Senior Manager of Product Design

Job Description:

We're seeking a Senior Manager of Design to shape the future of our product experience and design organization. You’ll work at the intersection of organizational strategy and design leadership, driving initiatives that elevate our product ecosystem and scaling our design practices.
 

You'll be leading Integrated Learning Experiences, including the ILX Player, Assessments, and Labs, which are critical to Pluralsight's mission of empowering learners to build skills effectively. This space supports learners in gaining practical knowledge, tracking their development, and achieving their goals in a structured, integrated way. Your work will directly impact learner retention, engagement, and success, helping Pluralsight maintain its competitive edge in delivering industry-leading technology workforce development solutions.
 

A successful candidate will combine strategic vision with team management skills, balancing high-level leadership with cross-functional

collaboration. You’ll influence product direction while fostering a culture of thought leadership, innovation, and partnership.

Who you’re committed to being:

• You enjoy learning and are open to new ways of doing things.

• You are not afraid to be yourself, experiment, make mistakes and learn from them, ask questions, or voice your concerns.

• When communicating you are self-aware, insightful, and proactive.

• You believe in continuous improvement and request frequent feedback from others.

What you’ll do:

• Drive strategic vision (35%): Define and execute product and design strategies.

• Lead organizational growth (30%): Develop teams, workflows, and practices.

• Foster innovation (20%): Explore new approaches and methodologies.

• Build design culture (15%): Strengthen community and collaboration.

Experience you’ll bring:

• Minimum of 8 years of related or equivalent experience; or 6+ years with an advanced degree.

• Proven track record of strategic leadership.

• Experience managing 4-6 designers, ideally distributed across geographies.

• Strong organizational influence and collaboration skills.

• Familiarity with Lean UX principles and agile product design/development processes.

• Expertise in guiding the end-to-end design process, including research and discovery, ideation and concept development, testing, specification, and collaboration with developers to build and launch features

• Familiarity with modern enterprise SaaS platform design and multi-modal content delivery systems.

• Skilled in fostering resilience, flexibility, and systems thinking within teams.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of product-led growth strategies and experience in matrixed organizations.

• Expertise in creating engaging user experiences for learning, including familiarity with learning science, curriculum development, or educational technology.

• Demonstrated ability to implement applied methods for assuring design quality.

• Experience managing within startup or turnaround contexts.

• Familiarity with creating engaging user experiences for learning, including knowledge of learning science, curriculum development, educational technology, or media platforms.

Travel Requirements:

While Pluralsight operates under a remote and hybrid work model, we believe that in-person connection and collaboration are important. Recurring travel to our HQ in Utah may be required depending on the role and team member location.

Why you’ll love working here:

• We’re a blended workplace, where team memebers work remotely or in a hybrid setup depending on their role and location

• We’re mission driven and guided by our culture pillars

• We have a strong commitment to diversity and belonging

• We cultivate a culture of trust, autonomy, and collaboration

• We’re lifelong learners and champion team member growth and advancement

• We’ve got you covered - team member benefits include competitive compensation packages, medical coverage, unlimited PTO and Summer Fridays, wellness reimbursements, Pluralsight subscription, professional development funds and more.

About us:

We’re Pluralsight, the technology workforce development company that helps teams build better by knowing more and working better together. With Pluralsight, teams can develop critical skills, improve processes and gain data-driven insights.
 

Learning and development are at the core of who we are. We’re out to help every technologist build better, and we’re looking for curious, talented people to help us inspire and empower the tech workforce to achieve their goals. Our culture of autonomy, continuous learning, and collaboration creates an environment for growth and empowers us to drive impact through innovation.

Physical and Mental Requirements:

Work is performed in an office (or home office) environment and requires the ability to operate office equipment and keyboards. Sedentary work. Repetitive work. Ability to perform tasks related to documentation, data analysis, transcription and extensive content analysis. Learn new tasks, remember processes, complete tasks independently, and make timely decisions in the context of a workflow.

EEOC Statement:

Bring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age or protected veteran status. Pluralsight will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please visit the bottom of our website to learn how to request an accommodation.

For more information on Pluralsight’s commitment to building a more diverse and inclusive workforce, please review our most recent Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging report here.

The annual US base salary range for this role is $134,100- $165,600 USD. Pluralsight's pay ranges vary based on work location. Talent Acquisition can share more detail during the hiring process when applicable. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. In addition to the base salary, this role may also be eligible for benefits and bonuses.

Applications must be submitted within 90 days after the initial posting date to be considered.

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