About the Role
We are seeking a Sr. Design Manager to lead our Base UI/UX Design System and team. As a Design Manager, we tackle interaction and service design challenges which ignites opportunity and changes the way the world moves for users around the world of all backgrounds and abilities.
The Base Design System team designs and builds technologies to build the business at scale with a high quality bar, bringing all our Uber experiences together, under a single, unified framework. Your role will involve setting design standards, optimizing workflows, and ensuring the seamless integration of our design system into our products. This is an exciting opportunity for a creative, strategic and craft design leader who can help drive design excellence at Uber!
What You Will Do
– Drive the vision and execution of a design system of visual style, UI components, and its best practices across Uber’s products and services.
– Directly manage a team of visual, interaction, systems and engineering designers.
– Identify, prioritize and define design system needs and future opportunities.
– Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create high-quality, elegant, scalable design solutions across our products, broad range of users and business needs.
Collaborate, plan and execute with engineering leaders towards and around growing adoption of the Base design system in production.
Basic Qualifications
– 8+ years of design leadership experience.
Preferred Qualifications
– Proficiency with the latest tools to design & build and a strong desire to learn new ones.
– Experience building products for Android, iOS, and web.
– Experience designing and building a Design System at scale.
– An understanding of balancing quality and velocity at scale.
– Ability to structure documentation and communication systems for a range of audiences.
– Prioritize projects concurrently in a fast paced environment.
– Strong understanding and application of user-centered design methods and principles.
– Ability to strongly articulate your team’s work and rationale to your peers and cross-functional team.
– A degree in Design, or related fields is preferred.
– A portfolio showing your high quality, thoughtful UI, UX and Systems work.
For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is $220,000 per year – $244,000 per year.
You will be eligible to participate in Uber’s bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link [https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits](https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits).
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing [this form](https://forms.gle/aDWTk9k6xtMU25Y5A).
Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber’s cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.