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Principal Product Designer
Location
United States
Posted
12 hours ago
Salary
$160K - $170K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Product Designer
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• Shape the work before it starts. • Partner with sales through pre-sales and scoping. • Act as a first point of contact for clients and delivery teams. • Do the work. UX, UI, interactive prototyping, research, data visualization, and design systems. • Run discovery workshops and alignment sessions. • Facilitate feedback with clients and their users. • Partner closely with engineering. • Make sure design QA happens. • Set the bar for everyone else. • Define the processes and craft standards the team works from, and make sure they're held across projects. • Build the tooling that makes the team faster and better in an AI-enabled world. • Mentor designers and lift the craft of the people around you.
Job Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years in a design lead role, setting direction on projects.
- A track record of launching real products, not just polished concepts.
- Zero-to-one and incremental work both.
- A history of mentoring designers and raising the craft of a team, not just shipping your own work.
- A point of view on where AI belongs in a design practice, and the drive to build the tools that put it there.
- Communication above all. Writing matters, but what matters more is your ability to speak, articulate your thinking, and carry a room.
- Self-direction and ownership. You scope your work, manage its blast radius, and know when to push back or say no.
- Comfort with ambiguity, at both the design and business layer.
- Design systems thinking as a core competency.
Benefits
- 401k match
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- $200/mo cell/internet stipend
- $600/yr home office equipment stipend
- Paid parental leave (95th percentile in the U.S.)
- Continuing education stipend ($2,500/yr after one year)
- Loaned MacBook Pro and other necessary equipment
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