Principal Product Designer, Peer to Peer

The Principal Product Designer will lead experience strategy and design output for the Peer to Peer App pod, focusing on innovative product architecture and user experiences. They will mentor junior designers and drive design quality across the team.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Provocateur, pushing the design thinking and generating concepts and opportunities that others have yet to consider or see
• Serve as a creative director and leader of experience strategy for specific projects within a pod and will set the tone and standard for the design output for the product and more junior designers
• Lead by example and drive the definition, strategy, and design concepts against specific briefs from the business and our product partners
• Mentor and lead a small group of designers with a very minimal amount of administrative responsibility
• Ensure the design quality can spread not only within your pod but across pods and into our product design system team

Requirements

• Kind, generous, nurturing, supportive, and can see beyond your own ideas or instincts
• Love to study and design for consumer behaviors with a specific interest in consumerism, retail, and evolving cultural norms
• Believe in the power of brand, a well-articulated point of view, and the necessity of driving measurable business outcomes
• Deep love and bias for designing products that blend interaction design with brand visual, and content design
• Magical powers come through your ability to add clarity to opportunities and to frame problems that drive designers and product work into new realms
• Undeniable ability to inspire and provoke new thinking that can catalyze partners and designers on your respective teams
• Remarkable ability to set and evolve the vision of a product experience through your strategic storytelling, problem driven frameworks, insight gathering, comprehension of visual design and interactive design craft
• Proven ability to broaden a creative brief and introduce unexpected visionary concepts that evolve the orthodoxy and convention of a product experience, on behalf of the user’s behaviors
• Incredible ability to tell stories of your work through presentation design, prototypes, storytelling, and explicit connection to larger business strategies
• Deep understanding for how to motivate design work through explorations, concept development, and creative directions that draft off a core brand design system
• Proven ability to take calculated risks in concepts - pushing against some conventions while not straying too far that it becomes unusable or incongruent with a brand positioning or identity
• Thrive on provoking new thinking through design work - both in interaction, architecture and visual brand design terms
• Love being an independent contributor but also understand you are a leader that others will look up to and model against based on your insanely talented craft and visionary instincts
• 12+ years of experience in consumer facing digital product design work

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Employee shares options
• Health and life insurance
• Other benefits