User Experience
Remote - USA
About You:
You’re looking to join a customer and product focused company where you’ll support a team of passionate individuals as you deliver the best product possible to help a mission driven organization Grow Better. You’re seeking an opportunity where you’ll:
- Have a “seat at the table” from Day 1. Your partners and peers know what you do, greatly value it, and expect you to have strong opinions.
- Co-own a significant part of the product with your partners and you’ll all have the autonomy you need to drive its strategy and vision.
About the Role:
We’re seeking a highly skilled and visionary Principal Product Designer to join our Growth team and lead design for a critical 0-to-1 initiative. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of HubSpot by taking a nascent idea from concept to reality. You will be instrumental in defining the user experience, driving product vision, and collaborating closely with product managers and engineers to build innovative solutions for an important segment of our customer base.
As a Principal Designer, you will be a key driver in navigating ambiguity, rapidly iterating, and validating design hypotheses. Your expertise in high-fidelity prototyping will be essential in communicating concepts, testing assumptions, and ensuring a seamless user experience. This role needs a proactive, strategic thinker who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. We’re looking for someone passionate about developing high-fidelity prototypes to help teams and customers visualize the impact of this new experience.
What You'll Do:
- Lead Design for a 0-1 Initiative: Drive the end-to-end design process for a new product experience, from initial concept to launch and beyond
- Collaborate across product lines and initiatives to achieve results: This is a “glue” role where you’ll be a driving force to delivering value
- Rapid Prototyping: Create interactive prototypes using tools like Figma to effectively communicate design concepts and test user interactions
- User Research & Validation: Conduct user research, synthesize findings, and translate insights into actionable design decisions
- Strategic Vision: Collaborate with product managers and engineers to define the product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with user needs and business goals
- Design System Contribution: Contribute to and evolve HubSpot’s design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across new products
- Mentorship & Leadership: Provide mentorship and guidance to junior designers, fostering a culture of design excellence
- Navigate Ambiguity: Effectively work within a 0-1 environment, defining processes, operating systems and delivering results in the face of uncertainty
What We're Looking For:
- Significant experience and impact in product design, with a strong portfolio showcasing your craft work. You’ve worked in ambiguous environments and thrive when you can bring clarity via your designs.
- Experience designing for AI technologies and design paradigms
- Experience and a passion for building high-fidelity prototypes and interaction design.
- Proven ability to lead design for 0-1 initiatives or early-stage products.
- Deep understanding of user-centered design principles and practices.
- Strong understanding of user research methodologies and the ability to translate research into design decisions.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex design concepts and rationale.
- Experience working in a fast-paced ambiguous environment.
- Proficiency with design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Framer, Adobe Creative Suite).
- Familiarity with front-end development concepts (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) to facilitate collaboration with engineers
- Fluency in applying modern web and mobile design patterns to designs
- Must be located in the Eastern or Central Time Zone of the United States.
About UX at HubSpot
Our UX team is a passionate and diverse group of ~300 product designers, content designers, researchers, and design ops folks globally who build consumer-grade experiences while solving enterprise-level problems. We’re set up to work as equal partners to our peers in product management and engineering. We design and deliver a crafted experience to our customers by setting a high bar on ease of use. We’re investing deeply in building whole and healthy UX teams across all of our disciplines so we can better solve problems for our customers.
We involve our customers in every step of our development process. We strive to deliver a B2B product that’s just as easy to use as the best B2C products on the market. When our customers grow, we grow, too.
Want to know more about product design at HubSpot?
- The possibilities of “and” — prioritizing usability alongside feature growth
- By the people, for the people: keeping your design system evergreen
- See all HubSpot UX blog posts
One more thing you should know…
There’s a lot of research showing how marginalized groups of people may not apply for jobs unless they meet 100% (or more!) of the qualifications. We also know that many UX folks come from backgrounds with different experiences that might not seem “standard”—and that’s okay! We really value people who bring unique perspectives and add new knowledge to our team.
You might not feel like you “check all the boxes” as you read this job post, but we hope you’ll apply anyway because we’ll take great care in working with you. 🧡
Pay & Benefits
The cash compensation below includes base salary, on-target commission for employees in eligible roles, and annual bonus targets under HubSpot’s bonus plan for eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation, some roles are eligible to participate in HubSpot’s equity plan to receive restricted stock units (RSUs). Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are tailored to your skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons.
This resource will help guide how we recommend thinking about the range you see. Learn more about HubSpot’s compensation philosophy.
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Annual Cash Compensation Range:
$210,000—$336,000 USD
