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Production Design Manager
Airbnb
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Airbnb is looking for an experienced Production Design Manager to help us visualize the future of travel. You are ready to lead and grow a Production Design as part of a world class design and engineering organization. You have developed an aesthetic taste that is distinctive and admired and you love the details and pixel-precision. You will report to a Design Director and as part of Airbnb’s creative leadership team you’ll both gain from and contribute to one of the industry’s best design cultures.
As a successful Production Design Manager, you will:
• Partner closely with foundational teams from both Design and Engineering to develop creative, useful and delightful solutions to complex problems.
• Build and grow the Production Design team and mentor the professional development of each direct report through personal coaching and performance management
• Give Production Designers the tools, confidence, and motivation to make decisions independently that lead to the recognition of your team and not just yourself
• Initiate cross-functional collaboration with product teams, including XD, Content Strategy, L10n, Eng and Marketing
• Drive bottom-up quality and innovation and elevate the team’s brand both internally and externally in the industry.
• Ensure the team fully understands the goals and objectives of Airbnb as a company and how their work fits into 'the bigger picture.'
• Embrace the Adventure: be flexible, eager to learn and to leave your comfort zone
• Seasoned manager, leader and maker overseeing a large team delivering great work across multiple project streams at once. Help shape teams and the way we work.
• Have a relentless commitment to quality and accountability
Responsibilities
• Manage, grow and develop a team of 8+ Production Designers, supporting the career and health of your full time employee reports.
• Develop quantifiable goals and success metrics for the team and hold the team accountable to them.
• Define and implement a scalable operating model to support Product and Marketing initiatives across the whole company.
• Champion the Production Design team and build cross-functional partnerships.
• Provide up-to-date visibility into current projects, resource allocation and utilization, team health and performance.
• Continuously strive for quality and automation by evaluating process, tools and technologies. Help set technical direction for the team.
• Uphold standards and best practices, ensuring a standard of excellence and reliability across the team.
• Cultivate, negotiate and manage relationships with external contractors and agencies. Includes contract execution and financial reporting.
• Create process documentation and guidelines to help the whole Design team ship to the highest level of detail.
• Work with the team to maintain and catalog Airbnb’s Design Language System templates and asset libraries (illustrations, motion, icons) across all platforms
• Work with the team to deliver and evolve it’s offerings, including:
◦ Building out and localizing screens across platforms
◦ Product Design speccing for engineering
◦ Flexible business requirements support for photo retouching, banner creation, email templates and content curation
Requirements
• 6+ years of hands-on experience with Graphic/Production Design
• 4+ years of management and leadership of a team of at least 5 designers
• A diverse portfolio that exhibits excellent use of typography, color, imagery, information architecture and attention to detail.
• Experience designing for mobile devices.
• Full knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Knowledge of front end markup: HTML/CSS/JQuery.
• Familiarity with GitHub.
• Expert at managing a ticket queue, familiarity with JIRA
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills (verbal, written and visual)
• Experience working with large scale Design Systems and asset libraries
• Strong collaborator with engineering and experience design, marketing and localization
• Demonstrated ability to help a team navigate ambiguity, set vision and strategy
• Have cross-platform design experience (Web, android, iOS, emails)