Product Design Manager, Staffbase
Content
+ Long Term Incentive Plan
Employee communications platform
Job no longer available
Employee communications platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Long Term Incentive Plan
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower communicators worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years in Product/UX Design with 3+ years leading designers on cross-functional teams
- Portfolio showing end-to-end product thinking and hands-on craft in complex tools or creation workflows
- Comfortable operating at two levels: hands-on in the details of design craft when needed, and strategic in shaping vision, systems, and team direction
- Strength in systems thinking (pattern libraries, information architecture, accessibility)
- Proven track record aligning design strategy with product and business outcomes
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience with evaluation frameworks for AI-assisted features (human-in-the-loop review, quality ratings, prompt patterns)
- Familiarity with governance & trust topics (auditability, transparency, error handling)
- Experience designing or AI-assisted experiences (e.g., editors, assistive suggestions, templating, or automation) is a huge plus
- Background working across multi-channel publishing products
- Empathy, curiosity, and a bias for action
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Product Design Manager to lead the team building Content Designer—Staffbase’s creation tool that helps communicators generate, adapt, and refine content across channels
- You’ll report to the VP of Product Experience and operate as a player-coach:
- Coach: mentor, and develop a high-impact team of Product Designers
- Player: stay hands-on for the product to set the quality bar and accelerate delivery
- You’ll partner closely with a Group PM, Engineering Manager(s), and collaborators across Data, Research, and Customer teams to deliver an intuitive, trustworthy, and efficient creation experience
- Manage 6 Product Designers; set goals, run critique, and invest in craft and career growth
- Define the long-term UX strategy for Content Designer (creation → editing → review → publish), aligned with business outcomes and product vision
- Ensure Content Designer is built as an AI-native experience—where generative capabilities, human-in-the-loop review, and adaptive guidance are embedded into the core workflows rather than bolted on
- Take on high-leverage projects (e.g., new creation flows, evaluation UX, or cross-channel adaptation) to unblock and model standards
- Establish patterns for prompts, tone/voice controls, content structure, and accessibility; contribute to (and consume from) our design system
- Define success metrics (quality, time-to-first-draft, adoption, latency tolerance, trust signals) and use experiments to improve them
- Ensure Content Designer integrates seamlessly with planning, approvals, and publishing across Staffbase channels
- Bring insights from research and customer-facing teams into clear product decisions; communicate progress to stakeholders and leadership
Our take
Staffbase is the first AI-native employee experience platform and it's built to help companies keep their people connected - an employee app, intranet, email, SMS, digital signagfee, and Microsoft 365 integrations - all in one place. With more than 2,000 customers worldwide, including Adidas, Toyota, DHL, and Sephora, Staffbase is helping organisations build stronger, more aligned workplaces.
With teams spread across offices, countries, and time zones, companies need reliable ways to keep everyone informed and engaged. And Staffbase does just that, making communication simpler and more effective for every employee. Its tools, including an AI-powered Staffbase Companion assistant, give people the information they need quickly, so they can work more collaboratively with confidence.
A major leap forward for the company is Employee AI, Staffbase's new foundation for the next era of employee experience. Built on trusted data, governance, adn braod reach, it'sd esigned to make AI genuinely uselful for every employee. Features rolling out through 2025 and 2026 include a mobile-first AI assistant that helps employees complete tasks, hyper-personalised weekly podcasts, smarter content governance that keeps information up to date, and prompt-based tools that help teams create high-quality content faster.
With such strong momentum, industry recognition (like being named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for three years in a row), and a partnership with Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service, Staffbase is very much ready for the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2022
$124m
SERIES E
Mar 2021
$145m
SERIES D
Total funding: $324.2m
Company HQ
Altchemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
Leadership
Martin Böhringer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded productivity app builder startup Hojoki, serving as CEO before co-founding Staffbase in 2014.
Lutz Gerlach
(Co-Founder & COO)Before Staffbase, co-founded and served as COO of Hojoki.
Frank Wolf
(Co-Founder & President)Previously worked in Social Technologies and Collaboration for T-Systems Multimedia Solutions (T-Mobile), following seven years as a Manager for Accenture.
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