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Principal Product Designer

Cartrawler 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland

Onsite Full-time Senior

The Principal Product Designer defines and drives the future direction of core product experiences by shaping strategy and leading design in complex problem spaces. They partner with senior leadership to influence roadmaps and mentor designers to ensure high-quality, scalable design outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Own design direction across core product experiences
  • Lead design on complex, ambiguous problem spaces
  • Drive strategic initiatives from early concept through to validation
  • Translate opportunities into clear concepts, prototypes, and design artefacts
  • Define scalable, configurable experience patterns
  • Partner with senior Product and Engineering counterparts to shape roadmap direction
  • Balance innovation with feasibility, viability, and user value
  • Communicate and present design work at all levels
  • Set the standard for design craft across complex work
  • Guide and influence design work across squads
  • Mentor and support designers

Requirements

  • 8+ years in product design
  • Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, Interaction Design, or related field
  • Proven experience influencing product direction beyond individual features or squads
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating impact at scale and a proven track record solving systemic, multi-product design challenges
  • Experience leading design work in ambiguous or early-stage (0→1) problem spaces
  • Strong discovery skills, including research, synthesis, concept development, and prototyping

Benefits

  • Competitive pay and benefits
  • Performance-based annual bonus
  • Fully subsidised VHI health insurance
  • Pension matching up to 4%
  • Generous time off and flexible working
  • Comprehensive wellbeing support
  • Growth and recognition culture with development opportunities
  • Everyday perks that make a difference

Key Skills

Product design Interaction design Design thinking User-centered design Figma Miro Mural FigJam Enterprise product architecture Cross-functional collaboration Stakeholder management Design leadership Craft excellence Product evolution Innovation Strategic thinking Problem-solving Communication Storytelling Presentation

About Cartrawler

The leading global B2B provider of car rental and mobility solutions to the travel industry. Our purpose is driving successful partnerships. CarTrawler’s end-to-end technology platform expands our airline and travel partners’ offering to their customers, creating substantial ancillary revenue opportunities. We provide unrivalled breadth and depth of content worldwide, including car rental, private airport transfer and ride-hailing services. CarTrawler creates innovative, data-led solutions for some of the largest travel brands in the world, including United Airlines, American Express, easyJet, Alaska Airlines, SWISS, Hotels.com and Emirates. As a B2B company we focus solely on helping our airline and travel partners build their brands, not our own.

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