Maintainx
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Product Design Manager

Location
San Francisco, CA (Remote) · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Lead / Staff
Experience
6+ years
Listed
Today

Skills & highlights for this role

  • product design
  • B2B SaaS or enterprise platform experience
  • design critique
  • people management
  • product strategy
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • expert-level English

Also useful

  • design systems
  • AI-powered product experience design
  • mobile design
  • industrial or operations software experience

What You'll Do

  • Own design quality across your team's product areas for web and mobile. Guide designers through ambiguity, review work with a sharp eye, and ensure what ships is grounded in real user needs and built to a high standard.
  • Lead and grow a team of 4-6 product designers. Run 1:1s, drive career growth, deliver clear feedback, and build a team culture where people do their best work. You'll be responsible for hiring, performance, and developing the next generation of design talent at MaintainX.
  • Translate product strategy into focused design execution. Help your team understand not just what they're building, but why it matters. Set a clear, directional vision for your team's focus, rooted in customer understanding and business context.
  • Partner closely with Product Managers and Engineering leads. Align on priorities, unblock delivery, and advocate for design quality and user needs in every conversation.
  • Raise the craft bar. Contribute to design critiques, invest in our design system, and ensure consistency and coherence across the experiences your team touches.
  • Lead your team in adopting AI tools and practices to accelerate design work and push the quality and speed of your team's output.

About You

  • 6+ years of product design experience in B2B SaaS or enterprise platforms. You've shipped complex, multi-surface work and you know what good looks like because you've done it yourself.
  • 1–3 years of experience managing product designers. Running 1:1s, giving feedback that changes the work, navigating performance conversations, and helping people grow. You chose management because you're energized by making others better.
  • Strong product thinking and craft judgment. You understand customer problems, business tradeoffs, and how to connect design work to strategy. You don't simplify by removing; you simplify by clarifying.
  • You build trust through how you show up. Consistent, direct, and accountable. You create clarity for your team, resolve friction with partners early, and lead with enough confidence to make decisions and enough humility to change your mind.
  • You care about AI-powered product experiences, both in how your team designs for AI-first workflows and in how they use AI tools to push the quality and speed of their own work.
  • An expert level of English, both spoken and written, is required, as the individual will need to lead platform engineering managers across multiple teams, present technical priorities to executive stakeholders, and align with engineering leaders outside Québec on a daily basis.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with frontline, mobile-first, or offline-capable product design
  • Background in industrial, operations, or maintenance-adjacent domains
  • Experience contributing to or scaling a design system
  • Familiarity with designing for AI-powered workflows and data-rich interfaces

Additional information

Our mission is to keep the physical world running. Factories, fleets, hospitals and campuses stay up because the people who maintain them have tools worth using. That is what we build.

Pay and benefits

Compensation and benefits. Base pay is one part of the package. Depending on the role, compensation may also include commission, an annual bonus and equity. Benefits differ by country.

Belonging. We take pride in a culture where everyone can thrive.

About Maintainx

MaintainX is a leading mobile-first work execution platform for industrial and frontline teams. More than 15,000 customers, including McDonalds, Michaels, Cintas, Redimix, and U.S. LBM, use MaintainX to cut unplanned downtime and run better operations, across 16 million managed assets and 92 million completed work orders.

In August 2026 MaintainX became part of Autodesk, joining Autodesk Operations Solutions the organization unifying Autodesk's operations platform alongside Tandem, FlexSim and Fusion Operations. Autodesk's strategy is to converge design, make and operate into one continuous lifecycle: design an asset, build it, run it, then feed what you learn running it back into the next design. Autodesk had design and make. Operate is the phase that tells you what actually happened, and it is ours.

We're growing fast and hiring the Design leadership to match.

Our users are maintenance technicians, reliability engineers, and operations managers working on factory floors, in processing plants, and across distributed facilities. We're looking for a Product Design Manager to lead a team of product designers who make these complex, high-stakes workflows simple, intuitive, and increasingly AI-powered.

You'll set creative direction across your team's product areas, grow designers at different stages of their careers, and partner deeply with Product and Engineering to ensure design is shaping outcomes, not just shipping screens. In this role, you'll be close to the work, close to the people, and accountable for both.

Read the original posting

From Maintainx's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 14, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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