Product Design Manager

Product Design Manager

Category Design & User Experience

Location New York, New York; Mountain View, California; New York, New York

Job ID 20264

Company Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.

Job Overview

QuickBooks supports millions of small and mid‑sized businesses managing real money, real employees, and real risk. Designing in this space requires clarity in complexity, systems thinking at scale, and an uncompromising commitment to craft.

As a Product Design Manager, you will lead a team to shape the experience direction of a complex product domain. You’ll connect initiatives across teams, improve system integrity, and influence roadmap decisions through strong user‑centered thinking. This role goes beyond shipping features – you are responsible for how an entire area works, evolves, and maintains clarity at scale.

Responsibilities

People Leadership

• Lead a team of 4+ designers
• Develop templates, processes, and frameworks for elevating craft
• Use judgement to prioritize the most important work and put resources against it
• Grow and develop your team of designers
• Player/coach who rolls up their sleeves to support the team

Strategic Design Leadership

• Shape experience strategy across a complex product domain
• Influence roadmap direction and prioritization through user‑centered perspective
• Connect multiple initiatives to ensure cohesive patterns and workflows
• Identify systemic friction within your domain and drive resolution
• Define domain‑level success metrics aligned to customer and business outcomes

Craft Excellence & Systems Thinking

• Distill complex workflows into clear, intuitive experiences
• Model high standards of interaction and visual quality
• Strengthen shared patterns and evolve design standards within your domain
• Balance innovation with long‑term system integrity
• Drive consistency across multiple teams contributing to your area

Data Fluency & Technical Partnership

• Use qualitative and quantitative insights to inform domain‑level tradeoffs
• Partner deeply with Engineering and Data to ensure scalable solutions
• Align instrumentation and metrics with experience intent
• Guide the thoughtful integration of AI and automation within your domain

Influence & Organizational Impact

• Influence cross‑functional stakeholders through structured, strategic thinking
• Lead domain‑level critiques and alignment sessions
• Mentor and develop a team of designers and elevate craft across the team
• Advocate for higher quality standards and clearer design principles

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience
• 1-3 years of design management experience
• Demonstrated ownership of a complex product domain
• Strong systems thinking and pattern‑level judgment
• Experience influencing roadmap and product strategy
• A portfolio showing domain‑level impact and measurable outcomes

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is: