses to model and test outcomes. This is designed to improve the efficacy and reliability of decision making.
Taking on incumbents such as Excel, which boasts around one billion users, is no easy feat. However, Pigment’s innovative forecasting tools, ease-of-use and significant funding should give it a fighting chance in a market that is continuing to make space for disruptors. They have attracted impressive clients including Figma, PayFit, and Gong.
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Insights
83% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2024
$145m
SERIES D
May 2023
$80m
SERIES C
Total funding: $388.9m
Company benefits
- Healthcare including dental
- Brand new offices in the heart of Paris, London (Liverpool Street), New York and Toronto
- One company offsite every year in Paris
- Generous maternity (16 weeks full pay) /paternity leave (5 weeks full pay + 4 weeks half time work but fully paid)
- 50% home work stipend covered by Pigment
- Free Lunches
- Monthly office socials. Quarterly team socials
- Hybrid work policy (40% remote) 🇪🇺
- 50% travel paid for 🇪🇺
Company values
- Thrive together - We can only win as a team. We are all founders and do the right thing for our peers, Pigment, customers, partners, and the planet
- Never settle - Aim to become the best at what you do by delivering with rigor and ambition every day. Delivering for us means to build a passionate Pigment community
- Go for it - We are biased towards action. Every action leads us to learning and these learnings get us one step closer to our mission
- Be real, be humble - We are generous with our feedback, open to change our views and we approach it with empathy, knowing everyone is trying to do the best for Pigment
Company HQ
Arts-et-Métiers, Paris, France
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Leadership
Romain Niccoli
(Co-CEO)Previously founded Criteo, where they served as CTO for 11 years. Went onto co-found LESS in 2017. Is an Advisor for Remeniz and Ledger.
Eléonore Crespo
(Co-CEO)Worked at Google for 3 years, first as Product Analyst and then as Financial Analyst. Has been a Board Observer at Slite, Spendesk, and Alan.
People progressing
Tania joined as a CSM and was amongst our first London hires! She quickly impressed and today holds the role of Team Lead for our CSMs in EMEA. She also Co-leads our DEI Council.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Pigment
Tania Pennick (CSM Team Lead, EMEA)
- Company commitments and policy relating to DEI, including commitments regarding Next40
- All Pigmenauts go through annual unconscious bias training
- We have a dedicated employee run DEI Council, and bi-weekly meetings for this team
- We pass our job adverts through gender indexing to ensure they are neutral in content style
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