Summary

We are looking for a Design Manager to lead our Growth + Activations design team. As the Design leader of one of our core teams, you'll be primarily focused on deepening our customers engagement with all Robinhood has to offer. You'll have the opportunity to craft strategies that redefine the working model for how this team operates. You'll manage a team of hardworking product designers across many products including Growth, Trust & Safety and Gold - providing design direction, giving career mentorship, and facilitating cross-functional partnerships across our product and engineering teams. You will propagate a strong design practice, influence product strategy, and impact our product execution and quality. Ultimately, you will enable your team to complete outstanding work.

As a qualified candidate, you have both an incredible eye for detail and an ability to think big, break new ground, and innovate. You are a strong champion for craft and care deeply about people. You have experience leading teams designing for mobile (native apps and mobile web), desktop web, and email, and have a hardworking body of work that has clearly accelerated business priorities.

The role is located in the office location(s) listed on this job description which will align with our in-office working environment. Please connect with your recruiter for more information regarding our in-office philosophy and expectations.

What You Will Do

• Leading, mentoring, and inspiring members of your team, providing direction and pushing the quality of the design work
• Balance high-quality craft and crisp execution with agility and speed to learning.
• Influencing product strategy and design execution across efforts.
• Help to generate and test creative ideas quickly, and see big impact in the details
• Leading and representing your team effectively - substantiating the work and the decisions behind them, advocating for user-centered design
• Building cross-functional relationships and advocating for the needs of the Robinhood design team
• Accelerating team efficiency by improving processes, organization structure, and workflows with the design team and cross functional teams

What You Bring

• Excellent portfolio that demonstrates love and care for their craft
• Strong product sensibility
• Ability to help set your team up for success through open communication, collaboration, and mentorship, creating a happy and healthy creative culture, building up your team by providing room to create and giving healthy feedback.
• Big Picture thinking
• A track record of leading design teams through successful product launches across iOS, Android, and mobile
• Deep knowledge and applied experience in design (layout, typography, color) and a solid foundation in UX design heuristics
• Experience recruiting, hiring, and retaining multi-disciplinary design teams
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Superb attention to detail
• Ability to communicate on an ego-free, highly energetic, and cross-functional team
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment

What We Offer

• Market competitive and pay equity-focused compensation structure
• 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
• Annual lifestyle wallet for personal wellness, learning and development, and more!
• Lifetime maximum benefit for family forming and fertility benefits
• Dedicated mental health support for employees and eligible dependents
• Generous time away including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!
• Lively office environment with catered meals, fully stocked kitchens, and geo-specific commuter benefits

Base pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. The expected salary range for this role is based on the location where the work will be performed and is aligned to one of 3 compensation zones. This role is also eligible to participate in a Robinhood bonus plan and Robinhoods equity plan. For other locations not listed, compensation can be discussed with your recruiter during the interview process.

Zone 1 (Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; Bellevue, WA; Washington, DC)

$187,000$ - 220,000 USD

Zone 2 (Denver, CO; Westlake, TX; Chicago, IL)

$164,900 - $194,000 USD

Zone 3 (Lake Mary, FL)

$146,200 - $172,000 USD

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Hiring
• Leadership
• Product Design
• Team Collaboration
• UX/UI Design
• Attention to Detail