Principal Product Designer

Summary

Join EquipmentShare as a Principal Product Designer and become a fierce advocate for users and the design team. As a thought partner, you will leverage your systems-level design thinking and user insights to elevate the craft and model best practices. You will partner with Product and Engineering teams, which are fully remote and highly autonomous, requiring occasional visits to team hubs. This role involves leading creative delivery for complex design problems, mentoring team members, and strategically aligning across organizations. You will define and achieve measurable results, make critical trade-offs, and possess a deep understanding of the organization's tech systems. EquipmentShare offers a remote-first work environment, competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field or equivalent practical experience
• 10 years of experience in product design or UX
• 5 years of experience leading design projects, people or teams
• 3 years of work experience working with executive leaders

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end creative delivery for significantly complex design and technical problems across a portfolio of products and experiences
• Act as a role model within Design, actively develop work and mentor through doing
• Partner with product, engineering and other designers to discover and deliver the best solution to the market including decoupling significantly complex engineering dependencies to enable delivery/innovation across teams or orgs
• Lead strategic alignment across orgs using significant expertise to shape core UX disciplines, methods, and/or processes
• Set the standard for design excellence creating scalable mechanisms and best practices
• Synthesize complex customer, market, and business data to inform CX and business strategy
• Lead cross-org design reviews and participate in product and tech debates, directly influencing outcomes for customers
• Manage escalations
• Define and commit to measurable results and achieve them through direct ownership or influence working with others
• Drive solutions for significantly complex design and technical problems. Effective force multiplier
• Make trade-offs: long-term customer needs vs. immediate business needs
• Have full understanding of org’s tech systems and the external systems their team is dependent upon
• Decouple significantly complex engineering dependencies to enable delivery/innovation across teams or orgs
• Proactively identify tech investments/improvements that unlock innovation and/or unblock delivery
• Solutions address capabilities and constraints of the technology stack and may influence it

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 7 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization
• Working knowledge or experience working in the Construction or Fleet Management Industries
• Portfolio highlighting multiple projects and your direct contributions

Benefits

• Remote First
• True Work/Life balance
• Competitive salary
• Health insurance and medical coverage benefits
• 401(k) and company match
• Unlimited paid time off
• Paid primary and secondary parental leave
• Management commitment to a diverse and inclusive work environment
• Choice of MacBook Pro, Linux, or Windows machine
• Wellness benefits including a Gym stipend for remote employees
• Volunteering and local charity initiatives that help you nurture and grow the communities you call home
• Opportunities for career and professional development with conferences, events, seminars and continued education
• 2 free audio books a month centered around personal & professional development