# Principal Product Designer

The Role We are looking for a Principal Product Designer to lead and grow a team of senior individual-contributor designers, shaping how creators discover, organize, and share content through Linktree. This is a player-coach role: you'll manage, coach, and develop a small team of senior designers while staying hands-on with design yourself, personally owning some of the hardest or most ambiguous problems. You'll set design vision and craft standards for your area, partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Marketing, and be accountable for both the quality of your team's work and your own. As the team scales, this role is on a path to grow into a broader leadership remit over time. As a member of the Design leadership team, you'll help define how Linktree scales design as the company grows. Why This Role Matters A consumer product at this scale is made or broken by design. The hard part isn't adding another pair of hands; it's the leadership to raise the whole team's ceiling - coaching senior designers, holding the craft bar, and turning scattered effort into shipped, coherent product. This role exists to be that multiplier: a player-coach close enough to the work to model the

- **Id**: 987252
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/linktree-principal-product-designer>
- **Role**: Design
- **Role family**: Design
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-11T15:49:15Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T20:15:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 59
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7211
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Home office, Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Creator & Fan Platforms, Consumer & Utility Software

## Company

- **Id**: 723180
- **Name**: Linktree
- **Domain**: linktree.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/linktree-2>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Gem

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 11
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 56
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 280000
- **Max**: 310000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 310000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 59

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-17T00:13:40Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 31
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.572
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 58
- **Expected fill days**: 56
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 310000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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