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Principal Product Designer
Alarm.com • Liberty Lake, United States of America 🇺🇸
Define and lead design strategies for high-impact product initiatives while ensuring alignment with business goals. Oversee complex design projects from concept through launch, ensuring quality standards are met before development or release.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead design strategies for high-impact product initiatives in alignment with the product vision and business goals
- Drive discovery of customer needs through research, usability testing, and direct engagement, ensuring insights guide product direction
- Maintain and evolve OpenEye's design strategy for consistency, scalability, and usability, and alignment with business objectives
- Oversee complex design projects from concept through launch, ensuring engineering-ready deliverables meet quality standards before development or release
- Mentor and develop junior Product Designers and coach the broader product team in design thinking and best practices
- Partner with Product Management, Engineering, and QA to ensure alignment of customer needs, business objectives, and technical feasibility
- Ensure feedback from stakeholders and users is integrated into design iterations and post-launch improvements
- Review UX changes for adherence to design standards and usability principles
- Stay informed about industry trends, competitor offerings, and emerging technologies to inspire innovation
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, or a related field
- 7+ years of professional experience in product design, including senior or higher leadership roles
- Proven track record of leading end-to-end product design for complex software applications from concept through delivery
- Strong portfolio showing designs that address validated customer problems and deliver measurable impact
- Demonstrated experience directly leading customer discovery efforts, including research planning, usability testing, and firsthand engagement with end users
- Deep understanding of user-centered methodologies, usability principles, and accessibility standards
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate the rationale behind design decisions
- Proficiency with modern design tools such as Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD
Key Skills
- Modern design tools such as Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD
- User-centered methodologies, usability principles, and accessibility standards
- Collaboration and communication skills
- Design thinking and best practices
Benefits
- The pay range for this opportunity is $110,000 - $160,000 annually
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Collaborative, fun, creative culture where idea sharing is encouraged
- Casual dress
- Medical, dental, vision & prescription benefits starting day 1
- Generous medical plan subsidy and health savings account option with company contribution
- Up to $5,000 annual company match for 401k
- Company paid short-term/long-term disability, AD&D and life insurance
- Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA) to get reimbursed for your well-being needs
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Pet Insurance
- Free annual membership to Care.com
- Free access to the Headspace app for you and up to five friends and family members
- 15 Days of Paid Vacation accrued per year
- 7 Paid Sick/Wellness days per year
- 9 Paid Holidays per year
- Educational Assistance Program covering non-degree support, undergraduate and graduate degrees
- Employee Equipment Program – Free Alarm.com system for your home
About Alarm.com
Alarm.com is the leading platform for the intelligently connected property. Millions of people depend on Alarm.com's technology to monitor and control their property from anywhere. Centered on security and remote monitoring, our platform addresses a wide range of market needs and enables application-based control for a growing variety of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Our security, video monitoring, intelligent automation and energy management solutions are available through our network of thousands of professional service providers in North America and around the globe. Alarm.com's common stock is traded on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ALRM. Alarm.com earned the Top Workplace™ award for its employee culture and the meaningful work we do every day to develop and bring to market new technology that will make millions of people safer and help them use energy more efficiently. We’re seeking those who are passionate about creating change through technology and who want to mak
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