Principal UX Designer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential consumer products company in a major digital transformation. Our client is repositioning their entire e-commerce platform around a new strategic direction — and they need a Principal UX Designer to lead the design of that rebuild from the ground up.

This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the Head of Product Management & UX. You'll be responsible for translating executive vision into design direction concrete enough for Product and Engineering teams to execute against. This isn't about building consensus for change — the mandate already exists. Your job is to define what it looks like and see it through to launch.

This is the rare opportunity where a designer gets meaningful creative latitude on a real business with millions of customers and a working commerce engine. You'll hold the strategic direction in one hand and ship-ready designs in the other.

Responsibilities

• Define the vision and strategy for the core e-commerce experience in partnership with senior product leadership, establishing design principles that hold the rebuild together
• Lead design direction for homepage, category, search, product detail, cart, and checkout flows — owning how they connect end-to-end
• Create design system patterns that enable consistency across teams and make it easier for Engineering to build against your work
• Use AI prototyping tools weekly to put real, interactive experiences in front of stakeholders early when decisions are still cheap to change
• Participate in executive leadership reviews of the live customer experience, bringing the design perspective into strategic conversations and turning feedback into prioritized work
• Mentor other designers on the team, raise the craft bar, and help build a design practice where strong talent wants to work
• Make independent design decisions on direction while escalating cross-system trade-offs appropriately

What We're Looking For

Required:

• Proven experience leading a major e-commerce platform rebuild — you've taken a real consumer shopping experience apart and put it back together
• Deep e-commerce design expertise at scale, including merchandising, search, and subscription mechanics
• Ability to hold multi-quarter initiatives and two-week sprints simultaneously — you sequence work so the business keeps running during the rebuild
• Active use of AI prototyping tools in your current workflow — you know what today's tools can and can't do
• Experience presenting to and advising senior executives on trade-offs, taking hard feedback, and changing minds through better work on screen
• Strong mentorship skills and ability to elevate other designers without formal authority
• Exceptional craft across interaction design, information architecture, visual design, and systems thinking
• Advanced proficiency in Figma and modern design tooling
• Understanding of technical constraints and build costs — you design with engineering reality in view

Preferred:

• Experience designing for subscription or replenishment commerce models
• Background in health, wellness, CPG, or sustainability categories
• Experience building or rebuilding design systems that engineering teams actually adopted
• Public company or turnaround environment experience where pace and scrutiny are high
• Research fluency — comfortable running your own studies when needed

How We Work With You

Candidates apply directly through Get A Job.ai. Our talent team will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and fit for the role. Qualified candidates are then submitted to our client for consideration. We manage the process end-to-end and provide guidance at each stage.

Please do not contact the client directly. All communication should go through Get A Job.ai to ensure your candidacy is properly represented.

Pay

Pay via Get A Job.ai: $180,000–$210,000 USD annually

This is a full-time, exempt position. Remote work is available for candidates based in California, Maine, Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, Colorado, Washington, Illinois, New York, Missouri, and Massachusetts. The role includes eligibility for annual incentive compensation and equity participation.

Get A Job.ai is an equal opportunity recruiter. We welcome candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.