Experience Design Principal

Slalom; California; On-site; USD 112,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off & holidays

401(k) with match

Health, dental, vision coverage

Disability insurance

Well-being reimbursement

Job summary

Slalom is seeking a Senior Consultant or Principal Agentic Designer to shape the next era of digital product innovation. You will lead design engineering efforts, build interfaces with agentic tools, and ensure strong collaboration across product, design, and engineering teams.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in product/design engineering, a strong Figma/design systems background, and experience partnering with product owners in Agile settings. Compensation aligns with seniority and location.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product design, UX design, or design engineering.
• Portfolio demonstrating systems-level thinking and GenAI processes.
• Deep expertise in Figma and design systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead design engineering execution on accelerated product builds and participate in innovation workshops.
• Build production-quality interfaces using agentic coding assistants, bridging prototype and code teams.
• Leverage context engineering systems for complex engagements: layered memory systems and shared project context.
• Collaborate deeply with development teams as a true cross-functional partner.
• Own product design direction across complex engagements from specs to interaction and visual design.
• Steward design system integrity across large, multi-team builds.
• Drive iterative testing programs using real user data.
• Serve as a senior design voice in client relationships and VP-level planning.
• Mentor and elevate the design craft of Design Engineers and junior teammates.

Skills

Agentic coding

Design systems

Figma

GenAI design

UX design

Agile collab

Git workflows

Cross-functional

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Cline

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Are you a designer who can read and write code? Have you been expanding your own skills in design, prompt and context engineering? Do you lead with deep design craft, earn trust across product and engineering, and still roll up your sleeves to build? Do you look at the way teams collaborate today and already see what it needs to become?

Our experience design team believes that this is the moment in which design takes its next major step forward in creating experiences that are measured in customer value vs technological complexity.

We are seeking a Senior Consultant or Principal Agentic Designer to help define and lead the next era of digital product innovation at Slalom. This is a product design role with advanced design engineering capabilities that will work with our growing team of agentic designers to showcase what’s possible when design craft meets AI-assisted iteration and speed.

Your ability to drive design with new skills while collaborating with client and Slalom teams will help you grow as a leader in the field during this critical junction for design.

What You'll Do

• Lead design engineering execution on accelerated product builds and participate in innovation workshops
• Build production-quality interfaces using agentic coding assistants, bridging the gap between prototype and the foundational code engineering teams build from
• Leverage context engineering systems for complex engagements: layered memory systems, structured project context, and shared documentation that keeps product, design, and engineering working from a single source of truth
• Collaborate deeply with development teams throughout delivery as a true cross-functional partner
• Own product design direction across complex, cross-functional engagements spanning the creation of specifications through interaction and visual design
• Steward design system integrity across large, multi-team product builds, ensuring coherence at scale
• Drive iterative testing programs that evolve designs based on real user data, not assumptions
• Serve as a senior design voice in client relationships, VP-level conversations, and cross-functional planning
• Mentor and elevate the design craft of Design Engineers, Product Designers, and junior team members

What You Bring

• Demonstrated expertise building production-quality applications using agentic coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, GitHub Copilot)
• Has implemented and leveraged structured documentation that allows AI assistants to maintain persistent, shared context across disciplines at the program level
• Strong command of Git workflows, IDEs, and deployment platforms; comfortable contributing to production codebases
• 5+ years of experience in product design, UX design, or design engineering (professional services experience preferred)
• A portfolio demonstrating systems-level thinking, GenAI processes, design craft, and shipping velocity across multiple product types
• Deep expertise in Figma and design systems at scale
• Proven experience working in close partnership with product owners and engineering leads in Agile delivery environments

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

About Us

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact.

What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That’s why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.

Compensation and Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that includemeaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary rang es: The targeted base salary pay range for Senior Consultant in San Diego and Orange County is $112,000 to $141,000 and for Principal Consultant in San Diego and Orange County is $142,000 to $178,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus . Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at: [e-mail].

EEO and Accommodations

Slalomisanequalopportunityemployerandiscommittedtoattracting,developingandretaininghighlyqualifiedtalentwhoempowerourinnovativeteamsthroughuniqueperspectivesandexperiences.Allqualifiedapplicantswillreceiveconsiderationforemploymentwithoutregardtorace,color,religion,sex,nationalorigin,disabilitystatus,protectedveterans’status,oranyothercharacteristicprotectedbyfederal,state,orlocallaws.Slalomwillalsoconsiderqualifiedapplicationswithcriminalhistories,consistentwithlegalrequirements.Slalomwelcomesandencouragesapplicationsfromindividualswithdisabilities.Reasonableaccommodationsareavailableforcandidatesduringallaspectsoftheselectionprocess.Pleaseadvisethetalentacquisitionteamorcontact [e-mail]tionsduringtheinterviewprocess.