Principal Product Designer Full Time

What you’ll do

• You’ll work across many aspects of the design process. Our Principals are true multidisciplinary designers and craftspeople, bridging experience, visual, and motion design to create exceptional digital products.
• Set the bar for quality on your projects. Typically you’ll be the only principal designer on a project, so you’ll be identifying opportunities to elevate the work and the team around you, often pushing clients and colleagues outside of their comfort zones to deliver exceptional products.
• Support other designers of all levels in the work and help to promote an inspiring and inclusive environment for the team.
• Work closely with our brand team to ensure that the brand principles are translated into the products we design.
• Collaborate with design specialists.
• Participate with research and strategy to generate and evaluate design opportunities, and test solutions through storyboards and prototypes.
• Collaborate directly with and present to key client team members.
• Work hand-in-hand with engineers and product team members to foster innovation and ensure feasibility and fidelity of implementation.
• If desired, you have the opportunity to coach and mentor other designers.
• Share your knowledge and approach to the craft with the broader design team at Metalab and the wider industry.

Requirements

• Experience working in collaborative, highly iterative, cross-functional teams, sharing work daily.
• Proven experience across UX, UI, and Motion design at a senior level, with a portfolio that showcases your range, typically T-shaped with your core discipline being UI and Motion design.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, enabling effective critique and design discussions, with a demonstrated ability to communicate design rationale and strategy effectively.
• A track record of working across the product development cycle, from initial vision and discovery through to detailed design execution.

Nice to haves

3D skills are a bonus