Principal UX Architect — AI-First Product Systems

Productboard, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

MacBook + monitor

Work from home stipend

5 weeks vacation

Job summary

Productboard is seeking a Principal Product Designer to be the UX architect of our AI-first product. You will steer architecture, patterns, and design language across Spark and related experiences, ensuring coherence and high usability.

Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and executives to shape the product direction and deliver strong, usable experiences. You will prototype in code, define interaction patterns for AI-driven workflows, and mentor design teams to raise the bar on usability and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience as a senior IC on complex products.
• Experience designing AI-first products with agentic workflows.
• Ability to define architecture, patterns, and design language for a coherent product.

Responsibilities

• Own Productboard's UX and interaction architecture across Spark and AI features.
• Define interaction patterns for an AI-first product and determine when to use chat, UI, artifacts, or interfaces.
• Set design direction and language, codify patterns for team-wide consistency.
• Raise end-to-end usability and ensure cross-product coherence across launches.
• Lead design critique and mentor senior designers, guiding architectural decisions.

Skills

UX architecture

AI-first design

Design critique

Prototyping in code

Cross-functional leadership

System thinking

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

Productboard is seeking a Principal Product Designer to be the UX architect of our AI-first product. You will steer architecture, patterns, and design language across Spark and related experiences, ensuring coherence and high usability.

Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and executives to shape the product direction and deliver strong, usable experiences. You will prototype in code, define interaction patterns for AI-driven workflows, and mentor design teams to raise the bar on usability and