US Principal Product Designer

Praxent•Austin, WA

4d•$125,000 - $156,000•Remote

About The Position

We're looking for a Principal Product Designer to lead the delivery of outstanding user experiences across our diverse portfolio of projects. In this role, you'll be instrumental in crafting experience visions, collaborating with clients to refine design scope, championing the importance of design, and fostering compromise when needed to achieve optimal outcomes. Your expertise will be pivotal in pushing boundaries to devise innovative solutions and reframing projects to align with both business objectives and user needs. Additionally, you'll play a key role in nurturing emerging talent through mentorship, while also contributing to team cohesion and departmental success by effectively managing resources and offering valuable feedback to colleagues. The design team covers a broad spectrum of practice areas including: discovery and analysis, user research, information architecture, interaction design, product design, and occasional brand and visual design. Your ability and desire to justify design decisions with strong rationale, supporting research and/or best practices is a must.

Requirements

Proficiency with Figma
Ability and desire to justify design decisions with strong rationale
Experience designing features for software applications and systems
Ability to handle multiple competing priorities
Experience conducting user research
Experience working with client stakeholders in an agency or freelance setting
7+ years of experience in product design. You specialize in UX, UI, and User Research.
You are knowledgeable in front-end development, visual design/branding, and design systems.
You’re prolific. You have lost count of how many digital products you have designed yourself or helped design.
1+ years of design leadership. You define, inspire, and drive the execution of an experience vision across multiple projects.
You want a seat at the table. You’re interested in sales, and all the touchpoint meetings thereafter. You want to sit alongside other disciplines and present a unified and collaborative vision for every project.
You know the trends but don’t need to follow them. You are up-to-date on the latest design trends and best practices. You also know the best design solution is the right one.
You’re competent to the core. You understand the foundational principles of web and mobile design–from user experience to interaction design to information architecture to content strategy and so on.
You communicate ever so clearly. Your presentations are pristine, powerful, and persuasive. (You love alliteration.) More importantly, you listen. It’s how you always know what to say.

Responsibilities

Shape, estimate, propose, and lead product design engagements by casting a clear vision and adapting strategies as needed to ensure project success.
Showcase your mastery in UX, UI, and User Research. Facilitate workshops, Create UX artifacts, establish style and UI systems, prepare for and meet with end-users, and lead teams through challenges, ensuring high-quality outcomes.
Impress our clients with insightful and unexpected value that creates compelling case studies to highlight the success and impact of our products.

Benefits

Stability. We've been in business for over 20 years.
Work stays at work. We promote a healthy work/life balance to help ensure you have the time that you need. We encourage no more than a 40 hour work week.
Great company culture. We’ve been recognized by Texas Monthly, Clutch, Comparably, and more for the quality of our workplace. Feel free to check out our rating on Glassdoor.
We’re here to empower you. It’s your work and your career. Our management team is here to help you become who you want to be. Not to micromanage you.
Stay healthy. We offer medical, dental, and vision coverage as well as wellness days. We also provide disability insurance and we even have a wellness program.
Plan for the future. We don’t want you to work here forever. Save for retirement with an IRA and we’ll match up to 3% every year.
We value your ideas. At Praxent, our doors are always open. Need help? Come on in. Have a vision for the future of the company? We’d love to hear it.
Rest and relaxation. Employees enjoy 15 days of PTO, 9 US holidays, 5 wellness days, and a closed office the last week of the year. Employees earn more PTO each year.
You’re more than an employee, you’re a person. Every co-worker you’ll meet is committed to treating you with respect and kindness. You won’t hear stuff like, “It’s just business.”
Family values. Praxent provides paid parental leave.