Principal Product Designer

Guild.ai

Principal Product Designer at Guild designing AI-native product experiences and influencing product direction for enterprise customers and developers. Involves collaboration with engineers and a focus on design quality.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $240,000 - $290,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Bring a strong, opinionated perspective on how the product should serve our users and where it should go - actively shaping product direction, roadmap priorities, and PMF decisions alongside product and engineering, not just executing on them
Design across the full product experience for two distinct but connected audiences enterprise buyers who need clarity and confidence to adopt, and developers and technical users who demand precision, depth, and tools that respect their workflow
Own problems end-to-end within your product team, from early discovery and problem framing through prototyping, validation, and shipping production-quality solutions
Translate complex AI infrastructure concepts - agents, observability, governance, deployment - into experiences that feel intuitive and trustworthy regardless of the user's technical depth
Contribute to the design system by raising the quality bar on shared components, patterns, and interaction standards - thinking in systems, not one-offs

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of product design experience with a portfolio demonstrating strong craft, systems thinking, and the ability to simplify genuinely complex workflows
Already working in an AI-native way - AI tools are embedded in your process, not just something you're starting to explore
Experience building AI-powered design solutions or designing for AI-driven products
Fluent across web and mobile design with a strong design process and foundation - Figma, prototyping tools, and whatever else gets the idea across fastest. Design-led first, technical second
Technically fluent in complex product spaces - comfortable with front-end constraints, and has hands-on coding experience, whether production code or vibe coding to get ideas across
Low ego, high craft - you care about the work and you're energized by collaboration.
Bonus: Experience in AI infrastructure, developer tools, or enterprise SaaS
Bonus: Familiarity with agent-based systems, observability tooling, or deployment workflows
Bonus: Experience at a category-defining company in an emerging space
Bonus: Background at an early-stage company navigating PMF - comfortable with ambiguity, fast pivots, and a bias toward shipping and learning

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive base salary + meaningful equity + comprehensive benefits (health, dental, 401k, flexible PTO)

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Hard Skills & Tools

Product DesignSystems ThinkingAI Tools IntegrationWeb DesignMobile DesignPrototypingFront-End ConstraintsCoding ExperienceUser Experience DesignWorkflow Simplification

Soft Skills

CollaborationLow EgoHigh Craft