Principal Product Designer (London / Dublin / Prague)

London Source: WhatJobs

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Overview

In this role, you will shape Productboard’s UX as the unified, AI-first product experience. You’ll define architecture, patterns, and design language that weave agentics, artifacts, and structured UI into one coherent product. You’ll lead end-to-end usability and set standards across teams, partnering with Product, Engineering, and the executive team. This is a high-impact, architecture-focused IC role with real decision rights and visible influence on the company’s design direction.

Pay / Benefits

Stock options
MacBook + 34" monitor
Work from home stipend
Flexible working hours and home office
Budget for online courses, books, and conferences
2 weeks of fully paid parental leave

Responsibilities

Own UX and interaction architecture including information architecture, navigation, and object model to make Productboard feel like a single product
Define interaction patterns for an AI-first product and decide when interfaces should be chat, generated artifacts, interactive UI, or conventional interfaces
Standardize design patterns and codify them as product-wide standards to raise the bar across domains
Set design direction and language, connect user insight with strategy, and present evidence-based direction to executives
Raise end-to-end usability and cross-product coherence, championing consistency and driving fixes across teams
Lead design critique, provide architectural guidance to senior designers, and mentor through pairing and coaching
Personally carry the hardest design work at platform level including navigation and object-model redesigns, from concept to prototype to shipped product
Prototype in code by default to settle debates and align stakeholders using working AI-enabled prototypes

Key requirements

8+ years in product design as a senior IC on complex products
Systems thinker with ability to hold product structure in mind while drafting details
Proven track record of elevating product usability and coherence
Experience designing products where agents perform real work for users, including trust, control, and cold-start challenges
AI-first approach with hands-on use of AI tools for research, prototyping, building, and analysis
Excellent craft in interaction and visual design with ability to guide others
Comfort with setting standards across teams and making principled, evidence-based trade-offs
Ability to influence PMs and executives and to shape roadmaps with user insights