Principal Product Designer, Primer
$170k
Automating data analysis
Job no longer available
Automating data analysis
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$170k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make the world a safer place.
Role
Who you are
- You’re great at storytelling and pitching ideas. You’re able to think on your feet, not afraid to jump on a whiteboard (remotely or in person!), and love getting to great ideas in collaboration with others
- You’re a team player - you believe good ideas come from anywhere and want to bring the cross-functional team into the fold of the design process
- You’re comfortable advocating for what users need and working with engineering to come to alternative solutions when timelines and feasibility prove challenging
- Experience designing complex, information-dense enterprise software with a focus on scalability and usability
- Expertise in systems thinking to drive consistency across applications or ecosystems
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and design for emerging user needs in high-stakes environments
- 8+ years in product design, including experience in senior design roles
- Demonstrated success in leading significant design projects
- Strong skills in these areas:
- Data visualization (e.g., advanced charts, network graphs)
- Front-end prototyping and close collaboration with engineering
- Qualitative user research and applying findings to product design
- Facilitation of design workshops, discovery sessions and product scoping
What the job involves
- We’re expanding our user experience team to address new challenges and opportunities as we grow our product surface area and engage with an exciting set of new customers and users
- We are seeking a Principal Product Designer to drive holistic, forward-thinking design initiatives, bring a user-centered perspective to the cross functional team, and set a high bar for design excellence
- As a Principal Product Designer, you’ll collaborate across disciplines to define the future of our platform
- This role offers a chance to deeply influence both product direction and our design culture
- Guide Application-Level Design: Own the end-to-end design of critical features, systems, or entire product areas, ensuring cohesion and scalability. Collaborate with other designers, product managers, engineers and Go to Market to design intuitive and valuable experiences for our users
- Shape Product Strategy: Partner with cross-functional teams to define long-term vision and deliver high-quality solutions that meet user and business needs
- Work across the design team: Provide thoughtful feedback, share expertise, and foster growth across the design team
- Champion Discovery Research: Lead user research to deeply understand user needs, mental models, and workflows, informing product decisions
- Collaborate with Engineering: Pair with product managers and engineering and data science teams to prototype and iterate quickly, ensuring seamless implementation and testing of ideas
Our take
Primer is a leading technology company specializing in advanced machine learning. Since its founding, Primer has developed a suite of products built on a core set of computational engines: Structure, Ensemble, Event, Context, Difference, and Story. These engines form the foundation of Primer's analytic pipeline, enabling powerful document analysis and insight generation across multiple languages.
The modular architecture of Primer's platform allows for continuous development and improvement, providing customers with access to a diverse range of document types. By automating the extraction of information, large-scale, insight identification, and the generation of readable text and graphics, Primer makes complex data accessible and actionable.
This technology has been deployed by some of the world's largest government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and financial institutes. Its solutions have been used to address critical challenges, such as helping the Pentagon assess disinformation campaigns and identify Russian interference in Azerbaijan.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2023
$69m
SERIES D
Jun 2021
$110m
SERIES C
Total funding: $237.1m
Company benefits
- Health and wellness: Our comprehensive benefits prioritize the well-being of you and your family, offering premium medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. Additionally, our wellness initiatives encompass mental health support and fitness incentives
- Programs for parents: Birthing parents receive up to 18 weeks of fully paid leave, while non-birthing parents enjoy 8 weeks. We also provide coverage for in vitro fertilization and egg-freezing
- Home-office stipend: All new hires are offered stipends for home office setup and mobile phone and home internet expenses
- Flexible time off: We value rest and rejuvenation outside of work and offer generous and flexible time off in addition to 12 paid holidays
- Retirement/401K: Start now to save for your future. We offer financial benefits and services to give you financial peace of mind
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sean Moriarty
(CEO)Lead Independent Director at Eventbrite and Member of the Board of Directors at CoachArt. Former CEO and Board Director at Leaf Group.
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