Principal Product Designer

CaptivateIQ is transforming sales performance management and is seeking a Principal Product Designer to lead design within their Incentive Compensation Management product line. This senior individual contributor role involves defining design vision, mentoring designers, and collaborating with various teams to solve complex problems and enhance product experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the design vision for a major product area, aligning closely with Product and Engineering leadership
• Lead and guide design across multiple teams, reviewing and approving work, and setting the bar for craft, systems thinking, and execution
• 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
• Design and evolve foundational systems, architectures, and reusable patterns, championing platform and systems thinking to ensure cohesion and quality
• Act as a force multiplier by mentoring designers and helping teams raise their execution bar over time
• Co-lead with senior Product and Engineering leaders to influence product strategy and prioritization
• Improve how teams work together, proactively identifying gaps in execution, collaboration, or quality and helping teams course-correct
• Stay current on industry trends and emerging technologies (including AI), using that insight to raise the bar for CaptivateIQ’s product experiences
• Communicate clearly at the org and company level, including writing crisp documents that articulate vision, direction, and tradeoffs

Requirements:

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