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Principal Product Designer job at Salsify

Salsify helps brand manufacturers, distributors, and retailers in over 80 countries collaborate to win on the digital shelf. The company’s Commerce Experience Management (CommerceXM) platform serves as the system of record for products, accelerates time to market for products, facilitates cross-team and cross-organization collaboration at scale, and provides the insights needed to continuously optimize product pages across channels. The result is shopper-centric, frictionless, and memorable commerce experiences. Great commerce experiences that are delivered efficiently improve brand trust, amplify product differentiation and assortments, increase conversion rate, improve profit margins, and speed time to market.

In May 2021, Salsify acquired Alkemics, and its Supplier Experience Management platform which is used by large scale retailers in Europe to discover, list, and launch products from more than 20,000 brands.

Learn how the world’s largest brands, including Mars, L'Oreal, Coca-Cola, Bosch, and GSK, as well as retailers and distributors such as E.Leclerc, Carrefour, Metro, and Intermarché use Salsify everyday to stand out on the digital shelf.

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Are you passionate about all things design systems, have system-thinking super powers and lead with empathy? If so, let’s talk about Habanero!

As Lead UX Designer – Design System, you'll be our Habanero Center of Excellence. You'll lead our Habanero roadmap, drive consistent designer usage and establish design system governance. This role is part of our cross-functional Habanero team, and will collaborate and partner with engineering to thoughtfully guide the creation of new components to meet the myriad of use cases of our platform.

This hire will also play a pivotal role on our Product Design Leadership Team, helping us set the course and vision for our team, our culture, the Salsify platform and our collective future.

How You'll Make an Impact:

Lead design strategy for Habanero, it's adoption and growth in the organization and its day-to-day management
be the voice of Habanero in design reviews and provide feedback on component viability, prioritization, consistent usage and design spec completeness
Align, partner and collaborate with product designers, engineers, PMs, our platform, and our users to build communication bridges and guide the major initiatives that define our user experience
Lead the design, creation, accurate construction and organization of robust and ergonomic components for Habanero in Figma.
Write clear and concise documentation and create best practices to provide support and guide all Habanero Design System collaborators
Be a leading voice in product and cross-team and cross-company discussions; influence and build consensus in an often ambiguous, always fast paced environment

You'll Enjoy This Role If You Have:

6+ years in a UX Designer or Product Designer role with 1+ years leading a complex design system in B2B and/or SaaS
An online portfolio showcasing outstanding product design outcomes and system thinking along with the chops to articulate how you and your team got to the solution and why
Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with the ability meet designers/engineers at a range of levels where they are and help them understand the value and machinery of the system and how to deploy it effectively
A born system-thinker who sees patterns in the context of our entire platform, not just the feature or functionality
Shown ability to measurably impacting the whole business/product/engineering workflow by continually refining current processes and generating improvement ideas
Strong expertise designing, governing, measuring and scaling a design system in Figma

The nice to haves:

Experience working on a global product team
Proficiency with remote study and collaboration tools

What We Have for You:

Competitive Salary
Equity
401 (k)
Unlimited Vacation
Full Benefits: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
Company provided Life Insurance and Short Term Disability as well as additional voluntary insurance elections
FSA: Medical, Commuter, and Dependent Care
HSA: Tax-advantaged Medical Savings Account
16 Week Paid Maternity & 10 Week Paid Parental Leave Program
Referral Bonuses

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Salsify loves a good success story and it would be our privilege to help write yours! We recognize that talent and potential come in all forms and that years of experience does not guarantee on the job effectiveness or leadership potential. Our hiring process involves recognizing a person’s achievements, subject matter expertise, and passion, not just check marks next to a job description. If you have an interest in our roles please do not hesitate to apply - we would be happy to speak with you!

Salsify’s mission is to empower brand manufacturers to win on the digital shelf.

Helping brand manufacturers to win online is what we do. Our culture is who we are. We are empowered. We are positive thinkers. We take action. We care deeply. These values have driven Salsify’s growth and earned the company numerous top workplace awards.

We are headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and have hubs in Lisbon (Portugal), Paris (France), and remote offices around the globe. If you are excited to work in a fast-paced environment with a team that values agility, curiosity and passion, we want to hear from you!

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