Senior Product Design Manager (6-month Term)

Senior Product Design Manager Initial Term: 6-month assignment, with potential for regular full-time conversion based on business need and performance

The Senior Product Design Manager will lead the design of clear, intuitive, and scalable product experiences across CharacterStrong’s digital platform. This role will be responsible for shaping the structure, navigation, workflows, and overall usability of complex product experiences while ensuring design decisions align with product priorities and user needs. This leader will directly oversee UX designers, providing direction, coaching, feedback, and quality oversight while also fully engaging in the work. The position requires deep expertise in information architecture, design systems, interaction design, and UX problem-solving, with the ability to guide both strategy and execution. This coach-player role will bring order to complexity, strengthening experience quality across our digital experiences, and lead the UX team to produce engaging, coherent, and innovative solutions. This position is structured as a contract-to-hire opportunity. The selected candidate will begin in an initial contract engagement for approximately 6 months, with the potential to transition into a regular full-time role based on performance, business need, and mutual fit. CharacterStrong’s Background & Mission CharacterStrong, a FullBloom Company, is a fast-paced, tech

company that makes PreK-12 digital, social-emotional learning curricula and offers professional learning opportunities to support schools with implementation. There’s currently a team of more than 90 full-time employees and over 30 contractors and interns collaborating to bring this work to life. Our mission is to create a more loving world by equipping educators with tools to teach the critical social, emotional, and character skills necessary to foster a more empathetic, connected, and generous world. In less than 10 years, our aim is to have reached 50 million students and over 2 million educators. We were ranked by INC. as the 449th fastest-growing private company in the country. At CharacterStrong, you will have the opportunity to positively impact