Senior Manager, Product Design

About Harvest

Harvest is an industry-leading software company building tools that help businesses thrive. We believe companies succeed by using their time intentionally, and our products support our customers by helping them plan, track, and understand their teams’ time.

Harvest was created in 2006 by two small business owners who were looking for a way to manage and grow their web design agency in New York City. What started as a solution for their own company has since evolved into a business intelligence platform embraced by thousands of professional services firms across the world who share the same drive to grow thriving, sustainable businesses.

Harvest is an independent, profitable company. We don’t have investors, shareholders, or a board of directors. Instead, our main drive is to serve the needs of our customers, so we put them at the forefront of every decision we make.

All of this is made possible by the incredible Harvest team. Our small but mighty workforce sits across 9 countries and 11 time zones, resulting in a rich working environment where diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and opinions inform every discussion and decision. We value self-discipline, scrappiness and a genuine curiosity to learn from one another.  Motivated by excellence and collaboration, our people are the engine that fuels our success.

Role Overview

Harvest’s success has been driven by the product’s ease of use. As we expand and deepen the product offering, we’re looking for an individual to lead product design at the company to ensure that design and usability continue to be a core strength.

This role will report to the VP of Product and manage the three product designers on the team. We’re looking for someone with a strong background in leading high performing product design teams and building best-in-class product experiences. This will be a primarily leadership and management role, though there will be opportunities to contribute hands-on product design work initially as we continue to grow the team. 

The product design team is a creative, kind, and learning-focused group that trusts and works closely with our product management, engineering, insights, support, and marketing teams to craft product experiences that help our customers build their businesses. 

What you’ll do

• Manage and coach the product design team, providing regular feedback on design work and development opportunities
• Lead product design hiring as we continue to grow the team
• Drive product design strategy, ensuring design direction is aligned with product vision and strategy
• Improve product design processes around cross-team collaboration, research, and design feedback
• Increase design capacity in the near-term through hands-on design contribution 
• Manage and improve our design system and how it’s reflected in the product

What you’ll bring

• 8+ years of experience in product design, with at least 3 years experience managing and hiring designers
• Experience building products across web and mobile with multiple end user personas, preferably in B2B SaaS 
• Strong skill set across research, user experience, and UI design
• Pragmatism in balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints
• Best practices for operating in an agile and lean environment
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Benefits

At Harvest, our compensation consists of three main components:

• A competitive base pay: The salary for this role is $215,000 USD. We aim to pay at the top of the market (informed by third-party data) for all roles
• Individual and company performance bonus plans: We believe in rewarding performance, and Harvesters are eligible to receive an individual and company performance bonus
• Competitive benefits, including*: 
• 15 days of vacation in your first year, plus company holidays and a week off for winter break; and you’ll get an additional two days per year until you reach 20 days
• 100% coverage of health insurance premiums across our medical, dental, and vision plan offerings for you, your spouse, and your dependents
• A yearly budget for your professional learning and development goals
• A 401k plan with a 6% company match after three months with the company
• 16 weeks of paid family leave to all new parents with the option to use it all at once or throughout the baby’s first year, as well as a virtual platform providing support across fertility, pregnancy, adoption, and through your first year of parenting
• A charitable giving matching program to support your contributions to your favorite charitable organizations
• And much more

* Some of the benefits described are only available to US-based Harvesters. Benefits information for non-US-based Harvesters will be provided to individuals who interview for those roles.

To apply 

Please submit your resume and an optional cover letter. 

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request accommodation as part of the application or recruiting process, please don’t hesitate to contact us at [email protected].