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Product Design Manager
Instagram
Menlo Park, CA, United States
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Product Design Manager - Instagram Wellbeing (Menlo Park)
Instagram is a global community of more than 1 billion, which means jobs here offer countless ways to make an impact in a fast growing organization. Instagram was built to connect people to the people and interests they love. Our app has played a critical part in forming meaningful communities where people can connect with each other and share what matters most to them.
The Instagram Well-being team is looking for a design leader focused on making Instagram the kindest, safest, most supportive social network possible. Our design team partners with a broad cross-functional teams including researchers, data scientists, and policy experts to reduce bad experiences on Instagram while finding ways to amplify the good and help people be more in control of their experience.
This is a unique Leadership opportunity to help solve one of the most important problems we can solve in tech – how do we help people connect with friends and the things they care about around the world while staying safe and maintaining a spirit of kindness. Over the last few years, we’ve made a lot of progress so there’s a good foundation to build on, but there’s a big opportunity to make things better and when you do you’ll be affecting a billion people!
Instagram has a strong design culture and you’ll have the opportunity to learn a lot about how to build well-crafted products at scale, at the same time we’ll also be looking to you to help influence and shape the Instagram design culture for future.
Responsibilities
• Manage and develop a team of designers (currently 3, growing to 4) that requires setting clear goals, managing project loads and allocating designers accordingly, ensuring deadlines are met and setting up team members for overall success.
• Guide the team to develop best practices for ensuring a high bar of quality.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product management, engineering, user research and communication design to ensure a smooth product development process.
• Recruit new designers and actively participate in the hiring process.
• Roll up your sleeves and contribute as a designer when necessary.
• Execute in a fast-paced and highly fluid environment.
• Collaborate with teams in other offices.
Minimum Qualifications
• Minimum 2 years industry experience in a people management role on a Design team.
• Minimum 5 years of design experience.
• Experience leading product strategy.
• Experience communicating data to drive change.
• A portfolio of work that contains examples of Interaction (UX) Design and Visual Systems Development for digital applications that work in cross-browser environments.