Senior Design Manager Job at GLG in New York

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We’re looking for a seasonedDesign Manager to help lead and scale the Product Design function at GLG. This is aplayer-coach role, guiding a team of Senior UX Designers working across complex, business-critical platforms, while contributing directly to high-impact design work.

You’ll be acore operational partnerto the Head of Design, ensuring delivery excellence, team health, and executional clarity across the organization. This role is ideal for a design leader who can flex between critique and craft, unblock teams, and support great designers in doing the best work of their careers.

What You’ll Do

Lead theday-to-day operationsof the design team, ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery across multiple workstreams.

Coach and mentor a team of senior UX designers, providingfeedback, growth support, and performance guidance.

Partner closely withProduct and Engineeringto drive execution at the squad level, ensuring alignment, feasibility, and quality.

Behands-onwhen needed, contributing to critical design efforts, facilitating working sessions, and helping solve high-stakes UX challenges (30–40% IC time expected).

Facilitate design rituals, critiques, standups, async reviews that raise team quality, velocity, and cohesion.

Collaborate ondesign system adoption and governance, ensuring consistency and scale across experiences.

Act as thefirst line point of escalationfor delivery blockers, triad alignment issues, or UX quality risks.

Partner with the Head of Design onteam structure, hiring signals, and design maturity growth.

What We’re Looking For

10+ years of UX / Product Design experience, including2+ years leading designers(officially or unofficially)

Experience operating inmulti-stream product environmentsor B2B / enterprise UX teams

Strong command ofFigma, design systems, interaction design, and design for web and mobile platforms

Excellent communicator with the ability to guide teams through ambiguity and connect design to product outcomes

Deep understanding of user-centered design, UX principles, and accessibility best practices

Track record of unblocking teams, improving design output, and fostering growth in others

Thrives in fast-moving, cross-functional environments and knows how to balance vision with iteration

Experience with Agile, Lean UX, or continuous discovery is a plus

A portfolio and team leadership story that reflects your impact ondesign quality, clarity, and team health

What We Offer

Benefits : All U.S. GLGers also have access to benefits such as :

Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your first day of employment

Flexible paid time off. No pre-determined limits on vacation time, plus 10 company holidays

401(k) and Roth 401(k) plans with an employer match (subject to annual limits & vesting)

Tuition reimbursement program for eligible courses including language skills courses

Paid parental leave, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement

Free wellbeing support with the Calm app, Maven and EAP, and free long-term therapy & counselling assistance through Pathways

Other work perks and benefits available based on final job location

Compensation : GLG is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation is based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. Certain roles may also be eligible for incentive compensation.

The anticipated hiring base salary range for this role is :

$146,600—$180,000 USD

About GLG / Gerson Lehrman Group

GLG is the world’s insight network. Our clients rely on GLG’s global team to connect with powerful insight across fields from our network of approximately 1 million experts (and the hundreds of new experts we recruit every day).

We serve thousands of the world’s best businesses, from Fortune 500 corporations to leading technology companies to professional services firms and financial institutions. We connect our clients to the world’s largest and most varied source of first-hand expertise, including executives, scientists, academics, former public-sector leaders, and the foremost subject matter specialists.

GLG’s industry-leading compliance framework allows clients to learn in a structured, auditable, and transparent way, consistent with their own internal compliance obligations and the highest professional ethical standards. Our compliance standards are a major competitive differentiator and key component of the company’s culture.

To learn more, visit www.GLGinsights.com.

Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. (“GLG”) is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, religion, color, marital status, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

Seniority level Seniority level Not Applicable

Employment type Employment type Full-time

Job function Job function Design, Art / Creative, and Information Technology

Industries Financial Services, Information Services, and IT Services and IT Consulting

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