Principal Design & Research Head
Core
Lead a team of researchers, designers, and content writers to conduct diverse product research and design activities, fostering agile practices and driving role acceleration with AI for user experience across the product development lifecycle.
Role type
Principal Design & Research Head (Strategic Leadership & Team Management)
Builds
V1 platforms and products, end-to-end design processes, and strategic research and design roadmaps.
Domain
Product Design, User Experience, Generative & Evaluative Research
Deliverable
Production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Team leadership and mentorship, stakeholder alignment and partnership building, strategic roadmap definition, translating insights into product strategy, defining success metrics, AI integration for UX research and design, end-to-end design process execution, diverse research methodologies (ethnography, field studies, usability studies, concept validation, user journey mapping, surveys, scorecards, competitive analysis), wireframing, prototyping, visual design, product/service/game shipping experience.
Preferred skills
Experience in designing experiences across multiple endpoints, demonstrated experience using design thinking to solve problems.
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary team of user researchers and designers, establish trust and alignment with Engineering, Product, and Business Partners, drive AI adoption for UX research and design, develop key partnerships to deliver strategic roadmaps, translate research insights into product and design strategy, define and track success outcomes using research and design metrics.
Seniority
Principal, strategic leadership with hands-on team management
