# Senior Manager, Product Design - Design Platform at Upstart

- Company: Upstart
- What the company does: Explore lending solutions through Upstart, including personal loans, debt consolidation, short-term relief, Cash Line, and HELOC. Check your rate today! Backed by Khosla, Kleiner Perkins and NEA.
- Company website: https://www.upstart.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States | Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://careers.upstart.com/jobs?gh_jid=8142745
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/upstart-senior-manager-product-design-design-platform/

## About the role

As Senior Manager on the Design Platform team, you will lead two senior designers and spend most of your time building alongside them: roughly 60% hands-on design and 40% people management. This is a role for someone who wants to stay close to the craft rather than step away from it. You will set the direction for Upstart's design system, shaping its component architecture, token strategy, and visual language.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of product design experience, including 2+ years of direct people management experience
- Experience building or substantially scaling a design system adopted across multiple product teams
- Experience defining design patterns or platform strategy across both web and native mobile experiences
- Experience owning design systems work across components, tokens, documentation, governance, and visual design direction
- Experience partnering directly with engineering on design system implementation, including component APIs and token architecture

Tags: Product Department