Principal Product Designer

$223,000 - $323,400/Yr

Salesforce - Indianapolis, IN

Full-time - Principal

Indianapolis, IN

Publishing Industries

About the position

Salesforce is seeking a Principal Product Designer to join our User Experience team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on both Enterprise and Consumer products, creating innovative design patterns and collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to bring your visions to life. This position is pivotal in shaping the user experience, focusing on solving meaningful problems while ensuring inclusivity and accessibility in design. You will lead the team in crafting and articulating the product vision, aligning it with clear goals and rationales. This requires expert visualization skills, thought leadership, empathy, and the ability to work closely with product and technology partners. As a Principal Product Designer, you will immerse yourself in all aspects of end-to-end experience design. This includes utilizing storyboards, journey maps, flow diagrams, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups to effectively communicate design ideas and direction. Our UX teams aspire to create products that users love, enhancing productivity for salespeople, empowering marketers, and enriching developers' applications. Behind each product is a dedicated team of talented UX designers and engineers, driven by the power of design to build integrated and ethical experiences that foster strong relationships between users and their customers. In this role, you will be responsible for communicating clear and compelling ideas to a wide range of stakeholders through documentation, reviews, and presentations. You will serve as a bridge connecting design, product, engineering, and marketing teams, working closely with product owners, engineers, and user research to create a cohesive vision for the product area. You will oversee multiple web and mobile application features, ensuring that designs adhere to and extend the existing style guide, while generating detailed final design specifications that inspire accurate developer builds. Additionally, you will mentor new design staff and advocate for accessibility, encouraging product and engineering management to prioritize accessible features and bug fixes.

Responsibilities

• Communicate clear and compelling ideas to stakeholders through documentation, reviews, and presentations.
• Serve as a bridge connecting design, product, engineering, and marketing teams.
• Work closely with product owners, engineers, and user research to create a vision for the product area.
• Oversee multiple web and mobile application features, interfaces, and experiences.
• Create designs that adhere to and extend the existing style guide.
• Generate detailed final design specs that inspire accurate developer builds.
• Work with developers and quality experts to deliver a polished final product.
• Promote and educate others on new interface guidelines and design patterns.
• Mentor new design staff.
• Set the vision for a product's creative identity and guide the team through its implementation.
• Create inclusive designs for all users and advocate for accessibility.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience designing and delivering products from start to finish as part of a cross-functional team.
• Deep understanding of user-centered design methods and best practices.
• Demonstrated desire to continually improve on processes.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, agile environment while producing great design work on tight deadlines.
• Ability to explore ideas, persuade others, and build consensus on fast-moving projects with varying degrees of ambiguity.
• Self-motivation; ability to produce results both independently and as part of a team.
• Strong communication and active listening skills, with an ability to build and develop close, trusting relationships.
• Experience using multiple approaches, including analytics and user research, to drive decisions and develop product iterations.
• Ability to distill and reframe problems, then define a framework for resolution, generating clear, elegant solutions for complex challenges.
• Systems thinking; ability to see a project's larger ecosystem, focusing on solutions that improve the entire user flow.
• Demonstrated behaviors, attitudes, actions, and judgments that inspire employees to follow and other leaders to trust.
• Expert knowledge of current design tools such as Figma, along with an ability to quickly learn new tools as they emerge.
• Experience developing software that is global in reach, universal in design, and designed for users of multiple languages and abilities.
• Experience designing and thinking in design systems, not just single-purpose apps.
• An internal compass that points toward ethics and equality, and the conviction to speak up when veering off course.
• BA/BS or MA/MS in a design-related field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $223,000 to $323,400.
• Incentive compensation and equity opportunities.
• Comprehensive health benefits.
• Employee resource groups and inclusive benefits.
• Professional development opportunities.