Principal Product Designer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 2, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 29, 2026. Rox scores B on the Alion truth index.
About the role
As our Principal Product Designer, you work out of our San Francisco office and lead all of product design at Rox, end to end. You take on the design team we have in place today and continue to scale the charter. The charter is making sure Rox remains a design first product company as we grow.
The challenge and the reward is doing it on the frontier of applied AI, fully integrated with the world's leading applied AI engineering minds, growth strategists, forward deployed engineers and operators.
This is a player coach role. You do the design work yourself and you lead the team. We are hiring at principal level, with a path to grow into Head of Design over time.
Logistics
Based in our San Francisco office, in the office five days a week
Reports to our head of product
What you will own
All of product design for the company, end to end
The current design team from day one, and scaling the charter from there
Keeping Rox a design first product company as the company grows
Working hand in hand with applied AI engineers, growth strategists, forward deployed engineers and operators
The design quality bar and design system across every product surface
What we are looking for
You live in San Francisco or will relocate, and you work from the office
You have led product design end to end at a product company, with a shipped portfolio to show for it
You have led and grown a design team, ideally by taking over an existing one
You have real experience designing AI or agent products
You can build a design first culture, not only run a design process
Strong signals
You have made engineers, growth and operators better by sitting inside their work, not handing off to them
You have taken a design team through fast change without losing people or the bar
You have strong taste, and can explain it in plain words to a non designer
Nice to haves
Early stage or high growth company experience
Hands on craft in prototyping with code or AI tools
What success looks like in year one
The design team is settled, stable and clear on direction
Rox is still a design first product company, and you can see it in what ships
Design is embedded with applied AI engineering, growth and forward deployed teams, with clear ways of working
A hiring plan for the design team is in place and the first key hires are made