Senior Staff Design Manager

About the Position

We're hiring a Senior Staff Design Manager to lead a team of product designers and shape the next chapter of design at Patreon. This role is based in New York or San Francisco and is open to those who are able to be in-office 3 days per week on a hybrid work model.

About the Team

The Design team at Patreon is responsible for the full consumer experience across our creator and fan products. The team spans product design and content design, working across Patreon's core surfaces: memberships, community, live video, and direct sales. Designers here are embedded in cross-functional teams alongside product, engineering, and data, and are expected to drive outcomes, not just deliver assets.

About the Role

As Senior Staff Design Manager, you'll lead a team of 6-7 product designers alongside another senior design manager, and represent the design leadership bench at Patreon.

You'll lead by example in the craft, not just through management: staying close to the work in Figma, prototyping, or production code, while partnering across product and engineering to shape the next chapter of design at Patreon.

You'll also be a strong external voice for the design team, helping build Patreon's reputation as a place where great designers want to work.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of product designers
• Stay close to the work in Figma, prototyping, or production code
• Partner across product and engineering to shape the next chapter of design at Patreon
• Be a strong external voice for the design team

Requirements

• Proven experience in shipping distinctive consumer software where design was central to the product's market position
• Leadership experience in Figma, prototyping, or production code
• Proven management success across different sizes and shapes of design teams
• Real AI fluency: daily use of tools and measurable, team-wide transformation in velocity, quality, or scope
• Track record of building and holding high talent density
• Strategic thought partner across functions, oriented toward shared outcomes rather than territory
• Strong external voice for your team's work, brand, and craft

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $266K – $398.5K
• Equity options
• Comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, flexible time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and 401k plan with matching

About the Company

Patreon powers creators to do what they love and get paid by the people who love what they do. Our team is passionate about making this mission and our core values come to life every day in our work. Through this work, our Patronauts:

• Put Creators First: They’re the reason we’re here. When creators win, we win.
• Build with Craft: We sign our name to every deliverable, just like the creators we serve.
• Make it Happen: We don’t quit. We learn and deliver.
• Win Together: We grow as individuals. We win as a team.

Patreon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the interview process, please let us know via email at accommodations@patreon.

Apply now to join our team and help us continue to build the best creator platform with the best team in the creator economy.