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— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Principal Product Designer - SlideShare
Scribd • Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦
Lead the vision and strategy for Slideshare, setting the north star and turning long-term vision into testable hypotheses. Mentor a small team of designers to create meaningful impact and ensure high-quality design standards across the platform.
Responsibilities
- Lead vision and strategy—set the north star and near-term bets with pillar leads and partners, turning long-term vision into testable hypotheses and iterative projects.
- Uplevel quality—establish patterns, systems, and team rituals that raise craft across Slideshare and keep the experience cohesive, accessible, and performant.
- Mentor and multiply—coach senior/junior designers, modeling crisp decision-making, and upleveling interaction and visual polish.
- Turn ideas into evidence—prototype, run focused studies with UXR, and partner with Analytics to quantify impact.
- Align across brands—work with design counterparts across brands to avoid design debt, share components where sensible, and keep AI surfaces coherent.
- Communicate with influence—drive crisp narratives, reviews, and decision docs that create alignment and momentum at the org level.
Requirements
- 10+ years in product design. Experience with principal-level scope, from zero-to-one strategy through high-fidelity execution and launch.
- A portfolio that shows systems thinking, interaction depth, visual excellence, and measurable outcomes.
- Strength in problem framing and critical thinking—you connect insights to strategy and strategy to shipped, validated work.
- Track record mentoring senior ICs and leading through influence across Executive Leadership, as well as Product, Engineering, and Research.
- Fluency with research methods and product analytics—you use data and judgment to move fast without losing confidence.
- Mastery of Figma and modern prototyping tools. Comfortable with motion, micro-interactions, AI prototyping, and design documentation.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted creation/recommendation patterns.
- Experience with UGC/creator ecosystems, search/SEO, or marketplace dynamics is a nice to have.
Key Skills
- Design tools proficiency
- User-centered design principles
- Experience with design systems
- Systems thinking
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Craft leadership
- Research methods
- Product analytics
- Figma and modern prototyping tools
- AI prototyping
- Design documentation
- AI-assisted creation/recommendation patterns
- UGC/creator ecosystems
- Search/SEO
- Marketplace dynamics
Benefits
- Healthcare Insurance Coverage (Medical/Dental/Vision): 100% paid for employees
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- Short-term/long-term disability plans
- 401k/RSP matching
- Onboarding stipend for home office peripherals + accessories
- Learning & Development allowance
- Learning & Development programs
- Quarterly stipend for Wellness, WiFi, etc.
- Mental Health support & resources
- Free subscription to the Scribd Inc. suite of products
- Referral Bonuses
- Book Benefit
- Sabbaticals
- Company-wide events
- Team engagement budgets
- Vacation & Personal Days
- Paid Holidays (+ winter break)
- Flexible Sick Time
- Volunteer Day
- Company-wide Employee Resource Groups and programs that foster an inclusive and diverse workplace.
- Access to AI Tools: We provide free access to best-in-class AI tools, empowering you to boost productivity, streamline workflows, and accelerate bold innovation.
About Scribd
We're on a mission to spark human curiosity. Our four brands — Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable — deliver knowledge, information, and inspiration to billions of people across the globe.
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