Principal Product Designer

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience designing B2B SaaS products, ideally enterprise, platform, or systems-heavy software
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• Demonstrated success leading company-critical, high-impact initiatives as an individual contributor
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• Exceptional strength in UX, UI, system design, and interaction design, with a track record of setting quality standards others follow
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• Deep product, domain, and business acumen, with the ability to influence strategy and connect design decisions to commercial outcomes
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• Experience designing complex, data-heavy, workflow-driven systems at enterprise scale
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• Proven ability to coach and elevate other design leaders, including senior- and Staff-level designers
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• Comfort operating with high autonomy, navigating ambiguity, and creating clarity where none exists
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• Exceptional written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with the presence and confidence to influence at the executive level
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• Strong judgment, leadership presence, and ability to drive alignment and accountability without formal authority

• We’re looking for a Principal Product Designer to lead design within Captivate
  
  IQ’s Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) product line
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• This is a senior individual contributor role for a designer who thrives in complexity, owns large problem spaces end to end, and leads through influence, judgment, and craft—setting vision and shaping product direction across teams and the broader organization
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• You’ll operate with high autonomy and partner closely with Product, Engineering, CX, and executive leadership to solve complex, high-impact problems and establish what great looks like for enterprise-scale systems
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• Define and drive the design vision for a major product area, aligning closely with Product and Engineering leadership
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• Lead and guide design across multiple teams, reviewing and approving work, and setting the bar for craft, systems thinking, and execution
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• Identify and lead the most complex, high-impact initiatives across the product and organization, shaping new problems and opportunities that drive customer and business impact
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• Design and evolve foundational systems, architectures, and reusable patterns, championing platform and systems thinking to ensure cohesion and quality
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• Act as a force multiplier by mentoring designers and helping teams raise their execution bar over time
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• Co-lead with senior Product and Engineering leaders to influence product strategy and prioritization
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• Improve how teams work together, proactively identifying gaps in execution, collaboration, or quality and helping teams course-correct
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• Stay current on industry trends and emerging technologies (including AI), using that insight to raise the bar for Captivate
  
  IQ’s product experiences
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• Communicate clearly at the org and company level, including writing crisp documents that articulate vision, direction, and tradeoffs
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• Incentive compensation is where business intent becomes reality, where complex rules directly affect how people are paid, how companies build trust, and how revenue teams stay motivated
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• As Captivate
  
  IQ evolves rapidly and embraces increasingly sophisticated, AI-driven workflows, this space continues to grow in complexity and strategic importance
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• As a Principal Product Designer, you’ll help define what’s next for this system, and for how powerful enterprise platforms should feel, scale, and evolve
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• Your work will shape the foundations of the product, set the quality bar for the organization, and influence how teams across Captivate
  
  IQ design and build