Manager, Product Design

About CLEAR - Corporate CLEAR is the security identity company making experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With over 41 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR’s identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether you are in the airport, at the stadium, or on your phone, CLEAR connects you to the things that make you, you. CLEAR+ helps you speed through airport security, while CLEAR1 is our enterprise product that powers trusted identity solutions for businesses across healthcare, travel, and financial services. Headquartered in New York City with offices in Austin, TX and Washington D.C., CLEAR’s mission is to strengthen security and create frictionless experiences.

CLEAR - Corporate

You are You.

Biometric TechnologyIdentityCustomer ExperienceDigital IdentityAge Verificationand Digital Trust

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clearme.com

1,001-5,000 employees

Consumer Services

New York, NY

2010

Public Company

92k LinkedIn followers

Raised $135M

• Design hands-on: Own key high-impact initiatives end-to-end—from discovery and conceptual development through prototyping, detailed execution, and launch—setting the benchmark for design craft
• Lead and develop your team: Mentor Product Designers through clear strategic direction, constructive critique, and targeted growth opportunities, empowering them to drive project ownership
• Oversee design execution: Provide actionable guidance across the product development lifecycle to ensure high standards of usability, craft, and visual consistency
• Balance leadership and execution: Strategically allocate your time between direct design contributions and team oversight based on evolving business priorities
• Partner cross-functionally: Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to translate user needs and core business objectives into intuitive, high-quality digital experiences
• Champion user advocacy: Leverage user insights, analytics, and continuous experimentation to eliminate friction and strengthen overall product experience
• Elevate operational excellence: Refine design systems and cross-functional workflows to enhance team velocity, alignment, and product coherence across CLEAR
• Measurable improvements in the journeys your team supports, such as completion rates, drop-off, and time to verify
• High-impact initiatives you design directly that set the bar for craft
• Quality, usability, and consistency of the experiences your team delivers
• Growth, engagement, and ownership of the designers on your team
• Speed and effectiveness of cross-functional work from discovery through launch
• Experience: 8+ years in product design, including 2+ years managing or leading designers
• Being a player coach: A track record of leading and developing Product Designers while still doing hands-on design work, with a strong point of view on product design and craft
• Hands-on craft: A portfolio that shows high-quality digital experiences you designed yourself, and how you used customer insight to solve complex product problems
• Team leadership: Experience giving clear, actionable design feedback and creating an environment where designers do their best work and grow in ownership
• Cross-functional partnership: Skill in partnering with Product and Engineering to navigate ambiguity, prioritize opportunities, and take products from concept to launch
• Sound judgment: The ability to balance customer needs, business outcomes, technical constraints, privacy, and security while moving quickly in a fast-paced environment
• Flexible focus: Comfort switching between your own design work and guiding your team's projects, and judgment about where your time has the most impact
• At CLEAR, we help YOU move forward - because when you’re at your best, we’re at our best. You’ll work with talented team members motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier. Our offices are bright and energetic with an open concept and plenty of conference rooms and casual co-working spaces. We also offer catered lunches every day and have fully stocked kitchens. Outside of the office, we invest in your well-being and learning & development with stipends and reimbursement programs.
• We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family-building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, annual wellness stipend, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, a CLEAR Plus membership, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match. The base salary range for this role is $175,000.00 - $210,000.00, depending on levels of skills and experience.
• The base salary range represents the low and high end of CLEAR’s salary range for this position. Salaries will vary depending on various factors which include, but are not limited to location, education, skills, experience and performance. The range listed is just one component of CLEAR’s total compensation package for employees and other rewards may include annual bonuses, commission, Restricted Stock Units.
• We are committed to a transparent and secure hiring process. All communications related to this role will come directly from a CLEAR employee through valid CLEAR channels (e.g., a valid @clearme.com email address or verified CLEAR LinkedIn profile). We encourage candidates to remain alert to job scams and to report any suspicious activity.

• Comprehensive healthcare plans
• Family-building benefits
• Flexible time off
• Annual wellness stipend
• Free OneMedical memberships
• CLEAR Plus membership
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Catered lunches
• Learning and development stipends