Senior Manager, Product Design

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 Additional Information When You Join Us, We’ll Create Something EPIC Together Epsilon is a global data, technology and services company that powers the marketing and advertising ecosystem. For decades, we’ve provided marketers from the world’s leading brands the data, technology and services they need to engage consumers with 1 View, 1 Vision and 1 Voice. 1 View of their universe of potential buyers. 1 Vision for engaging each individual. And 1 Voice to harmonize engagement across paid, owned and earned channels. Epsilon’s comprehensive portfolio of capabilities across our suite of digital media, messaging and loyalty solutions bridge the divide between marketing and advertising technology. We process 400+ billion consumer actions each day using advanced AI and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work of every employee, Epsilon has been consistently recognized as industry-leading by Forrester, Adweek and the MRC. Epsilon is a global company with more than 9,000 employees around the world. Our pillars aren't just words. They're how we show up every day. People centricity: We focus on employee well-being in an environment where colleagues truly care about each other. Collaboration: We work together, support one another, and collectively achieve goals. Growth: There are endless opportunities for growth through learning, development and career advancement. Innovation: We drive progress through cutting-edge solutions and forward-thinking approaches. Flexibility: We’ve created a balance between work and personal life, and we encourage adaptability to solve problems creatively. Our values guide us to create value for our clients, our people and consumers. Act with integrity Work together to win together Innovate with purpose Respect all voices Empower with accountability These pillars and values are our foundation—shaping our culture, guiding our decisions, and uniting us in common purpose. Because You Matter As an Epsilon employee, you deserve perks and benefits that put you, your family and your finances first. Our benefits encompass a wide range of offerings, including but not limited to the following: Time to Recharge: Flexible time off (FTO), 15 paid holidays Time to Recover: Paid sick time Family Well-Being: Parental/new child leave, childcare & elder care assistance, adoption assistance Extra Perks: Comprehensive health coverage, 401(k), tuition assistance, commuter benefits, professional development, employee recognition, charitable donation matching, health coaching and counseling Epsilon benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms. Epsilon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Epsilon’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on actual or perceived race, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Epsilon also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. Epsilon will provide accommodations to applicants needing accommodations to complete the application process. Please reach out to View email address on click.appcast.io to request an accommodation. For San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles Areas: Epsilon will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and San Francisco Police Code Sections 4901-4919, commonly referred to as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Applicants with criminal histories are welcome to apply.

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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 9/4/2026. #J-18808-Ljbffr Epsilon