Remote Principal Product Designer

Summary

Join Grammarly's Core Design team as a Principal Product Designer, contributing strategically to long-term planning and quarterly roadmaps, defining the strategic design direction and product vision for challenging problems, collaborating with senior leaders, maintaining and elevating design standards, mentoring team members, and cultivating a collaborative and innovative design culture.

Requirements

• Has a strong portfolio showcasing strategic thinking and a systematic approach to designing end-to-end experiences that serve user needs and business goals
• Proactively sets and achieves goals, driving projects forward with initiative and accountability
• Demonstrates confidence and enthusiasm while serving as a knowledgeable representative of the design team and users when engaging with stakeholders from other functional areas
• Facilitates consensus-building and drives projects to successful completion
• Enjoys the process of brainstorming solutions as much as the solutions themselves
• Thrives on solving user problems that significantly impact key metrics, leading discussions to achieve strategic goals with a holistic mindset
• Experience mentoring and fostering a culture of growth and development within the design team
• Has excellent communication skills, effectively articulating the rationale behind design decisions and confidently presenting to diverse groups of stakeholders
• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust
• Is able to meet in person for their team’s scheduled collaboration weeks, traveling if necessary to the hub where their team is based

Responsibilities

• Contribute strategically to long-term planning and quarterly roadmaps, aligning design initiatives with business objectives
• Define the strategic design direction and product vision for our most challenging problems
• Collaborate with the VP of Design and senior leaders to evolve company-wide design strategies
• Maintain and elevate design standards in partnership with design leadership, ensuring consistent, high-quality execution
• Mentor team members, helping them develop and grow in their craft
• Cultivate a collaborative and innovative design culture through feedback and process iteration

Benefits

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
• Disability and life insurance options
• 401(k) and RRSP matching
• Paid parental leave
• Twenty days of paid time off per year, eleven days of paid holidays per year, and unlimited sick days
• Home office stipends
• Caregiver and pet care stipends
• Wellness stipends
• Admission discounts
• Learning and development opportunities