Principle Product Designer

Principle Product Designer

Location: Charlotte, NC

Hybrid expectation: 3 days per week in office

Open for non-locals who can relocate

Job Description:

Shape Product Direction

• Translate validated opportunities into product experiences.
• Explore multiple solution directions before converging.
• Define future-state workflows and interaction models.
• Translate long-term vision into practical iterative experiences.
• Partner with Product, Discovery and Engineering before delivery.

Prototype & Validate

• Prototype to improve product decisions, not just communicate designs.
• Use AI to accelerate concept exploration and iteration.
• Choose the right fidelity for each decision.
• Validate concepts with users and stakeholders before engineering investment.
• Continuously improve Compass' prototyping practice.

Build Experience Foundations

• Evolve reusable interaction patterns and experience principles.
• Modernize visual language where it improves products.
• Grow the experience system from proven patterns.
• Promote consistency through reusable foundations.

Improve the Practice

• Improve Design Engineering collaboration.
• Recommend improvements to the design-to-production workflow.
• Evaluate emerging AI-enabled workflows.
• Coach designers and elevate product design practices.