Principal Product Designer, Automation

Summary

Join HubSpot as a Principal Product Designer and lead the evolution of the automation product experience across the platform. You will drive the end-to-end design process for a new product experience, collaborate with various teams, create interactive prototypes, conduct user research, and contribute to the design system. Success in this role involves rapidly developing high-fidelity prototypes, possessing deep domain knowledge, uncovering unmet user needs, and utilizing data analysis skills. You will thrive if you model "thinking like an owner," enjoy managing complex projects, excel in communication, and foster team health. HubSpot offers a flexible work environment and a supportive culture.

Requirements

• Ability to rapidly develop high-fidelity prototypes to help teams and customers visualize the impact of this new experience
• Having deep domain knowledge across all product areas
• Being considered a master in uncovering new unmet user needs across the product
• Using knowledge of root causes to investigate new problem spaces that span multiple groups
• Having deep data analysis skills and a knack for improving our data collection systems
• Helping team members engage more deeply with data
• Modeling ways to gracefully shift gears as new information becomes available

Responsibilities

• Lead Design for Concept Car experience vision: Drive the end-to-end design process for a new product experience, from initial concept to partnering with product and engineering on the optimal execution path
• Collaborate across functional areas and levels to get results: This is a deeply established and used product area that, while in need of fresh thinking and a new approach, requires high consideration for change management to ensure a successful rollout
• Rapid Prototyping: Create interactive prototypes using tools like Figma to effectively communicate design concepts and test user interactions
• User Research & Validation: Conduct user research, synthesize findings, and translate insights into actionable design decisions
• Strategic Vision: Collaborate with product managers and engineers to define the product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with user needs and business goals
• Design System Contribution: Contribute to and evolve HubSpot’s design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across new products
• Mentorship & Leadership: Provide mentorship and guidance to junior designers, fostering a culture of design excellence
• Navigate Ambiguity: Effectively work both leadership on longer terms goals and existing product teams on incremental improvements, defining processes, operating systems and delivering results in the face of uncertainty

Preferred Qualifications

• Model “thinking like an owner” in terms of how team should spend time & resources
• Enjoy tracking multiple high complexity projects and helping create visibility in these areas
• Are known for your communication artifact quality (decks, memos, etc)
• Model best practices for knowledge sharing, collaboration and facilitation
• Have a knack for helping others embrace change across multiple groups
• Master the ability to appeal on both logical and emotional fronts when selling an agenda or vision
• Clarify shared expectations across groups in service if a larger mission
• Have the proven ability to break down resistance and anticipate pitfalls
• Are experienced in fostering team health, mission, and purpose
• Can confidently deliver clear, direct, and actionable feedback—and ask for it in return
• Share our HEART values and practice growth mindset

Benefits

• Annual Cash Compensation Range: $210,000 — $336,000 USD
• Flexible work environment