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Manager, Product Design

Remote - United States
What We’re Building
Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023! 
 
If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases. 
 
Who We Are
We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers.
 
How We Work
We are a remote-first company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. #LI-Remote

Little more about the team:

As a Manager of Product Design, you will lead and support a team of senior and staff designers across the entire customer journey within the Land and Expand product domains of Honeycomb. Your focus will be on fostering a diverse, inclusive, high-performing design team that drives product development toward seamless and impactful experiences that delight our customers.
 
You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to align design strategy with business goals, ensuring cohesive and scalable solutions. By leveraging systems thinking, interaction design, and user research, you’ll help shape intuitive workflows that empower users and enhance experience satisfaction.
 
Additionally, you’ll play a key role in team development, design leadership initiatives, and UX strategy, partnering with the Director of Product Design to elevate design’s impact across the organization. 
 
We are open to Manager and Senior Manager leveling for this role.
 
What you’ll do in the role: 
Healthy and Inclusive team builder
  • Foster a culture of inclusion, psychological safety, and continuous growth, ensuring all designers feel valued, heard, and empowered to do their best work.
  • Support career development through mentorship, feedback, and clear growth opportunities, helping designers advance their craft and leadership skills.
  • Coach designers to be strong triad partners by fostering productive collaboration with Product and Engineering, setting clear team norms for communication, decision-making, and shared ownership of outcomes.

Strategic thinking that moves mountains

  • Set clear direction and goals that translate strategy into action, ensuring your team understands priorities and can confidently drive toward meaningful outcomes.
  • Leverage systems thinking to build and communicate both short- and long-term plans, balancing immediate impact with scalable, future-focused design vision and innovation.
  • Model urgency, high standards, and accountability, setting the pace for excellence while empowering your team to operate with focus, autonomy, and ownership.

Courageous communicator and motivator

  • Communicate with clarity, adaptability, and transparency, ensuring your team and partners stay aligned—especially when priorities shift or decisions evolve.
  • Model and foster a culture of honest, constructive feedback, ensuring open dialogue that strengthens collaboration, trust, and continuous growth.

Develops self and others

  • Invest in the growth and development of your team, providing opportunities, mentorship, and stretch assignments that align with both personal aspirations and business needs.
  • Empower designers with autonomy and trust, balancing guidance with opportunities for ownership, so they can confidently take on bigger challenges and raise their profile within the organization.

Think like an owner

  • Make decisions with a “Honeycomb first” mindset, ensuring design investments align with company priorities while pushing for innovation that creates long-term value.
  • Champion a results-driven, forward-thinking approach, helping your team balance strategic priorities with bold ideas that elevate the customer experience and business impact.

What you’ll bring to the role:

  • Experience managing and mentoring high-performing and collaborative design teams in technical product domains.
  • Demonstrated deep expertise as a practitioner in several core areas of product design such as information architecture, UI design, user research, design thinking, content strategy, and interaction design.
  • Proven ability to align design strategy with business and product goals.
  • A track record of successful partnerships with Product and Engineering. You’re  well-versed in triad-based collaboration and design thinking and can coach your team to be successful collaborators and the voice of the customer in every room.
  • Expertise balancing competing priorities and shaping a cohesive design strategy. You bring a strategic lens to prioritization, ensuring short- and long-term design investments contribute to both product success and a future design team growth.
  • You champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in hiring, team culture, and design practices. You understand that raising the standard for user experiences means ensuring a broad range of perspectives are represented in the design process—leading to more inclusive and effective products. 
  • Enthusiasm for the future of UX. You have the courage to lead and pursue forward-thinking design opportunities while creating space for team-led innovation.
  • A strong portfolio showcasing your ability to drive customer satisfaction and product success through you and your team’s work.

Base pay range for this role is below, depending on experience.

  • Manager: USD $155,000 - $185,000
  • Senior Manager: USD $175,000 - $200,000

What you'll get when you join the Hive:

  • A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
  • It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
  • Time to recharge - Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical
  • A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
  • Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
  • 100% employee/75% for dependents coverage for all benefits 
  • Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
  • Annual development allowance 
  • And much more...
Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.
 
Diversity & Accommodations:
We're building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other, and welcome nontraditional candidates, and people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Further, we (of course) follow federal and state disability laws and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations during the application phase, interview process, and employment. Please email talent@honeycomb.io to discuss accessible formats or accommodations. As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work; if we can do better - we want to know! 
 
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For more information regarding our privacy practices please see the Honeycomb Privacy Notice.
 
If you do not want us to retain your information for consideration for other roles, or want us to update it, please contact privacy@honeycomb.io. Please note, however, that we may retain some information if required by law or as necessary to protect ourselves from legal claims. 

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