Product Design Manager

About this role

Product Design Manager

Olly Olly

US-Based | Full-Time - Austin TX & Charolette NC are preferred

About the Role

We are looking for a Product Design Manager to lead our product design team at Olly Olly. This is a player-coach leadership role — you are responsible for design outcomes, not just design output. You will spend the majority of your time managing and elevating the work of your team, with roughly 20-30% of your time contributing directly as a designer yourself on high-priority work.

Design at Olly Olly should be practical, fast, and thoughtful. We want someone who sees AI as part of the design workflow — not a side tool — and who can help the team use LLMs and prototyping tools to move faster, think more clearly, and test ideas earlier, while still maintaining a high bar for craft, usability, and clarity.

You will report to our CPO and work in close partnership with engineering and product to ensure great design ships — not just great mockups.

Three Direct Reports

• UX/UI Product Designer (in-app)
• UX/UI Product Designer (in-app)
• UI/Web Designer (marketing and brand-adjacent)

What You Will Own

• Day-to-day management of a three-person design team — running design reviews, unblocking work, giving direct feedback, and raising the bar on quality
• The design system and visual language for our core product, ensuring consistency across every screen and interaction
• UX flows, wireframes, and prototypes for new features — from early problem definition through to production-ready specs
• Design QA — making sure what gets built matches what was designed
• Improving how product, design, and engineering work together — ensuring design is involved early in problem definition, not just UI delivery
• Collaboration with engineering and product on sprint planning, roadmap prioritization, and tradeoff decisions
• Darko's output across UI and web — reviewing his work and ensuring brand and product design stay visually coherent
• A culture of proto...