Principal Product Designer (London / Dublin / Prague)

Overview

In this role, you will shape Productboard’s UX as the unified, AI-first product experience. You’ll define architecture, patterns, and design language that weave agentics, artifacts, and structured UI into one coherent product. You’ll lead end-to-end usability and set standards across teams, partnering with Product, Engineering, and the executive team. This is a high-impact, architecture-focused IC role with real decision rights and visible influence on the company’s design direction.

Pay / Benefits

• Stock options
• MacBook + 34″ monitor
• Work from home stipend
• Flexible working hours and home office
• Budget for online courses, books, and conferences
• 2 weeks of fully paid parental leave

Responsibilities

• Own UX and interaction architecture including information architecture, navigation, and object model to make Productboard feel like a single product
• Define interaction patterns for an AI-first product and decide when interfaces should be chat, generated artifacts, interactive UI, or conventional interfaces
• Standardize design patterns and codify them as product-wide standards to raise the bar across domains
• Set design direction and language, connect user insight with strategy, and present evidence-based direction to executives
• Raise end-to-end usability and cross-product coherence, championing consistency and driving fixes across teams
• Lead design critique, provide architectural guidance to senior designers, and mentor through pairing and coaching
• Personally carry the hardest design work at platform level including navigation and object-model redesigns, from concept to prototype to shipped product
• Prototype in code by default to settle debates and align stakeholders using working AI-enabled prototypes

Key requirements

• 8+ years in product design as a senior IC on complex products
• Systems thinker with ability to hold product structure in mind while drafting details
• Proven track record of elevating product usability and coherence
• Experience designing products where agents perform real work for users, including trust, control, and cold-start challenges
• AI-first approach with hands-on use of AI tools for research, prototyping, building, and analysis
• Excellent craft in interaction and visual design with ability to guide others
• Comfort with setting standards across teams and making principled, evidence-based trade-offs
• Ability to influence PMs and executives and to shape roadmaps with user insights

• strategic communications
• cross-functional collaboration
• low ego
• AI-first product design
• interaction design for chat, artifacts, and rich UI
• design systems and component architecture

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