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About the Role
We are seeking an experienced, strategic, and operationally rigorous Senior Design Manager to lead the product design team dedicated to our consumer experience. In this role, you will define and execute the end-to-end consumer journey across compass.com and the Compass consumer mobile app (iOS and Android), reaching millions of home browsers, buyers, and sellers.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design vision and execution for consumer touchpoints, including compass.com and the Compass iOS/Android native mobile apps.
- Drive cohesive, modern, and high-converting discovery, search, listing exploration, and decision-making experiences across platforms.
- Drive continuous, high-visibility alignment with senior leadership.
- Confidently interface with and present to Directors, VPs, and executive stakeholders, framing design challenges around business value and customer outcomes.
- Ensure executive feedback is rapidly synthesized and integrated into team priorities.
- Drive rigorous operational discipline across all design workstreams.
- Proactively scope and resource projects, manage capacity, establish delivery milestones, and track project timelines in close collaboration with Product and Program Management.
- Ensure design commitments are met with predictability in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
- Manage, coach, and inspire a team of product designers (spanning mid-level to senior/staff ICs).
- Conduct regular 1:1s, support career growth paths, drive performance evaluations, and foster a collaborative, psychologically safe team environment.
- Coach designers on leading complex projects, articulating design rationale, and managing stakeholder dynamics.
- Champion an uncompromising bar for design quality.
- Conduct hands-on critiques and reviews to elevate visual finish, interaction polish, information architecture, accessibility, and overall usability across responsive web and native mobile interfaces.
- Foster high-trust, peer-level partnerships with Product Management, Engineering, and Analytics leads.
- Act as a facilitative leader who aligns multi-quarter roadmaps, resolves dependencies, balances technical feasibility with customer delight, and drives shared accountability for consumer KPIs.
- Partner closely with Design Systems and Engineering teams to implement reusable component patterns and design tokens.
- Ensure unified brand consistency and seamless transitions between web, mobile web, and native mobile apps.
- Champion continuous user research and data-driven iteration.
- Guide your team in planning qualitative usability testing, competitive benchmarking, and quantitative metrics tracking, translating insights into actionable design iterations.
- Identify team staffing needs, shape job requisitions, and partner with Talent Acquisition to recruit, interview, and close exceptional, diverse product design talent.
- Actively contribute to company-wide design operations, leveling frameworks, and design culture.
Requirements
- 8-10+ years of total product/UX design experience.
- 2-4+ years of dedicated people management experience directly leading and developing product designers in high-growth, modern technology organizations.
- Demonstrated success leading design for high-traffic, consumer-facing digital products across both responsive web platforms and native mobile applications (iOS and Android) at scale.
- Proven capability operating across, down, and up—effortlessly managing direct reports, collaborating across EPD disciplines, and engaging Director-, VP-, and C-suite stakeholders with executive poise and clarity.
- Proven ability to manage complex resourcing across multiple concurrent tracks of work, establish dependable delivery cadences, track timeline health, and adapt swiftly to shifting business priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Exceptional verbal, visual, and written communication skills.
- Proven track record of pitching strategic design vision, building consensus, and leading high-stakes reviews with executive and cross-functional leadership.
- Demonstrated track record of coaching designers through ambiguous product spaces, elevating individual craft, conducting fair and constructive performance reviews, and retaining top talent.
- Deep fluency in native iOS Human Interface Guidelines, Android Material Design, responsive web paradigms, design systems governance, and modern design tooling (Figma, advanced prototyping).
- Experience partnering with UXR and Product Analytics to leverage qualitative feedback and quantitative behavioral data to inform design decisions and measure consumer impact.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design, Product Design, or equivalent practical industry experience.
- Experience in real estate tech, two-sided marketplaces, consumer discovery/search, or similar consumer-facing platforms.
- Experience integrating AI-assisted search, personalized recommendations, or intelligent discovery tools into consumer surfaces.
- Active involvement in the broader design leadership community or design mentorship programs.
Skills
- Product Design
- UX Design
- People Management
- Design Vision
- Design Execution
- Consumer Experience
- Web Design
- Mobile App Design
- iOS
- Android
- Cross-functional Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Management
- Operational Rigor
- Timeline Tracking
- Talent Development
- Design Craft
- Usability Standards
- Accessibility
- Design Systems
- User Research
- Data Analysis
- Figma
- Prototyping
- Human Interface Guidelines
- Material Design
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 8-10+ years of product/UX design experience
- 2-4+ years of people management experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Product Design, or equivalent practical industry experience
- Master's degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Product Design, or equivalent practical industry experience
Salary/Compensations
- $193,000-$215,000 annually
Benefits
- Incentive programs (cash, equity, or commissions)
- Paid vacation
- Holidays
- Sick time
- Parental leave
- Recharge leave
- Medical benefits
- Tele-health benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
- Commuter program
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Maven (support system for new parents)
- Carrot (fertility benefits)
- UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pet insurance
About the Company
- Compass's mission is to help everyone find their place in the world.
- Founded in 2012, Compass is revolutionizing the real estate industry with its end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients.
Equal Opportunity
- At Compass, we believe that everyone deserves to find their place in the world — a place where they feel like they belong, where they can be their authentic selves, where they can thrive.
- Our collaborative, energetic culture is grounded in our Compass Entrepreneurship Principles and our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, growth and mobility.
- As an equal opportunity employer, we offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits and professional growth opportunities aimed at helping to improve our employees' lives and careers.
- Notice for California Applicants
- Los Angeles County Fair Chance Notice