Product Design Manager (DesignOps, Design System), (100% remote-friendly within Spain)

As a Product Design Manager, you will play a key role in driving operational excellence and fostering collaboration across our design teams. Your primary focus will be managing and evolving Watson, our design system, to deliver consistency, scalability, and flexibility across our products. By enabling seamless design operations, you will empower teams to create outstanding, user-centered solutions.

In this role, you will lead a team of three talented designers, guiding their growth while ensuring their work aligns with our platform’s vision and standards. Additionally, you will remain hands-on—taking ownership of critical projects, contributing directly in Figma, and setting an example for delivering exceptional design outcomes.

This position is ideal for someone who thrives on balancing big-picture strategy with practical execution, ensuring both the design system and the teams behind it operate at their best.

We are looking for a Product Design Manager – Ops to:

• Own and evolve Watson, our design system: Ensure it is scalable, accessible, and flexible for all product teams, addressing emerging needs and maintaining quality.
• Lead and manage a team of three product designers, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to foster growth and high-quality outputs.
• Oversee project management, ensuring the design system stays on track: decide sprint priorities, assign tasks, and set deadlines.
• Drive operational excellence in design practices, optimizing design team workflows and ensuring the delivery of consistent, high-quality work. Also, improving, owning, and gatekeeping our Figma structure and files to make sure we are as efficient as possible.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and other stakeholders to align on the platform’s design strategy and execution.
• Facilitate adoption and education of the design system by creating resources and providing training to improve understanding and usage across teams, driving its adoption.
• Advocate for design quality and operational scalability, striking the right balance between speed and sustainable design practices.
• Ensure the seamless integration of design system components into tools like Figma, maintaining thorough documentation to ensure usability and accuracy.

What you should have:

• A portfolio showcasing design systems you have created or significantly contributed to.
• Proven experience in leading, mentoring, and managing a small team of designers, fostering collaboration and professional growth.
• Deep expertise with Figma, component libraries, and other design system management tools.
• A strategic mindset focused on design scalability, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and bridging the gap between design, product, and engineering.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to prioritize and execute multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• A solid understanding of systems thinking, user-centered design principles, and accessibility standards.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design decisions and operational strategies to stakeholders.
• Familiarity with data-informed decision-making, including metrics to measure the effectiveness of design operations and systems.
• 6+ years of experience in interaction design. Bonus: Experience in front-end development.

Let’s talk money

• A salary adequate to your experience and skills between 60,000 and 80,000 euros. The range is broad so that we can accommodate our roles for all levels of experience, but we will show you the career ladder to explain where we see your skills and impact within the company". Your salary will be, now and always, 100% transparent to you;

• Flexible remuneration and benefits system via Flexoh, which includes: restaurant card, transportation card, kindergarten, and training tax savings;

• Share options plan after 6 months of working with us.

True flexibility and work-life balance

• Remote or hybrid work model with our hub in Barcelona;

• Flexible working hours;

• Summer intensive schedule during July and August (work 7 hours, finish earlier);

• 23 paid holidays, with exchangeable local bank holidays;

• Additional paid holiday on your birthday or work anniversary (you choose what you want to celebrate).

Health comes first 

• Private healthcare plan with Adeslas for you and subsidized for your family (medical and dental);

• Access to hundreds of gyms for a symbolic fee in partnership for you and your family. 

• Access to iFeel, a technological platform for mental wellness offering online psychological support and counseling. 

Keep growing with us

• Free English and Spanish classes.

We promote and embrace equal opportunities in our hiring process, and also every day at work. When you apply for our roles you receive equal treatment regardless of age, disabilities, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or parental status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or any other dimension of human difference.  If you require additional support in your recruitment process, we kindly encourage you to let us know. Behind those words you’re reading, there’s a person (hi!) who already helped a candidate by adapting the interviews, and now we’re lucky to have this person with us. So, even if you’ve never asked for it before, may this serve as a sign that, now, you can do so. We can only truly be equal if we adapt to each other.

“We believe all humans, in all their beautiful diversity, should have equal rights, dignity and respect. Period.” Mariusz Gralewski,  CEO