Principal Product Designer, Metalab

• 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

Desirable

• As a Principal Product Designer, you’ll lead fully within the work, constantly seeking opportunities to elevate design quality and expand the skillsets of those around you
• Joining a team of the most senior design practitioners at Metalab, you’ll be expected to operate across multiple creative disciplines, delivering exceptional work on the most challenging projects
• Often, you’ll lead in defining the product experience, translating the intention of the product strategy and the character and emotion of the brand into thoughtful, useful, and lovable products
• 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