Principal Product Designer, CaptivateIQ
$203.9-298.7k
3 days a week in office
Commission management platform
Be an early applicant
Commission management platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$203.9-298.7k
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring joy and transparency to sales performance management.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of experience designing B2B SaaS products, ideally enterprise, platform, or systems-heavy software
- Demonstrated success leading company-critical, high-impact initiatives as an individual contributor
- Exceptional strength in UX, UI, system design, and interaction design, with a track record of setting quality standards others follow
- Deep product, domain, and business acumen, with the ability to influence strategy and connect design decisions to commercial outcomes
- Experience designing complex, data-heavy, workflow-driven systems at enterprise scale
- Proven ability to coach and elevate other design leaders, including senior- and Staff-level designers
- Comfort operating with high autonomy, navigating ambiguity, and creating clarity where none exists
- Exceptional written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with the presence and confidence to influence at the executive level
- Strong judgment, leadership presence, and ability to drive alignment and accountability without formal authority
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Principal Product Designer to lead design within CaptivateIQ’s Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) product line
- This is a senior individual contributor role for a designer who thrives in complexity, owns large problem spaces end to end, and leads through influence, judgment, and craft—setting vision and shaping product direction across teams and the broader organization
- You’ll operate with high autonomy and partner closely with Product, Engineering, CX, and executive leadership to solve complex, high-impact problems and establish what great looks like for enterprise-scale systems
- Define and drive the design vision for a major product area, aligning closely with Product and Engineering leadership
- Lead and guide design across multiple teams, reviewing and approving work, and setting the bar for craft, systems thinking, and execution
- Identify and lead the most complex, high-impact initiatives across the product and organization, shaping new problems and opportunities that drive customer and business impact
- Design and evolve foundational systems, architectures, and reusable patterns, championing platform and systems thinking to ensure cohesion and quality
- Act as a force multiplier by mentoring designers and helping teams raise their execution bar over time
- Co-lead with senior Product and Engineering leaders to influence product strategy and prioritization
- Improve how teams work together, proactively identifying gaps in execution, collaboration, or quality and helping teams course-correct
- Stay current on industry trends and emerging technologies (including AI), using that insight to raise the bar for CaptivateIQ’s product experiences
- Communicate clearly at the org and company level, including writing crisp documents that articulate vision, direction, and tradeoffs
- Incentive compensation is where business intent becomes reality, where complex rules directly affect how people are paid, how companies build trust, and how revenue teams stay motivated
- As CaptivateIQ evolves rapidly and embraces increasingly sophisticated, AI-driven workflows, this space continues to grow in complexity and strategic importance
- As a Principal Product Designer, you’ll help define what’s next for this system, and for how powerful enterprise platforms should feel, scale, and evolve
- Your work will shape the foundations of the product, set the quality bar for the organization, and influence how teams across CaptivateIQ design and build
Application process
- Please note that we’ll only ask for more sensitive personal information in connection with background checks after an offer is made
Our take
CaptivateIQ is an incentive compensation platform using AI to automate commission workflows. Businesses spent an exorbitant amount each year managing commission processes, so the company's no-code SaaS is a welcome overhaul for the sector.
CaptivateIQ's platform improves both the efficiency and accuracy of existing legacy processes, serving any type of organization that utilizes a performance-based compensation plan. The founding team has real experience with the cumbersome process of managing commission payments, which is why they chose to target this particular problem.
CaptivateIQ has been smart in building a more generic product, allowing it to attract big-name clients from different sectors. This broad customer acquisition, atop regular funding injections, has helped CaptivateIQ reach Unicorn status. The company continues to add to its offering, for example with the launch of its AI-powered payee experience in 2025.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$100m
SERIES C
Apr 2021
$46m
SERIES B
Total funding: $159.2m
Company benefits
- 100% of medical, dental, and vision covered including 75% for dependents
- Unlimited vacation days and quarterly mental health days so you can recharge
- $1,000 to explore your dream destination on your work anniversary
- $500 annual professional development stipend to continue growing and learning
- $500 home office stipend to decorate your home office
- $1,000 caretaker stipend to make sure our parent colleagues are being supported
- Virtual team lunches to keep you connected
- 401k plan to participate in and save towards the future
- Newest hardware and tools for the job
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support and celebrate the shared identities and life experiences of communities within CaptivateIQ
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mark Schopmeyer
(Co-CEO & Co-founder)Former Investment Professional at Carrick Capital Partners and Finance and Strategy Manager at BrightRoll. Former Investment Banking Analyst at Jefferies & Company and Lehman Brothers. BA in Business Administration from Berkley School of Business.
Conway Teng
(Co-CEO & Co-founder)Former employee at Gusto in Finance and Business Operations. Previously Head of Growth at OrderAhead. Founder of FiveStars. Graduated from Berkley.
Hubert Wong
(Principal Engineer & Co-founder)Was CTO of the company for 6 years. Former Senior Software Engineer at Vungle, OpenTable and CoPilot Labs. BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berkley.
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