Principal Product Designer, Core Canvas
MURAL
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $184,000 - $230,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Deliver world-class, high-fidelity design for new and existing products, from early concept to production.
- Contribute to and expand Mural’s design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across experiences.
- Drive visual clarity, motion, and interaction rigor across flows and components, balancing usability and delight.
- Explore and define next-generation interactions for visual collaboration, whiteboarding, and shared workspaces, then break this vision down into achievable milestones.
- Work closely with engineers to ensure high-quality implementation and maintain design integrity through launch.
- Create prototypes that push design thinking, helping the organization visualize what’s next.
- Model design excellence for peers, mentoring others in visual craft, systems design, and conceptual development.
- Partner with design systems, research, and engineering teams to elevate quality and create unified experiences.
- Influence product strategy through design-led exploration and storytelling that clarifies opportunity spaces.
- Champion accessibility, internationalization, and emotional engagement as core aspects of product design.
- Reframe problems and connect dots across product areas, designing beyond feature asks to improve whole journeys.
- Lead and facilitate workshops or design sprints to drive alignment and accelerate strategic decision-making.
- Collaborate with product, research, and data partners to define success metrics and evaluate impact.
- Advocate through example for design’s role in shaping product vision, not just execution.
Requirements
- 10+ years of product design experience with a focus on complex desktop or enterprise applications.
- Proven ability to contribute to high-quality design systems and product experiences at scale.
- Exceptional craft: visual clarity, spacing, motion, and interaction polish are second nature.
- Strong systems thinking: understands how design decisions cascade across flows, surfaces, and user journeys.
- Experience designing for both enterprise and consumer audiences, balancing complexity with clarity.
- Deep empathy for diverse, global users and experience designing for accessibility, personalization, and inclusivity.
- Curiosity and proactive problem solving: you explore edge cases, anticipate constraints, and think beyond the immediate brief.
- Experience working cross-functionally in highly collaborative, iterative environments.
- Experience designing collaboration or canvas-based applications, including nuanced 2D/3D interactions.
- Background in AI-assisted or human–machine collaboration design.
- Experience with free-form ideation tools or creativity support software.
- History of leading greenfield or innovation projects from vision to shipped product.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
- Bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
product designdesign systemsvisual clarityinteraction designprototypingaccessibility design2D interactions3D interactionsAI-assisted designhuman-machine collaboration
Soft skills
mentoringsystems thinkingempathyproblem solvingcollaborationcuriositystrategic decision-makingstorytellingdesign excellencefacilitation