Group Design Manager, Quickbooks International

Group Design Manager For QuickBooks International

At Intuit, our mission is to power prosperity for small businesses around the world. QuickBooks supports millions of businesses managing real money, real employees, and real risk - and that responsibility only grows as we expand globally.

We're looking for a Group Design Manager to lead Product Design for QuickBooks International. This role is the design counterpart to Product and Engineering leadership, responsible for shaping experience direction across markets including EMEA, APAC, Canada, and Latin America.

You'll lead a cross-disciplinary team of designers working across international products, helping evolve QuickBooks into a platform that feels cohesive at a global level while remaining deeply relevant at a local level. This role sits at the intersection of product strategy, systems thinking, and craft - ensuring that what we build is not only functional, but clear, consistent, and trustworthy for customers everywhere.

Responsibilities

Lead Design Across International Products

• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to define experience direction across international markets
• Translate global platform strategy into locally relevant, high-quality product experiences
• Drive alignment across teams to ensure consistency, clarity, and scalability

Elevate Craft and Experience Quality

• Set and uphold a high bar for interaction, visual, and motion design across your team
• Ensure experiences feel intuitive, cohesive, and polished across surfaces
• Foster a strong culture of critique, feedback, and continuous improvement
• Stay close to the work - providing clear creative direction and hands-on guidance

Shape Platform and System Coherence

• Strengthen shared patterns, frameworks, and design systems that scale across markets
• Balance global consistency with local needs, ensuring experiences feel both unified and relevant
• Reduce fragmentation and improve end-to-end workflow clarity across the platform

Integrate AI Thoughtfully into the Experience

• Help define how AI shows up across international product experiences
• Ensure AI-powered interactions feel natural, trustworthy, and useful
• Partner with Product and Engineering to design experiences that combine automation with human control

Build and Develop a High-Performing Team

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of designers across regions
• Create an environment where craft, accountability, and learning are shared priorities
• Support career development and help designers expand their impact and influence

Qualifications

• An experienced design leader with a strong background in product design
• Comfortable operating at both strategic and execution levels - setting direction while staying close to the work
• Deeply committed to craft, with a strong point of view on quality, usability, and interaction design
• Experience designing for international or multi-market products, with an understanding of how to balance global consistency with local needs
• Skilled at navigating ambiguity and aligning cross-functional partners
• Thoughtful about how emerging technologies, including AI, shape product experiences
• A strong coach who develops teams through clear feedback, support, and high expectations