Senior Manager – Product Design at Beacon Power Services

How You'll Make an Impact

• We are seeking a visionary and systems-oriented Senior Manager – Product Design to establish and scale design as a strategic capability across our product portfolio. This role will define and drive the long-term design vision across our software platforms.
• You will shape the evolution of our design language, user experience strategy, and research practice, ensuring our products meet the standards of leading global software companies while supporting mission-critical infrastructure environments.
• You will institutionalize user-centered design principles, elevate interaction and visual quality, and build scalable design systems that deliver clarity, usability, and consistency across complex, data-intensive product ecosystems.

What You'll Do
Design Vision & Strategy:

• Define and articulate a multi-year product design strategy
• Embed design thinking into strategic planning and product roadmap development
• Champion user-centered decision-making at leadership level

Enterprise UX & Systems Design:

• Lead the design of complex and data-intensive systems
• Translate highly technical workflows into intuitive, efficient, and scalable user experiences
• Define and govern accessibility, inclusivity, and usability standards
• Own and evolve an enterprise-grade design system ensuring consistency across products and interfaces
• Establish governance, documentation, and reusable component standards
• Partner closely with the Engineering team to ensure high design-to-code fidelity

Research, Metrics & Cross-Functional Impact:

• Institutionalize structured research practices, including usability testing, field studies, and behavioral analytics
• Define and track UX performance metrics and measurable success indicators
• Drive data-informed iteration and continuous product experience optimization
• Create strong feedback loops between Product Management, Engineering, and Commercial teams
• Ensure design decisions balance user value, commercial objectives, and operational constraints

Managerial Responsibilities:

• Define and own the annual operating plan for the function, including workforce and financial planning
• Manage and optimize departmental budgets
• Make strategic resource allocation decisions
• Build, scale, and structure teams to support long-term capability development
• Establish performance frameworks, succession planning, and leadership development pathways
• Ensure governance, risk management, and operational maturity across the function
• Drive the creation of standardized, scalable systems that enable consistent execution across regions

What We're Looking For
Professional & Technical Strengths:

• Product design experience within SaaS, enterprise software, or complex technology environments
• Demonstrated experience defining and scaling enterprise-grade design systems across multiple products
• Strong portfolio reflecting systems thinking, complex workflow design, and large-scale platform architecture
• Experience designing data-intensive dashboards, operational tools, or mission-critical enterprise platforms
• Deep expertise in UX research methodologies and the ability to institutionalize research practices across teams
• Proven ability to connect design strategy to measurable business outcomes (adoption, retention, revenue growth)

Leadership & Interpersonal Strengths:

• Ability to collaborate with multicultural and geographically distributed teams
• High degree of autonomy and accountability (we operate within a hybrid work environment)
• Ability to collaborate with multicultural and geographically distributed teams
• High degree of autonomy and accountability (we operate within a hybrid work environment)
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and align cross-functional leadership around a shared product vision
• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to translate user experience investments into business value
• Strategic thinker capable of navigating ambiguity and driving clarity across complex product ecosystems
• High ownership mindset with accountability for long-term design quality and organizational maturity
• Executive-level communication skills, comfortable presenting to leadership and external stakeholders

Nice to Have:

• Experience in infrastructure, energy, and fintech industries
• Experience working in emerging markets
• Exposure to AI-driven or data-driven product environments
• Proficiency in French