Principal Product Designer

Very

Principal Product Designer creating scalable design solutions and guiding teams at Very. Collaborating across different functions to deliver impactful user experiences in technology.

Posted 6/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $160,000 - $170,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Shape the work before it starts.
Partner with sales through pre-sales and scoping.
Act as a first point of contact for clients and delivery teams.
Do the work. UX, UI, interactive prototyping, research, data visualization, and design systems.
Run discovery workshops and alignment sessions.
Facilitate feedback with clients and their users.
Partner closely with engineering.
Make sure design QA happens.
Set the bar for everyone else.
Define the processes and craft standards the team works from, and make sure they're held across projects.
Build the tooling that makes the team faster and better in an AI-enabled world.
Mentor designers and lift the craft of the people around you.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A minimum of 5 years in a design lead role, setting direction on projects.
A track record of launching real products, not just polished concepts.
Zero-to-one and incremental work both.
A history of mentoring designers and raising the craft of a team, not just shipping your own work.
A point of view on where AI belongs in a design practice, and the drive to build the tools that put it there.
Communication above all. Writing matters, but what matters more is your ability to speak, articulate your thinking, and carry a room.
Self-direction and ownership. You scope your work, manage its blast radius, and know when to push back or say no.
Comfort with ambiguity, at both the design and business layer.
Design systems thinking as a core competency.

Benefits

Comp & perks

401k match
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
$200/mo cell/internet stipend
$600/yr home office equipment stipend
Paid parental leave (95th percentile in the U.S.)
Continuing education stipend ($2,500/yr after one year)
Loaned MacBook Pro and other necessary equipment

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Hard Skills & Tools

UX designUI designinteractive prototypingdata visualizationdesign systemsdesign QAzero-to-one designincremental designmentoringAI in design

Soft Skills

communicationself-directionownershiparticulationcomfort with ambiguitycollaborationfeedback facilitationleadershipprocess definitionteam building