Principal Product Designer

About the role

Join CaptivateIQ as a Principal Product Designer, where you'll lead design for our Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) product line. In this senior individual contributor role, you'll define and drive the design vision, guide design across multiple teams, and shape new problems and opportunities that drive customer and business impact. You'll also mentor designers, influence product strategy, and improve team collaboration. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on our product and organization. Key missions: Definir y dirigir la visión de diseño para un área de producto importante, alineándose estrechamente con el liderazgo de Producto e Ingeniería.. Liderar y guiar el diseño a través de múltiples equipos, revisando y aprobando el trabajo, y estableciendo el estándar para la calidad, el pensamiento sistémico y la ejecución.. Identificar y liderar las iniciativas más complejas y de mayor impacto en el producto y la organización, dando forma a nuevos problemas y oportunidades que impulsan el impacto en el cliente y el negocio. Profile: - Comfort operating with high autonomy, navigating ambiguity, and creating clarity where none exists - Exceptional written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with the presence and confidence to influence at the executive level - Demonstrated success leading company-critical, high-impact initiatives as an individual contributor - Experience designing complex, data-heavy, workflow-driven systems at enterprise scale - Deep product, domain, and business acumen, with the ability to influence strategy and connect design decisions to commercial outcomes - Strong judgment, leadership presence, and ability to drive alignment and accountability without formal authority - 12+ years of experience designing B2B SaaS products, ideally enterprise, platform, or systems-heavy software - Proven ability to coach and elevate other design leaders, including senior- and Staff-level designers - Exceptional strength in UX, UI, system design, and interaction design, with a track record of setting quality standards others follow