Design Manager

Design Manager About Samsung Food At  Samsung Food (you might know us as Whisk), we are pioneering the future of everyday care and health — helping individuals and families around the world live better through connected, proactive, and personalized experiences. Our mission is to connect food, health, and home across the Samsung ecosystem, turning data from your devices into personalized guidance that supports you and your loved ones. We work at the intersection of AI, nutrition, behavior change, and digital health. The Samsung Food app was included in Google Play’s Best of 2020 Everyday Essentials list, has been regularly featured on the Apple App Store, and was nominated for a 2021 Webby Award. We’ve also launched Vision AI, which recognises food and meals using our global Food Genome, and developed deep integrations with Samsung Health and SmartThings. We are a remote-first team of more than 100 people in over 30 countries, united by our commitment to innovation and impact. As part of Samsung Electronics, we combine the agility of a startup with the scale of the world’s largest consumer electronics company. Join us and help build technology that improves daily life for tens of millions of people across phones, wearables, TVs, and kitchen appliances in the years to come. Learn  more about how we’ve shaped a high-performing global team over the past 14 years. About the Role As a Design Manager at Whisk, you will drive a team of Product Designers responsible for delivering high-quality experiences across food, nutrition, health, and connected home surfaces. Your core mandate is to ensure design is predictable, disciplined, and tightly integrated into our product development lifecycle. As a Design Manager at Whisk, your job is to support a high-performance team delivering high-quality design work to strict deadlines driven by global marketing rollouts at the scale of Samsung. We need a leader who is obsessed with execution, someone who can take complex product requirements and turn them into a disciplined, predictable delivery stream. You’ll drive planning, structure, and quality across the design delivery process, guide designers in elevating their craft within delivery constraints, and ensure our work meets Samsung’s global requirements — from accessibility standards to lock processes and system alignment. You will be the primary owner of design delivery once concepts move into execution, with a clear mandate to drive convergence, lock decisions, and ensure on-time, production-ready outcomes. You’ll act as a multiplier for the team, improving how we work, how we collaborate, and how effectively design contributes to shipping meaningful, polished user experiences. This is a role for a people-first leader who brings clarity, structure, and rigor, and who knows how to scale design in a fast-moving, distributed product organization. In this role, you will: Own the end-to-end design delivery operating model for the Product / Delivery track, ensuring work is scoped clearly, resourced effectively, and executed predictably. You’ll establish practical standards for how design estimates, prioritizes, and aligns with product roadmaps, and you’ll actively manage design capacity and tradeoffs across initiatives to protect delivery timelines and team focus. Help cultivate a strong culture of design craft, accountability, and continuous improvement Run core design rituals — critiques, design reviews, lock decisions, handoff checkpoints, and retrospectives. You will set the bar for quality and create structure that helps designers work with confidence and clarity. You’ll own the definition of done to help teams commit to final, build-ready designs on schedule. Integrate design into our strategic delivery lifecycle process by partnering with Product, Engineering, and the Head of Strategic Delivery. You will navigate pressured timelines, proactively identifying risks to delivery schedules and make the calls on scope or trade-of ... (truncated, view full listing at source)