Senior Manager, Product Design (f/m/d)

About the Position

Senior Manager, Product Design (f/m/d)

London, England, United Kingdom

About The Opportunity

We're looking for a Senior Manager, Product Design to lead a team of product designers working across some of Contentful’s most foundational product areas: content performance optimization, application platform capabilities, business foundations, and design systems. Contentful is the composable content platform powering how the world's leading brands create, manage, and deliver digital experiences. These teams enable our platform's evolution as we build AI native features - turning ambitious product strategy into intuitive, well-crafted experiences for the customers and partners who build on Contentful every day. You'll balance strategic design leadership with people management: coaching designers, raising the bar on craft, and ensuring design has a strong voice in how these foundational parts of the platform take shape.

Responsibilities

• Manage designers across three product areas: content performance optimization, application platform capabilities, business infrastructure, and design systems.
• Coach career growth, shape how they work, and give them real ownership over their piece of the platform.
• Partner directly with product and engineering leadership on strategy to shape how Optimization, Application Foundations, and Business Foundations evolve.
• Help define what AI-native design leadership looks like at Contentful, at a moment when the company is actively maturing that muscle.
• Collaborate with colleagues globally, with some travel expected.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product design experience, including 3+ years directly managing and developing product designers, ideally at a B2B SaaS or platform company.
• Strong track record of partnering with product and engineering leadership at the strategy level.
• A strong customer-centric orientation.
• Experience shaping and evolving the product design function’s practices within an organization.
• Maintain a high bar for design craft, with a portfolio reflecting strong interaction and visual design fundamentals.
• Experience owning or contributing to a design system at scale.
• Demonstrated success managing distributed, global teams.
• Genuine interest in AI-native product design.
• Strong portfolio evidence of coaching designers' career growth.
• Comfort operating in a technically complex, enterprise/platform context.

We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits (details can be found at Salesforce Benefits).
• Opportunity to shape design at a large scale with Contentful's recent acquisition by Salesforce.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.

About the Company

Contentful is now officially part of Salesforce. When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

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