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Customer.io powers automated communication that people actually want to receive. We help teams send smarter, more relevant messages using real-time behavioral data.\nAbout the role\nHi, my name is Matt Wensing, VP of Product & Design at Customer.io, and I'm looking for a Principal Product Designer. Principal Product Designer is the highest individual contributor design role at Customer.io. This person shapes the design vision for the company and influences how design is practiced here - through their own craft, through the standards their work sets, and through the partnerships they build with product and engineering leadership.\nCustomer.io is in a transformational moment: executing against a strong current product while redesigning what the product is and how it's experienced by a new generation of builders. This role has to straddle both - delivering quality and coherence in what exists today while driving the vision for where things go.\nThis is not a management role, but it's a leadership role in the fullest sense. Their influence is felt company-wide - in the product, in the culture, and in who we hire.\nAbout you\nYou have a fully formed point of view on how AI changes what software means - for the people who use it, the people who build it, and the agents that increasingly operate it. You have the conviction to put that view to work across a product and an organization. You lead through clarity and example, give candid feedback that improves the work, and operate with humility and curiosity even outside your own expertise.\nWhat we value\nLeads through clarity and example, not control. You shape culture through your own practice - not top-down direction.\nCandid craft feedback. You give feedback that improves the work, even when it's uncomfortable.\nHumility and curiosity. You operate with openness, especially in areas outside your expertise.\nAmplifying others. You raise the impact of people across the whole company - not just the design team.\nBias for craft. You stay close to the work by choice, and that proximity is how you lead.\nSome things you'll do\nShape and communicate a design vision for Customer.io 's product as a whole - the coherent, long-range picture of what excellent looks like for our customers, brought into rooms where product direction gets set\nDrive the strategic direction of Pluma, our design system - architecture, evolution, deprecation decisions, and the principles that govern how it scales\nClose the gap between design intent and shipped product - stay close enough to implementation to catch divergence, and fix it directly when code is the right tool\nDesign for builder and developer audiences - CLI-native flows, API-first onboarding, and interfaces built for people who type before they click\nLead the design of agentic and human-AI surfaces across the product - develop the philosophy and advocate for the standards\nPartner with product and engineering leadership on product strategy - bring design into the conversation before direction is set, not after\nDevelop and advocate for Customer.io 's AI product design philosophy as a framework the whole team builds from\nLead design review for major initiatives and bring accountability for quality and coherence across what ships\nDevelop Staff designers through direct mentorship, critique, and the clarity of your own example\nContribute to hiring and calibration - assess candidates with conviction and help the team develop a shared language for what excellent looks like\nWhat we're looking for\n10+ years of product design experience with a portfolio demonstrating design vision and organizational impact, not just individual craft\nTrack record of shaping design direction at the company level - influenced what gets built and why, not just how it looks\nDesigned for developer and builder audiences - CLI, API-first onboarding, or infrastructure-native products\nDeveloped point of view on AI and agentic product design - has shipped AI-native interfaces and can articulate a philosophy on interaction models for agentic and delegated use\nContributed to a design system at the strategic level - shaped what it should be and shouldn't be, and advocated for those decisions over time\nOperates with influence without authority - track record of aligning product, engineering, and exec leadership around a design direction without a management title\nHas raised the craft bar at an organizational level - through critique culture, standards, and the example others internalize\nExecutive-level communication - connects design decisions to customer impact, product differentiation, and business outcomes\nB2B SaaS depth - understands complex, data-heavy products and has opinions about where the interaction model breaks\nCompensation & Benefits\nWe believe in transparency. The starting salary for this role is $245k-$276k USD, depending on experience and subject to market-rate adjustment. In addition to base salary, this role includes an equity grant in the form of stock options, so you share in the success you help build.\nWe know our people are what make us great, and we're committed to taking great care of them. Our inclusive benefits package supports your well-being and growth, including 100% coverage of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and supplemental insurance premiums for you and your family. We also offer 16 weeks of paid parental leave, unlimited PTO, stipends for remote work and wellness, a professional development budget, and more.\nSee full benefits here →\nOur Process\nNo gotchas, no trick questions - just a clear, human process designed to help both of us make an informed decision.\n30 minute call with Recruiter\n45 minute call and portfolio review with Hiring Manager\n30 minute call with cross-functional partner\n60 minute design case call with members of the design & tech team\nAll final candidates will be asked to complete a background check and employment verifications as part of our pre-employment process.\nCustomer.io recognizes the stifling impact of systemic injustice on diverse communities. We commit to using our influence to increase inclusion and equity within the tech industry. 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