Principal Architect, AI Product Design & Vision

Global Gainsight Admins Community; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Slack VP, Product Design (Individual Contributor; Principal Architect) to define and lead the design vision for the AI Operating System, collaborating with product and engineering leadership to prototype and shape Slack’s future. You will craft elegant, high-impact experiences at scale that empower millions of users daily.

You will report to the SVP & Chief Design Officer, shaping strategy, executing with craft, and influencing across the organization while driving the

Qualifications

• 12+ years of product design experience at significant scale.
• Portfolio showing visionary concept work and executional craft.
• Ability to define product direction through design.
• Experience designing consumer-grade experiences in complex contexts.
• Track record influencing product strategy at leadership level without hierarchy.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling; simplify complex ideas.

Responsibilities

• Vision & Concept Design: Define and prototype the long-range design vision for Slack's agentic future, producing seminal concepts and vignettes.
• Executional Craft: Hands-on design at the highest level, pixel-perfect and deeply considered, using tools (AI, code, prototyping) to turn ideas into working experiences.
• Strategic Design Influence: Shape product strategy with leadership to influence decisions at SVP/C-level.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Align across product, engineering, research, and brand without formal authority.
• Simplification as a Design Discipline: Lead efforts to radically simplify Slack's current experience toward an AI-first paradigm.
• Emerging Interaction Patterns: Invent new patterns for agentic UX and dynamic UI generation.
• User Advocacy at Scale: Champion the enterprise user under pressure and finite resources.

Skills

Vision & Concept Design

Executional Craft

Strategic Design Influence

Cross-Functional Leadership

Simplification as Design

Emerging Interaction Patterns

User Advocacy at Scale

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Slack VP, Product Design (Individual Contributor; Principal Architect) to define and lead the design vision for the AI Operating System, collaborating with product and engineering leadership to prototype and shape Slack’s future. You will craft elegant, high-impact experiences at scale that empower millions of users daily.

You will report to the SVP & Chief Design Officer, shaping strategy, executing with craft, and influencing across the organization while driving the