Senior Design Manager, Superhuman
$200-235k
Salary for US applicants. Our Canada-based salaries for this role range from $182,000 - $215,000 CAD + Stock options
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AI productivity suite
Job no longer available
AI productivity suite
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$200-235k
Salary for US applicants. Our Canada-based salaries for this role range from $182,000 - $215,000 CAD + Stock options
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock the superhuman potential in everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: You have 6+ years of experience in consumer-facing technology companies or startups, with 2+ years of experience leading and managing design teams
- Leadership: You have a track record of leading and developing high-performing, inclusive, and mission-driven design teams. Building a culture of inclusion is not an afterthought. It’s the first thing you champion as a project leader, people manager, and teammate, and are comfortable leading through an inclusive lens
- Expertise: You have a demonstrated mastery of product design, prototyping, visual design, interaction design, typography, and layout & visual hierarchy, with an ability to coach and elevate others' craft through thoughtful mentorship
- Vision: You have led the design strategy of a product, turning long-term objectives into initiatives that you and your teams successfully executed against
- AI Enthusiast: You believe AI will revolutionize both how we work and the experiences we create for our customers. Driven by passion and curiosity, you embrace AI to up-level your team's productivity and impact, creating delight, delivering exceptional quality, and embracing the extraordinary in everything you do
- Curiosity: You love exploring new and existing paradigms to add to your repertoire of ideas and solutions. You are exceptionally curious about technology, design, product, and people. You never feel done learning your craft
- Innovation: You thrive in ambiguity and are excited by the opportunity to design processes that can help you understand, iterate, and validate your design intuition and ideas
- Delight & Empathy: You understand human behavior and develop targeted strategies with this in mind. You enjoy creating delight and moments of pleasant surprise
- Excellent Communicator: You're able to distill complexity into clear and concise messaging. You’re effective across various mediums and are excellent at working in a remote-first environment
What the job involves
- Build and manage a high-performing design team through mentorship, coaching, and clear goal-setting to drive both individual and collective growth
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to plan resources, establish milestones, and ensure smooth delivery of design work across projects
- Drive design quality and innovation by establishing robust review processes, feedback mechanisms, and design tooling infrastructure
- Create and champion point-of-views on resolving UX debt and identifying opportunities for design innovation across products
- Lead the planning and execution of discovery projects to develop new features and design directions, while de-risking design complexities
- Guide the team in elevating their craft across UI/UX design, visual design, and product copy through hands-on mentorship and structured training
- Develop and implement day-to-day design management processes and enablement tools to facilitate efficient, high-quality design work
- Foster a team culture that embraces extraordinary quality, remarkable attention to detail, and continuous innovation
- Provide strategic design leadership in project execution, from conception through launch, ensuring alignment with company principles and quality standards
- Build strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, and senior leadership to influence product strategy and champion design excellence
Our take
Most of us spend our workday jumping between emails, documents, meetings, and endless browser tabs. The problem isn't just the amount of work but the constant switching between tools that breaks focus and wastes time. Instead of getting things done, we're searching for information, rewriting messages, and trying to remember what happened in yesterday's meeting. And now, as AI becomes more common, it brings with it a new issue: every app has its own assistant, but they rarely work together.
That's the problem Superhuman wants to solve. Rather than being just another AI chatbot, it's building an AI-powered productivity platform that connects the tools people already use. Its new assistant, Superhuman Go, works across more than 100 apps to draft emails, surface meeting notes, pull information from different tools, and suggest what to do next. Simply, it helps users spend less time managing software and more time doing meaningful work.
The company's recent evolution reflects this ambition too. After Grammarly acquired Superhuman Mail and Coda, it rebranded the combined business as Superhuman, bringing email, documents, and AI assistance into one platforms. Rather than focusing only on writing, the company aims to become the AI layer that connects modern work. If it can successfully unite these products and grow its ecosystem of AI agents, then it very well could become a central hub for workplace productivity.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
37% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$75m
SERIES C
May 2019
$37.7m
SERIES B
Total funding: $112.7m
Company benefits
- Tiered lifestyle & wellness stipends: Every team member enjoys lifestyle and wellness stipends they can use for gym memberships and exercise classes, grocery delivery, cleaning services, childcare, and more. On top of that, we offer larger stipends depending on how often you commute to a hub.
- Commuting support & work-from-home budget: We help offset commuting costs through commuter benefits, and we offer an annual work-from-home budget so you can create a workspace that works for you.
- Lunch (and snacks) on us: When you’re in the hub, lunch is on us. And every hub is stocked with snacks and drinks throughout the day.
- Medical insurance & mental health resources: We provide comprehensive medical insurance plans and access to mental health resources. But our approach to wellness doesn’t stop here. We offer a wide range of holistic resources that vary by region.
- Support for professional growth: We provide an annual professional development budget to support learning and growth. Use it for conferences, books, online courses, coaching, or other opportunities that help you move forward in your career.
- Generous time off & Supercharge Sabbaticals: Our approach to time off supports meaningful rest and real time away, giving you the space to recharge and make room for life as it happens. At your 5- and 10-year anniversaries, you’ll also unlock a Supercharge Sabbatical, which gives you an additional 20 or 40 days off to fully step away and reset.
- Connecting through Superhuman Circles: Superhuman Circles are resource groups that foster connection, community, and inclusivity. Join an existing circle or start one of your own to help co-create a culture of belonging.
- Parental & family support: We support parents and families across different life stages with benefits that often extend beyond legal requirements depending on location. Caregivers have access to a reimbursable budget to help offset pet care and childcare expenses when traveling for work.
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Rahul Vohra
(Co-Founder & CEO)Before founding Superhuman, Rahul was a Technical Advisor for BOLDstart Ventures, which provides seed and first-round funding to early-stage internet companies. Rahul has also been an investor in Partender, sendwithus, EasyPost, Placer and YesGraph.
Conrad Irwin
(Co-Founder & CTO)After founding Rapportive, which added context and transparency to emails, Conrad worked as a Senior Software Engineer for Linkedin. Before co-founding Superhuman, they were the VP of Engineering for Bugsnag, an automatic crash detector for web and mobile apps.
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