Product Design Manager

Details

Anthropic is seeking a Product Design Manager to help shape how people experience AI products used by millions of people. The role combines team leadership with hands-on product design execution, including developing patterns native to AI, prototyping rapidly, and designing polished, trustworthy experiences around emerging model capabilities.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership

• Manage and mentor 2–6+ product designers through regular coaching, feedback, and career development support.
• Establish and maintain design quality standards across the team’s work.
• Coordinate cross-team design efforts to ensure consistency and alignment across related product areas.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to define team roadmaps and prioritize design resources.
• Advocate for design across the organization and help shape product strategy.
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and design team culture.
• Help define and evolve design processes, tools, and ways of working.

Design Execution

• Contribute to the strategic direction of Anthropic’s tools through deep user empathy.
• Define feature areas with exceptional attention to detail and polish, identifying opportunities to improve the quality and consistency of broader flows.
• Craft polished and delightful user interfaces that build trust and showcase the capabilities of AI technology.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, AI researchers, and other stakeholders to define product vision, strategy, and roadmaps.
• Rapidly prototype ideas using code and other methods to communicate concepts and build excitement.
• Find creative ways to ship high-quality work in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and resource-constrained startup environment.

Requirements

• Experience managing or leading product designers, including coaching, feedback, and career development.
• Experience designing and shipping digital products end-to-end.
• A portfolio demonstrating user-centered design thinking and polished UI craftsmanship.
• Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools, such as Figma.
• Preferred: 8+ years of product design experience, including 2+ years in a lead or management role.
• Preferred: A proven track record of executing end-to-end on large and complex products, or a series of products, in ambiguous environments.
• Preferred: Experience prototyping with front-end code such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Preferred: Experience using AI tools such as Claude Code as a creative partner in design practice.
• Preferred: Excellent collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to influence without authority.
• Preferred: Passion for crafting scaled, impactful, safe, and beneficial artificial intelligence technologies.
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Benefits

Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and an office space for collaboration.

The role follows a location-based hybrid policy. Staff are currently expected to work from one of Anthropic’s offices at least 25% of the time, although some roles may require more office time. Anthropic sponsors visas and states that it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa for candidates who receive an offer, with assistance from an immigration lawyer.