Principal Product Designer

Rox Data Corp • San Francisco, CA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

The Principal Product Designer will lead all product design at Rox end to end, based in the San Francisco office five days a week. This is a player-coach role: the designer will do hands-on design work while leading the existing design team and scaling the design charter. The role is intended to help Rox remain a design-first product company as it grows, working closely with applied AI engineers, growth strategists, forward deployed engineers, and operators. The position is at principal level, with a path to grow into Head of Design over time, and reports to the head of product.

The role owns the company's product design, the design team and its growth, the design quality bar, and the design system across every product surface. Success in the first year includes a settled and stable team with clear direction; design continuing to be evident in shipped products; design embedded in the applied AI engineering, growth, and forward deployed teams with clear ways of working; and a hiring plan with the first key hires made.

Requirements

• Live in San Francisco or be willing to relocate, and work from the office.
• Have led product design end to end at a product company and have a shipped portfolio.
• Have led and grown a design team; experience taking over an existing team is preferred.
• Have real experience designing AI or agent products.
• Be able to build a design-first culture, not only run a design process.
• Have strong taste and be able to explain it in plain language to non-designers.

Nice To Haves

• Early-stage or high-growth company experience.
• Hands-on prototyping craft using code or AI tools.
• Experience improving the work of engineers, growth teams, and operators by working within their teams rather than handing work off.
• Experience guiding a design team through rapid change without losing team members or lowering the quality bar.

Responsibilities

• Lead all product design for the company, end to end.
• Take on the current design team and scale the design charter.
• Keep Rox a design-first product company as it grows.
• Work closely with applied AI engineers, growth strategists, forward deployed engineers, and operators.
• Set the design quality bar and design system across every product surface.
• Perform hands-on design work while leading the team.
• Establish clear ways of working between design and applied AI engineering, growth, and forward deployed teams.
• Create a design-team hiring plan and make the first key hires.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed