Product Design Manager - Content

Overview

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We’re hiring a Product Design Manager to lead the team building Content Designer—Staffbase's creation tool that helps communicators generate, adapt, and refine content across channels. You’ll report to the VP of Product Experience and operate as a player-coach: Coach, mentor, and develop a high-impact team of Product Designers; stay hands-on for the product to set the quality bar and accelerate delivery.

You’ll partner closely with a Group PM, Engineering Manager(s), and collaborators across Data, Research, and Customer teams to deliver an intuitive, trustworthy, and efficient creation experience.

What you'll be doing

• Manage 6 Product Designers; set goals, run critique, and invest in craft and career growth
• Define the long-term UX strategy for Content Designer (creation → editing → review → publish), aligned with business outcomes and product vision
• Ensure Content Designer is built as an AI-native experience—where generative capabilities, human-in-the-loop review, and adaptive guidance are embedded into the core workflows rather than bolted on
• Take on high-leverage projects (e.g., new creation flows, evaluation UX, or cross-channel adaptation) to unblock and model standards
• Establish patterns for prompts, tone/voice controls, content structure, and accessibility; contribute to (and consume from) our design system
• Define success metrics (quality, time-to-first-draft, adoption, latency tolerance, trust signals) and use experiments to improve them
• Ensure Content Designer integrates seamlessly with planning, approvals, and publishing across Staffbase channels
• Bring insights from research and customer-facing teams into clear product decisions; communicate progress to stakeholders and leadership

What you need to be successful

• 6+ years in Product/UX Design with 3+ years leading designers on cross-functional teams
• Portfolio showing end-to-end product thinking and hands-on craft in complex tools or creation workflows
• Comfortable operating at two levels: hands-on in the details of design craft when needed, and strategic in shaping vision, systems, and team direction
• Strength in systems thinking (pattern libraries, information architecture, accessibility)
• Proven track record aligning design strategy with product and business outcomes
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
• Experience with evaluation frameworks for AI-assisted features (human-in-the-loop review, quality ratings, prompt patterns)
• Familiarity with governance & trust topics (auditability, transparency, error handling)
• Experience designing or AI-assisted experiences (e.g., editors, assistive suggestions, templating, or automation) is a huge plus
• Background working across multi-channel publishing products
• Empathy, curiosity, and a bias for action

What you'll get

• Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including LTIP (unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan)
• Flexibility - flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, with a yearly flex work allowance of €1560
• Growth Budget - yearly external training budget of €1000 and one day off for growth per year (increase to two days in the 2nd year)
• Recharge - 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August
• Wellbeing - Monthly Wellbeing Allowance €35, from fitness to mental health, hobbies to relaxation
• Support - company pension scheme
• Health - offices equipped with fruits, drinks, snacks and ergonomic workplaces
• Volunteers Day - one day off per year for supporting a social project
• Employee Referral Program - referral bonus if a friend is a fit for a full-time opening

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet

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