Tide - Product Design Manager

• Ensure a Connected App Experience: Collaborate closely with design managers in other domains to align patterns, share insights, and guarantee a seamless, connected journey across the entire app. • Proven Design Leadership: Track record of managing or leading product designers in a fast-paced SaaS, fintech, or scale-up environment. You have demonstrable experience of hiring and developing designers, managing resourcing across your team, and balancing team support with strategic project delivery. • Proven Design Leadership: • Player/Coach Mentality: Strong portfolio showing both strategic product thinking and top-tier UI/UX execution. • Player/Coach Mentality: • Agile & Autonomous: Highly comfortable navigating ambiguity and collaborating with cross-functional peers in an agile setup. • Agile & Autonomous: • Ownership & influence: Experience balancing user and business needs, working closely with senior stakeholders. You know how to manage trade-offs between in-depth work and quick wins or experiments. • Ownership & influence: • End-to-End Design Workflow & AI: Deep experience working across the full, evolving design lifecycle—from research, concepts, prototyping, testing, and handover. You are also excited to pioneer the inclusion of AI in our processes, leveraging it from early design flows right through to pushing code changes. • End-to-End Design Workflow & AI: • Small business knowledge (desirable): You understand personally the challenge we’re trying to solve, in having experience of designing for small businesses or even better, having worked around small businesses yourself. • Small business knowledge (desirable): • WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN: • Our location-specific employee benefits are designed to cater to the unique needs of Tideans: • Competitive Compensation –  Competitive salary and share options. • Time Off – Generous annual leave on top of bank holidays. • Parental Leave – Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to support your family journey. • Sabbatical – Extended unpaid and paid leave options after completing milestone years with Tide. • Access to salary sacrifice benefits – like Nursery (could save up to 47% on fees!) and Cycle to Work discounts • Health Insurance – Comprehensive Private family insurance plan. • Life & Accident Cover – Comprehensive accidental and life insurance protection. • Mental Wellbeing – Access to therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops. • Retirement Planning – Build your retirement fund faster with Tide’s pension scheme on eligible earnings. • Volunteering & Development Days – Paid days annually for volunteering or personal growth. • Learning & Development – Annual budget for books, courses, coaching, and more. • WOO (Work Outside the Office) – Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually. • Laptop Ownership – Keep your old laptop and get a new one when it’s time for a replacement. • Snacks & Meals – Daily breakfast spread with all-day coffee, tea, and juices. • #LI-NZ1 • TIDE IS A PLACE FOR EVERYONE