Experience Design Principal

Slalom; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Parental leave

401(k) match

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Well-being stipend

Discounted home insurance

Discounted auto insurance

Discounted pet insurance

Adoption assistance

Fertility assistance

Short/long-term disability

Job summary

Slalom is seeking a Senior Consultant or Principal Agentic Designer to define and lead a new era of digital product innovation. You will drive design with AI-assisted iteration, collaborating across product, design and engineering teams to deliver complex, high-velocity projects.

You will mentor designers and design engineers, steward design systems at scale, and engage in VP-level client conversations to shape strategy and outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product design, UX design, or design engineering (professional services experience preferred).
• Portfolio showing systems thinking, GenAI processes, design craft and velocity.
• Deep expertise in Figma and design systems at scale.
• Proven collaboration with product owners and engineering leads in Agile delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead design engineering execution on accelerated product builds and workshops.
• Build production-quality interfaces using agentic coding assistants and bridge to code teams.
• Use context engineering systems to keep product, design and engineering in sync.
• Collaborate as a true cross-functional partner with development teams.
• Own product design direction from specifications to interaction and visuals.
• Steward design system integrity across large multi-team builds.
• Drive iterative testing based on real user data.
• Mentor Design Engineers, Product Designers and junior staff.

Skills

Design leadership

Agentic design

Cross-functional

UX design

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Cline

GitHub Copilot

Git workflows

IDEs

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.