Saatchi & Saatchi

Senior Manager, Product Design

Saatchi & Saatchi$102K — $202K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Design, Psychology, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or related field.
  • 10+ years of professional experience in Product Design / User Experience at a senior contributor level.
  • Experience in Lean, Agile, or Scrum environments across cross-functional product teams.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing design leadership in complex, data-intensive platforms like advertising technology or finance.
  • Ability to exercise independent judgment on complex problems with no obvious solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the design approach for complex product initiatives requiring expert judgment.
  • Select and adapt UX methods and techniques appropriate to problems and organization context.
  • Leverage AI tools for rapid ideation, concept exploration, and idea validation in design processes.
  • Shape design principles in alignment with multi-year product vision, accounting for AI's impact on user expectations.
  • Coordinate cross-functional networks to align on experience goals and drive complex work forward.
  • Set standards for coherent platform-minded design across multiple teams and products.
  • Act as a thought partner for the design organization to anticipate emerging user needs and connect UX thinking to business outcomes.

Benefits

  • Flexible time off and 15 paid holidays.
  • Paid sick time.
  • Parental leave and childcare assistance.
  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision.
  • 401(k) with company contributions and tuition assistance.
Full Job Description
Overview

The Senior Manager (Staff) Product Designer will drive the design of innovative, user-centered experiences across Epsilon's global advertising and marketing technology platforms. Operating with a high degree of autonomy and broad organizational influence, you'll define the approach to the most significant and complex design challenges, navigating deep ambiguity, shaping product direction, and delivering solutions that hold up across a shared platform used by many teams. You bring a modern design sensibility that embraces AI as a tool for accelerating ideation and validation, while applying the rigor and systems thinking required at scale. You'll work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and data teams as a senior design voice, setting a high bar for quality, influencing how work gets done across teams, and helping the organization think more clearly about experience. This role is ideal for a deeply experienced designer who leads through expertise, builds lasting cross-functional partnerships, and knows how to drive alignment without relying on formal authority.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the design approach for the highest-impact, most complex product initiatives, problems where the path forward requires evaluation of intangibles and independent expert judgment
  • Apply seasoned judgment in selecting and adapting UX methods and techniques: wireframes, sitemaps, user flows, scenarios, data diagrams, and prototypes, matching approach to problem type and organizational context
  • Leverage AI tools to accelerate early-stage ideation, rapid concept exploration, and idea validation, while synthesizing qualitative and quantitative signals across ambiguous situations into clear, well-reasoned design direction
  • Shape and evolve design principles and patterns in alignment with multi-year product vision, including how AI capabilities are changing user expectations and interaction models
  • Create and maintain formal cross-functional networks, coordinating across product, engineering, data science, legal, and other design teams to align on experience goals and drive complex work forward
  • Set the standard for platform-minded design, ensuring solutions are coherent, extensible, and consistent with a shared design system across multiple teams and product areas
  • Serve as a quality anchor and thought partner for the broader design organization, anticipating emerging user needs and organizational design challenges before they become problems, and connecting long-horizon UX thinking to business outcomes

Qualifications

Who You Are:
  • Bachelor's degree in Design, Psychology, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or related field with:
  • 10+ years of professional experience in Product Design / User Experience, with a track record of operating at a senior individual contributor level
  • Experience delivering within Lean, Agile, or Scrum environments across large, complex, cross-functional product organizations
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating design leadership on complex, data-intensive platforms (advertising technology, finance, or similar)
  • Demonstrated ability to exercise independent judgment on significant, uniquely difficult problems where no obvious playbook exists
  • Proven ability to build and coordinate formal cross-functional networks to drive alignment and move work forward

Why you might stand out from other talent:
  • Skilled in translating complex data and AI-driven experiences into intuitive, user-friendly interfaces at platform scale
  • Familiar with identity resolution and designing for trust, transparency, and compliance
  • Actively uses AI tools for generative building, rapid prototyping assistants, and LLM-aided research synthesis. This helps you move faster in early phases while maintaining rigor to validate and stress-test outputs before committing to a direction.
  • Understands the difference between using AI to accelerate the work and using it to bypass it
  • Brings intentionality and a clear point of view to when and how AI fits into the design process
  • Comfortable working across product, data science, and engineering, to balance innovation with feasibility
  • Deep understanding of enterprise user needs in marketing and analytics contexts
  • Experience crafting within dedication marketing platforms such as dedication programs based on customer data, points and rewards systems, or customer retention tools, with an understanding of how engagement mechanics and member lifecycle stages build UX decisions
  • Track record of navigating platform consolidations, org shifts, and large-scale product transformation as a senior individual practitioner and informal design leader


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Additional Information

Compensation Range: USD $102,100.00 - USD $202,900.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 7/29/2026.

About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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