Senior Manager, Product Design

Xometry is hiring a Senior Manager of Product Design to lead a team of designers within one or more Strategic Product and Technology Organizations (STOs). You are accountable for delivery, quality, and team performance. This is not a coordination role. You are responsible for ensuring your team delivers clear, high-quality, executable design work on time, with no surprises, through leadership and hands-on execution. You will partner with Product and Engineering leadership to shape direction, enforce standards, and remove ambiguity.

How You’ll Contribute:

Team Performance

• Lead and develop a team of designers (Senior and mid-level)
• Set clear expectations for ownership, quality, and communication
• Hold designers accountable for outcomes, not just outputs
• Address performance issues directly and quickly

Product Thinking and Problem Framing

• Frame ambiguous problems into clear design direction before execution begins
• Ensure design decisions are grounded in user and business outcomes, not aesthetics alone
• Drive clarity on what problem is being solved before work starts, not after
• Push back on poorly defined requirements rather than accepting them at face value

Delivery and Execution

• Own design delivery across your team (quality, pacing, predictability)
• Ensure work is complete, structured, and ready for Engineering
• Enforce a clear definition of done
• Surface risks and tradeoffs early

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner with Product and Engineering to define scope and priorities
• Ensure design is influencing direction, not reacting to requirements
• Resolve ambiguity and alignment issues quickly
• Act as an escalation point for unclear or misaligned problem framing

AI-Enabled Execution

• Ensure design outputs are structured and unambiguous
• Support workflows that enable AI-assisted development
• Drive adoption of tools and practices that improve speed and reduce rework
• Can describe specific AI-assisted design workflows, not just tools used

Systems Thinking

• Ensure design decisions scale across surfaces, platforms, and future use cases
• Maintain coherence across the broader design system and product ecosystem
• Identify downstream implications of design choices on other teams’ work

Quality and Standards

• Maintain a high bar for interaction design, usability, and consistency
• Ensure alignment with design systems and accessibility standards
• Lead design reviews focused on clarity and execution readiness

What You'll Bring to Xometry:

• 10+ years of experience in product design, including 2+ years managing designers
• Proven track record of driving product decisions through design and systems thinking
• Experience working closely with Product, Research, and Engineering teams
• Strong ability to translate ambiguous problems into clear, executable design direction
• Experience operating in fast-paced, product-driven environments
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills
• Examples of AI-assisted workflows in portfolio (e.g., AI-generated prototypes, prompt-driven design systems, AI-supported research synthesis)
• Experience with B2B, marketplace, or operational platforms
• Experience working with design systems and component-based design
• Exposure to AI-assisted design or development workflows
• Experience scaling teams or processes in growing organizations

The estimated base salary range for new hires into this role is $180,000-$200,000.00 annually + bonus depending on factors such as job-related skills, relevant experience, and location. We also offer a competitive benefits package, including 401(k) match, medical, dental and vision insurance; life and disability insurance; generous paid time off including vacation, sick leave, floating and fixed holidays, maternity and bonding leave; EAP, other wellbeing resources; and much more.

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