About the position
At Productboard, we fundamentally believe that the world's best products are created by product makers who possess an exceptionally deep understanding of their customers' needs. Whether they are Product Managers, Designers, or Engineers, the brightest minds behind the most successful and beloved products are those who truly embody their customers. That is why we have centered the functionality of our Product Management Platform around understanding customers, competitors, feedback, and user research. We've built a unique set of capabilities designed to distill critical customer insights to inform key product decisions. The Insights team at Productboard oversees this critically important set of capabilities and the underlying platform that centralizes data about the market, including information on customers and competitors, user feedback, and research from interviews, emails, support tickets, social media conversations, app reviews, direct customer requests, and more. We're seeking a seasoned Principal Product Designer to become a key part of this critical team to help customers instantaneously and continuously map value throughout their journey through the product. You'll be responsible for owning and developing the entire product area related to customer insights and its growth with customers. You'll work broadly across our platforms to ensure that all our capabilities are fundamentally customer-centric. You'll also raise the bar of Design craft - visual execution, engaging interactions, usability, and overall user experience of the product. You will play a pivotal role in driving both design and execution to stay ahead of our competition. The capabilities we deliver and the set of use cases we solve for have never been fully addressed by any software product before, meaning you must be prepared for the uncertainty and excitement of operating at the forefront of innovation in our space. Our product is driven by a strong product-led growth motion, and you will be among people who understand the challenges of simplifying complexity without compromising functionality for large enterprises. This role is based in our San Francisco office, where you will work closely with your product management and engineering colleagues on-site at least three days a week (Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays) to ensure the close alignment necessary for the highly innovative nature of your work. You will also collaborate with several other globally located product teams and have the opportunity to travel to Prague and other European destinations.
Responsibilities
- Uncover and cultivate a deep understanding of the customer-centric requirements essential for modern product managers and their stakeholders.
- Proactively discover product opportunities, build justifications and bring clarity into understanding of underlying customer problems.
- Co-define and lead initiatives and programs where your expertise and experience is needed to define and guide the work.
- Mentor senior and other staff designers and push the quality of craft execution and design practices to high standards.
- Join and/or lead design critiques and product discussions to inform or make decisions, embrace pair-designing for ideation and collaboration with others.
- Represent critical parts of the design work upwards and across the company in collaboration with design leaders.
- Enhance and develop innovative patterns and systems that can stand the pressure of enterprise customers, are durable, and set the new standard for the product.
- Exhibit exceptional communication skills by effectively translating complex concepts into actionable implications for the business.
- Drive product-led growth by creating designs that encourage user engagement, satisfaction, and adoption.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in senior individual contributor design role, preferably in Enterprise B2B SaaS.
- Exceptional interaction and visual design skills, with emphasis on interaction design and information architecture.
- Ability and empathy to conduct user research, develop user personas, and create customer journey maps.
- Experience with the latest design patterns, processes, and tooling (Figma).
- Portfolio of product experiences that were shipped and are able to convey the impact on the business and customers.
- Experience in working on complex collaborative products that are architected as modular and extensible platforms or at least have some aspects of a modern platform approach.
- Strong track record of delivering products with cross-functional teams to enterprise customers.
- Appreciation and understanding of the complex needs of large enterprise organizations.
- Organizational and execution skills to lead across the company through indirect influence.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex findings clearly to diverse audiences, including senior executives internally and externally.
- Proactive, curious, and independent, with a passion for solving broader problems, advancing your craft, and driving company-wide impact.
- Proven experience in driving product-led growth initiatives through design.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary reflecting your role's value.
- Stock options for company success.
- Robust 401k for long-term financial health.
- Life insurance and disability coverage.
- Carrot Fertility Benefits.
- Best-in-class health benefits with contributions, including a convenient One Medical Membership for quality healthcare.
- Subsidized gym and wellness memberships.
- Commuter benefits for convenience.
- Dedicated mental wellness programs and personal access to Soulmio for mindfulness.
- Generous paid time off: Flexible PTO + 9 sick days.
- 8 weeks of Paternity leave and 12 weeks of Maternity leave.
- Annual volunteer day for your chosen causes.
- Daily office lunches catering to your preferences.
- Professional development budget for growth.
- Regular team events to foster camaraderie.
- Hone - Live, Interactive Learning for Managers, Leaders and Teams.
