Manager, Product Design | Relocation Offered

Overview

Manager, Product Design – Auckland, New Zealand

Lightspeed

We’re looking for a Product Design Manager in Auckland to lead a talented team working on complex challenges and delivering real impact. Our Inventory Management teams help retailers manage stock, uncover revenue opportunities, and gain insights. You'll support your team’s growth, drive execution, improve design processes, and collaborate with leadership on key initiatives.

Our designers are all about making the buying experience smoother, using design systems to keep things simple and scalable. As Product Design Manager, you’ll play a key role in supporting your team’s growth and delivering top-notch user experiences across our Retail products, while also collaborating closely with Product and Engineering to help shape how we build and design.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Turn complex business goals into clear, actionable design work—often spotting problems before they pop up. You’ll apply strategic thinking to identify the right problems to tackle and the best ways to solve them, while exploring AI and new tech to keep our approach fresh and forward-thinking
• Lead design strategies that are backed by real user insights—both from data and research. Working closely with product managers, you’ll help define the right problems and make sure user needs are prioritised
• Take the lead on evolving our design systems to stay relevant and easy to use. Whether you're building prototypes or helping others do the same, you’ll make sure ideas are clearly communicated and grounded in best practices
• Support your team’s growth through mentoring and clear development paths, while building a positive, high-performing culture. You'll keep projects moving, manage team priorities, and put the right processes in place to help everyone do their best work together

Qualifications

What We Offer

You’ll Enjoy

Plus benefits designed to keep you happy, healthy and fulfilled. … and enjoy a range of benefits that’ll keep you happy, healthy and (not) hungry :

Additional details

Do you need additional support during an interview? At Lightspeed, we acknowledge that we face the unique challenge of engaging with and hiring diverse talent from marginalised communities with different personal or cultural norms. Lightspeed offers Supported Interviews, allowing you to bring whānau or a support person along with you during any Lightspeed interview (excluding initial recruiter phone call) to help you display your full range of strengths.

To all recruitment agencies : Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Where to from here? Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial : we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.

Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.

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