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Product Design Manager

Meta
Menlo Park, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/27/2026 CLOSED ON 6/24/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Design Manager position at Meta?

Meta is seeking a Product Design Manager to lead a team of product designers working across one or more of Meta's core product areas. In this role, you will set design direction, develop design talent, and partner with cross-functional leaders to shape product strategy and deliver experiences that serve billions of people. You will drive design quality and operational excellence across your team while championing the responsible integration of AI into design workflows and processes.

Product Design Manager Responsibilities:

  • Lead and develop a team of product designers, providing coaching, career guidance, and actionable feedback to help individuals grow and deliver high-impact work
  • Drive design strategy and vision across multiple large-scale product initiatives, translating organizational goals into focused design plans with clear milestones and measurable outcomes
  • Partner with product management, engineering, data science, and research leaders to define product direction and align design work to business and user needs
  • Establish and uphold a high bar for design craft and quality across the team, setting benchmarks and mentoring designers to deliver at scale
  • Champion the adoption of AI tools within design workflows, modeling effective and responsible AI use and building AI fluency across the team
  • Proactively identify integration opportunities across related product surfaces, resolving cross-team design challenges to improve the coherence of the overall product system
  • Recruit high-potential designers and future design leaders, building a team known for inspiring work and a strong collaborative culture
  • Drive design organization-wide initiatives that materially improve the caliber, efficiency, or satisfaction of the broader design team
  • Communicate design strategy and decisions clearly to executives and cross-functional stakeholders, anticipating risks and enabling timely, well-informed decisions
  • Foster a team culture of trust, psychological safety, and continuous improvement, ensuring individuals feel empowered to raise concerns and take smart risks

Minimum Qualifications:

  • 8 years of experience in product design, with a portfolio demonstrating high-quality, shipped consumer or enterprise product work
  • 4 years of experience managing product designers, including coaching, performance management, and career development
  • Experience leading design strategy and execution across multiple large-scale, cross-functional product initiatives simultaneously
  • Experience influencing long-term product vision and roadmap in partnership with product management and engineering leadership
  • Experience recruiting and developing design talent, including identifying high-potential designers and managing performance across a team

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience integrating AI-powered design tools into team workflows and establishing responsible practices for AI use in the design process
  • Experience driving design systems adoption or design tooling improvements that increased team efficiency or quality at scale
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
  • Experience working on products with significant cross-platform or cross-regional complexity, requiring alignment across multiple organizations
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@meta.com.

$201,000/year to $278,000/year bonus equity benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

Salary : $201,000 - $278,000

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