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We pursue challenges that inspire us to build, create, and innovate.\nRelentless Curiosity. We seek to understand and improve our customers’ experience.\nSmart Risk-Taking. We transform risk into progress through data, experience, and intuition.\nFearless Ownership. We deliver what we promise and learn along the way.\nWe’re Looking For:\n We are seeking a Principal Product Designer with extensive experience in end-to-end product design, user-centered research, strategic design vision, and cross-functional leadership. As a Principal Product Designer, you'll be a key strategic leader on our product team, tackling complex enterprise problems and shaping the future direction of our user experience. This role is about driving product strategy and architectural design excellence. You'll lead end-to-end design initiatives, mentor designers, and partner closely with executive stakeholders, product managers, and engineers to align design vision with long-term business goals. While we have physical locations, we work remote, giving you the flexibility to do your best work from wherever you are.\nYou Are:\nA Leader. You independently lead high-impact design initiatives, defining design strategy and setting standards across multiple product areas.\nMentor-minded. You're a coach to other designers, providing constructive feedback and helping to grow the skills of your teammates.\nCommunicative. You can clearly articulate your design decisions, presenting your work and backing up your choices with insights and data. You can speak the language of product, engineering, and business.\nSimplify the complex: You have a proven track record of breaking down complicated workflows into simple, intuitive user experiences.\nStrategic. You don't just solve the problem in front of you; you think about the broader system and the long-term impact of your design choices.\nYou Will:\nTake ownership of the user experience for a specific product area, from concept to launch.\nConduct user research when necessary, including interviews and usability testing, to inform your designs.\nCreate design artifacts that build consensus - wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and high-fidelity mockups.\nCollaborate with engineers to ensure your designs are implemented to a high standard.\nContribute to and evolve our design system to ensure consistency and efficiency.\nChampion a user-centric design culture within the organization.\nWho You Will Work With:\n Reporting to the Director of Product Design, this role will collaborate regularly with Product Managers, Engineers, and Business Stakeholders to ensure user needs and business goals are met.\nPartner with cross-functional teams on a daily basis.\nMentor junior designers and contribute to design team growth.\nMust Haves:\n8+ years of experience as a Product Designer, with proven experience in senior or principal leadership roles.\nA strong portfolio showcasing your product design process and demonstrating your ability to solve complex problems on a variety of device types and surfaces.\nExpertise in design and prototyping tools.\nExperience designing for B2B or complex enterprise applications is a plus.\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills.\nA strong bias for action, self direction, and a knack for thriving in a fast-paced environment.\nNice to Haves:\nExperience designing for B2B or enterprise applications.\nPrior experience contributing to or managing design systems.\nFamiliarity with wholesale or automotive marketplaces.\n What We Offer:\nCompetitive pay\n\nMedical, dental, and vision benefits with employer HSA contributions (US) and FSA options (US)\n\nImmediately vested 401K (US) or RRSP (Canada) with company match\n\nPaid Vacation, Personal, and Sick Time\n\nPaid maternity and paternity leave (US)\n\nEmployer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, and AD&D (US)\n\nRobust Employee Assistance Program\n\nEmployer paid Leap into Service Day to volunteer\n\nTuition Reimbursement for eligible programs\n\nOpportunities to expand your skill set and share your knowledge across a publicly traded, global organization\n\nCompany culture of internal promotions, diverse career paths, and meaningful advancement\n\nSound like a match? 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