Product Design Manager - Local Biz (Remote - Canada)

Summary

Yelp is looking for an experienced Product Design Manager to lead the design efforts for one of our Local Business design teams.

This role is pivotal in creating a cohesive and comprehensive experience for business owners. Your efforts will enable them to connect better with customers, engage more with Yelp, grow their businesses, and realize the true value of Yelp. You will lead design projects to craft meaningful end-to-end experiences for Local Biz owners.

Yelp is the best source of knowledge about local businesses. At Yelp, you'll have the opportunity to have a real impact on a product that hundreds of millions of consumers trust to discover and engage with businesses in their community!

If you are passionate about design and eager to make a significant impact on local businesses, we would love to hear from you!

This opportunity requires you to be located in the Eastern time zone of Canada. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

What You'll Do

• Lead and mentor a team of 3-4 product designers, providing regular feedback on design work, career progress, and work satisfaction to set them up for success. Foster an environment that promotes career development through new learning opportunities and defined career milestones.
• Ensure consistent and high-quality creative work from your team. Be accountable for the output and quality of your team’s work, ensuring it has a significant impact on the business.
• Work closely with product managers, engineers, writers, researchers, and other designers to make quick decisions in a highly collaborative environment. Partner with product management, engineering, research, and marketing to ensure a smooth product development process.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and product owners to shape roadmaps and requirements, ensuring teams and projects are properly staffed.
• Advocate for design while promoting a fast-paced environment. Build a positive, inclusive, and accountable culture within the team.
• Represent design alongside product and GTM leaders responsible for the success of Yelp for Local Businesses.
• Recruit and retain top design and research talent, developing a world-class design team.
• Foster and build a fun, diverse, and inclusive culture that reflects Yelp’s values.
  
  

What It Takes To Succeed

• 6+ years of product design experience with a strong portfolio of work and knowledge of native iOS and responsive web patterns, as well as experience managing a team of product designers.
• Experience with shipping consumer- and/or business-facing products, ideally in marketplaces or social media environments.
• Understanding of how to create cohesive working relationships between various orgs (engineering, product, data science, research, etc.).
• Experience in driving strategy & influencing product roadmaps (short & long-term).
• Demonstrated ability to develop, retain, and lead a world-class design team.
• A passion for Yelp and our mission of connecting people to great local businesses.
  
  

What You'll Get

• Compensation range is CAD$176,000-290,000 annually. Depending on your role and level, you may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
• This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in locations within Canada’s Eastern time zones.
• You can find more information about Yelp's five star benefits here!
  
  

Closing

At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values, which include “Playing Well With Others” and “Authenticity.”

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other protected status.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations-recruiting@yelp.com or 1-415-969-8488.

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