Principal Product Designer

• Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring and be responsible for attracting and retaining great people
• Ensure quality by leading interactions with teams and driving QAs while pushing the design agenda forward
• Lead the production of visual designs while overseeing the creation of a variety of visual design documents
• Identify scenarios that will turn into interaction designs
• Direct your teams to improve product UX through the creation of interaction models while acting as a liaison between users and products
• Guide communication with cross-disciplinary teams across all stages of design and development
• Tell a compelling, convincing product story to a variety of audiences that influences buy-in from key stakeholders
• Lead collaboration with creative team members, program managers, and developers to define product features
• Collaborate with leadership and your team to deliver product design results while also providing guidance to product designers and creating clarity for stakeholders
• Enjoy travel and are comfortable with travel up to 25%
• Embody our culture and values

• Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 6+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 8+ years experience working in product or service design
• OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)
• 6+ years experience shipping products, services, or games and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process
• Highly adaptable and energized by ambiguity—able to pivot quickly as priorities evolve in a fast-moving, build-as-we-go environment
• Strong creative process and rationale—demonstrates rigorous end-to-end thinking, with the ability to clearly explain decisions, tradeoffs, and the “why” behind solutions
• Exceptional storytelling and communication skills—comfortable influencing across disciplines, presenting work clearly, and aligning stakeholders through strong storytelling and crisp documentation
• Experience designing solutions for industry-based / external customers—has built products or experiences for a range of customer types and contexts (beyond only first-party/internal product design)
• Working knowledge of design research—able to plan and conduct lightweight to moderate research (e.g., interviews, usability studies, concept validation) and apply findings to improve outcomes
• Comfort operating as a solo design leader in a small or growing org—able to set direction, raise the bar, and establish design clarity as a solo designer supporting an entire studio
• Systems-level thinking—can connect the dots across experiences, ensure cohesion, and help define repeatable patterns while building “AI transformational” solutions
• Demonstrated partnership with AI in design work—uses AI thoughtfully in real-world workflows (or experiments) to explore concepts, accelerate iteration, or improve craft/quality

Ability to code lightweight prototypes (HTML/CSS)—can build end-to-end interactive prototypes to validate ideas, communicate intent, or pressure-test experiences quickly