Manager, Product Design

Job description

The Philadelphia Inquirer is looking for a Manager, Product Design to lead a team of designers creating thoughtful, reader-centered experiences across Inquirer.com, our mobile apps, newsletters, and emerging platforms. This is a hands-on, coaching-focused role. You’ll help designers do their best work through clear feedback, strong project guidance, and close partnership with product and engineering. You’ll set a high bar for quality and process, and you may jump in directly on important projects when needed. Reporting to the VP, Product, you’ll work closely with product management, user research, engineering, newsroom leadership, sales, and consumer marketing to improve subscriber growth, engagement, and retention. What You’ll Do: - Lead, coach, and support a team of product designers through regular feedback, career development, and day-to-day guidance - Provide detailed design feedback to improve interaction design, information architecture, accessibility, and visual quality - Oversee the team’s projects to ensure work is well scoped, thoughtfully executed, and aligned with reader and business needs - Help designers move work from discovery through delivery, including framing pr...