Principal Product Designer

Responsibilities

• Define and drive design strategy across multiple product areas, connecting feature-level experiences to platform vision, customer outcomes, and business objectives.
• Establish organizational standards for interaction design, systems thinking, design quality, and design system governance, creating frameworks that enable consistency and scalability across teams.
• Lead complex, ambiguous, and high-impact design initiatives from discovery through execution, aligning stakeholders, shaping solutions, and measuring outcomes.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and executive leadership to influence roadmaps, investment priorities, and architectural decisions through customer-centered design thinking and business insight.
• Champion a culture of design excellence by setting quality expectations, mentoring through influence, facilitating critique, and modeling best practices across the organization.
• Define how AI tools, agent-based workflows, and emerging technologies are incorporated into design processes, establishing standards for AI‑assisted work and responsible innovation.
• Communicate design vision and business value to senior leaders, building alignment around strategic opportunities and measurable outcomes.

• 10+ years experience in product design, including significant experience designing enterprise software or B2B SaaS products, with a portfolio demonstrating strategic impact and systems-level thinking.
• Proven ability to establish design vision, influence cross‑functional stakeholders, and drive alignment across multiple product areas without direct management authority.
• Expertise in designing complex enterprise experiences, including workflow‑heavy applications, data‑rich interfaces, role‑based systems, and platform‑scale ecosystems.
• Deep knowledge of design systems, including component architecture, design tokens, governance models, and scalable operational frameworks.
• Strong understanding of AI‑enabled design practices, with the ability to define workflows, influence adoption, and guide quality standards across teams.
• Exceptional communication, storytelling, and executive presentation skills, with experience connecting design investment to business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to elevate design craft through mentorship, standards‑setting, collaboration, and leading by example.