Product Design Manager

Mirage is an AI video company building creative tools for video, motion, and sound.

New York City, United States
About Mirage

Mirage develops AI-native video-creation products, including the Captions app and Tesseract runtime, alongside foundation models for expressive video generation.

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About the Role

You will lead and grow the Product Design team, set its vision and quality bar, and shape product strategy with executive, Product, and Engineering partners. You will guide high-impact initiatives from exploration through launch, establish effective design processes, and translate emerging AI capabilities into intuitive experiences across text, image, audio, motion, and video.

Requirements

  • Experience building, managing, and developing high-performing product design teams
  • Experience designing and shipping complex consumer products across mobile and desktop
  • Strong product judgment and design taste
  • Ability to work across strategy, people leadership, and detailed product critique
  • Ability to create clarity and make decisions in ambiguous environments
  • Strong communication skills and ability to explain design rationale and align stakeholders
  • Portfolio demonstrating systems thinking, craft, and impact on shipped products

Responsibilities

  • Set the vision, strategy, and quality bar for Product Design
  • Lead, mentor, and develop product designers
  • Build the design team, its structure, capabilities, and culture
  • Partner with executive, Product, and Engineering teams on product vision, strategy, and roadmap
  • Guide complex product initiatives from exploration through launch
  • Establish design critique, craft, user-centered decision-making, and delivery processes
  • Translate emerging AI capabilities into intuitive interaction models and product experiences

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 401K with employer match
  • Commuter benefits
  • Catered lunch multiple days per week
  • Dinner stipend for late work
  • Grubhub subscription
  • Health and wellness perks
  • Multiple team offsites per year and monthly team events
  • Generous PTO policy