Principal product designer

Championing product-led excellence

Productboard is a product management platform helping teams engage with their customer research, product strategy, and roadmaps. We believe in making products that matter – products that solve real-world problems and make their users better at what they do. With our continued move upmarket, our enterprise customers and their products make a real dent in the world.

If you’re passionate about well-made digital products, keep the customer front-and-center, and can appreciate the challenge of designing products for scale, at scale, keep reading.

We’re looking for a seasoned principal product designer to look broadly across our product with a decisive and fast-moving mindset to enable swift delivery of value into the hands of our customers.

Do you get excited about setting direction, turning product strategy into tangible actions, and evaluating what gets ship to learn and iterate rapidly? Can you translate it into purposeful direction and coaching empowering the designers on product teams, helping the whole organization move faster?

With 6,000 customers, 90,000 monthly active users, and customers like Zoom, Microsoft, and UiPath, you’ll impact a large, growing, and engaged user base.

What the team’s like

The design team’s goal is to make it exceptionally easy for customers to discover, engage with, and benefit from our products. 

You will become an integral part of our product organization's seasoned leadership, collaborating with a team of expert product designers united by a shared mission: to delight the customer, and to keep getting better at their craft. We are eager for you to build upon this foundation

As a team of seasoned experience-builders, we know that the more engaged our people are, the better our work will be. Ours is a genuine, collaborative atmosphere where you can positively influence and self-realize.

You’ll be joining a company built by missionaries, where great work gets rewarded, and you’ll be able to do some of your best work here. Does it sound like something you’d enjoy? Let us know!

Your weekly snapshot

• Strategize with the design team and contribute to product vision and objectives. React quickly to emerging situations to keep the product work moving.
• Collaborate with design, product, analytics, marketing, sales, and engineering teams to craft and refine user experiences. Design, prototype, and iterate on intuitive solutions and interactions addressing customer needs.
• Mentor and guide senior and staff designers, creating a culture of growth towards excellence.
• Join design crits and product discussions to inform or make decisions, and embrace pair-designing for ideation, review, and improvement.
• Represent critical parts of the design work upwards and across the company.

What you’re like

• You’ve worked as an advanced design individual contributor before, and you can deliver lean, compelling work and bring others along for the journey.
• You don’t hesitate to own and drive projects, get stuff done, and improve ways of working. You empower others to do the work, giving them your methods and intuitions, but you can also lean in as needed.
• You can sense what the business is trying to achieve and adapt your approach in response to evolving strategy, emerging insights, customer feedback, and market dynamics.
• When making design decisions, you balance intuition from years of experience with strategy, evidence, and measurement.
• You communicate clearly and effectively and can confidently work with cross-functional and cross-departmental stakeholders. Your Slack and Zoom styles are as strong as your in-person comms.
• You build relationships quickly, seek feedback to grow, and, in turn, give feedback with candor and empathy.
• You’ve experienced a B2B SaaS organization serving enterprise customers, one with a mature product design practice.

A peek into our world

From the outside, it can be hard to imagine what working here is like. That’s why we have our Comparably profile. Their impartial view gives potential starters a good look inside our company.

After you’ve read our Comparably, head to our design team’s page to learn who’s on the team, how we work, and look at what we’ve published. See how we wrote the team’s charter, too.

Meet Zdenek, our product design manager. Get his take on what life’s really like as a designer at Productboard.

Or if you’re on the move, listen to this podcast episode about building great products, and this one about delight, both featuring our CEO and co-founder Hubert.

What the designers here say

“What I love most about Productboard is our customer-centricity and the daily opportunity to work on challenging problems with incredibly smart people. Our collaboration culture is really strong, both within the team and across product teams, resulting in great outcomes. This is rewarding in itself and definitely not just “work” – we always find time to laugh, eat, or grab a beer together.”

— Michaela Bartkova, Senior Product Designer, almost three years on board

“I joined Productboard for its impactful and inspiring mission. What I found here is a company with a mature design culture. Design is really valued here, there’s a lot of collaboration and everything is rooted in customer insights by staying close to them. Product teams operate in an empowered way which I enjoy a lot. The company grows quickly and the best part is that I grow with it through the right challenges and opportunities to do great work. On top of all that, I get to work every day with professionals with whom I have fun.”

— Adam Amran, Senior Product Designer, over three years on board

Some more perks to working with us

You'll join a diverse and talented team, with plenty of opportunities for personal growth, impact, and learning.

💰 Stock options

💻 MacBook

📚 Budget for online courses, books, and conferences

🏝 5 weeks of vacation + sick days

❤️ 1 Volunteer Day per year for you to help causes close to your heart

🍹 Team events, such as off-sites and retreats

💚 Shared Headspace account for mindfulness & mental health

🧒🏻 Parental benefits

🎓 Language lessons

🍀 Mental Wellness Program to support your well-being and self-care

🏥 Comprehensive Health Insurance

👨🏼‍🦳 Pension Contribution

🤒 Illness Protection

💟 Death in Service Benefit