Principal Product Designer- United States

Very is a fully distributed technology firm that creates efficient, scalable solutions for various clients. They are seeking a Principal Product Designer to oversee the full arc of design on projects, mentor other designers, and shape the processes and standards of the design team.

Responsibilities:

• Shape the work before it starts. Partner with sales through pre-sales and scoping. Act as a first point of contact for clients and delivery teams
• Do the work. UX, UI, interactive prototyping, research, data visualization, and design systems. Run discovery workshops and alignment sessions. Facilitate feedback with clients and their users. Partner closely with engineering. Make sure design QA happens
• Set the bar for everyone else. Define the processes and craft standards the team works from, and make sure they're held across projects. Build the tooling that makes the team faster and better in an AI-enabled world. Mentor designers and lift the craft of the people around you

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5 years in a design lead role, setting direction on projects. (For context, that usually means around a decade in design overall.)
• A track record of launching real products, not just polished concepts. Zero-to-one and incremental work both
• A history of mentoring designers and raising the craft of a team, not just shipping your own work
• A point of view on where AI belongs in a design practice, and the drive to build the tools that put it there
• Communication above all. Writing matters, but what matters more is your ability to speak, articulate your thinking, and carry a room
• Self-direction and ownership. You scope your work, manage its blast radius, and know when to push back or say no
• Comfort with ambiguity, at both the design and business layer
• Design systems thinking as a core competency
• UX and UI design
• Interactive prototyping
• User research
• Data visualization
• Design systems
• Must be authorized to work in the United States of America without sponsorship
• IoT and connected-product experience
• React, HTML, and CSS (our team does this; we can teach it)
• Experience designing for data-heavy or analytical products, where the challenge is making complex information feel clear and actionable
• Experience designing agentic or AI-driven products, you understand how to design for systems that act, not just respond