Principal Product Designer

Deel; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Remote work flexibility

WeWork access (optional)

Job summary

Deel is reshaping the way global teams are paid and managed. As Principal Designer, you will partner with the Chief Design Officer to drive frontier design initiatives and orchestration across a coherent experience layer, moving beyond single projects.

You will lead through craft and vision, influencing product, engineering, and leadership, while managing ambiguous briefs and evolving briefs as the frontier advances. This role is remote within NAMER or LATAM with overlapping Pacific time.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in design, including 2+ years at principal level; individual contributor in fast-paced product environments.
• Proven ability to design across product surfaces and organizational boundaries.
• Comfortable owning a problem end to end with minimal oversight.

Responsibilities

• Design at the frontier: translate early vision into prototyped, shippable experience anchored in orchestration and intent-to-resolution design.
• Build across verticals: partner with product, engineering, and design leads across Deel's vertical teams for coherence and integration.
• Prototype at the frontier: rapidly design, prototype, test novel interaction paradigms including agentic workflows and personalized experiences.
• Design for personalization: create experiences powered by segmentation and personalization infrastructure without owning the data models.
• Push design patterns forward: innovate on frontier interactions and codify into the design system eventually.
• Build alignment: secure cross-functional buy-in through compelling design narratives and prototypes.
• Raise the bar on craft: maintain a high craft standard across all surfaces while respecting brand.

Skills

Principal level

Systems thinking

Self-directed

Ambiguity tolerance

Prototyping

AI design

Personalization

Cross-functional

Communication

Location flexibility

Job description

Who we are is what we do.

Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

Among the largest globally distributed companies in the world, our team of 7,000 spans more than 100 countries, speaks 74 languages, and brings a connected and dynamic culture that drives continuous learning and innovation for our customers.

Why should you be part of our success story?

As the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company in history, Deel is transforming how global talent connects with world-class companies – breaking down borders that have traditionally limited both hiring and career opportunities. We're not just building software; we're creating the infrastructure for the future of work, enabling a more diverse and inclusive global economy. In 2024 alone, we paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits to workers in 109 countries—ensuring people get paid and protected, no matter where they are.

Our momentum is reflected in our achievements and customer satisfaction: CNBC Disruptor 50, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Fast 500, and repeated recognition on Y Combinator's top companies list – all while maintaining a 4.83 average rating from 15,000 reviews across G2, Trustpilot, Captera, Apple and Google.

Your experience at Deel will be a career accelerator. At the forefront of the global work revolution, you'll tackle complex challenges that impact millions of people's working lives. With our momentum—backed by a $17.3 billion valuation and $1 B in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just over five years—you'll drive meaningful impact while building expertise that makes you a sought-after leader in the transformation of global work.

About the Role

Deel is transforming from a suite of products into an intelligent, orchestrated experience for work. As Principal Designer, you'll work directly with the Chief Design Officer as a collaborator on frontier design initiatives: the vision projects that sit ahead of where the core product roadmap is today. This is not a single-project role. The brief will move as the frontier moves. Right now, a central piece of that work is orchestration, designing what it means for a user to move from intent to resolution across a single, coherent experience layer.

Key Responsibilities

• Design at the Frontier: Take early, undefined vision and turn it into designed, prototyped, shippable experience, anchored right now in orchestration and intent-to-resolution design, with the remit expanding to new frontier initiatives over time.

• Build Across Verticals: Partner with product, engineering, and design leads across Deel's vertical teams so whatever you're building is coherent, scalable, and integrated with existing surfaces.

• Prototype at the Frontier: Rapidly design, prototype, and test novel interaction paradigms, from intent-driven interfaces and agentic workflows to task prediction UX and personalized, adaptive experiences.

• Design for Personalization: Design experiences powered by the segmentation and personalization infrastructure Deel's insights function builds, without owning the underlying data models.

• Push Design Patterns Forward: Innovate on interaction patterns at the frontier that inform what eventually gets codified into the design system, without owning the system itself.

• Build Alignment: Build alignment across product, engineering, and leadership through compelling design narrative and prototypes.

• Raise the Bar on Craft: Hold a high craft bar on every surface you touch, sharp enough to stand next to brand without owning it.

Requirements

• Principal or Staff Level Experience: 10+ years in design, including 2+ years at principal level - or equivalent seniority. You operate as an individual contributor in fast-paced, high-complexity product environments, leading through vision and craft, not people management.

• Systems Thinker: Proven ability to design across product surfaces and organizational boundaries, thinking in systems, not screens.

• Self-Directed: Comfortable owning a problem end to end with minimal oversight, from ambiguous brief to shipped experience, without waiting for direction on what to build next.

• Comfortable with a Moving Brief: Energized by ambiguity and by work that shifts as the frontier moves, rather than needing a fixed, permanent mandate.

• Prototyping and Craft: Exceptional prototyping skills and strong visual and interaction design sensibility.

• AI-Native Design Practice: Hands‑on experience designing AI‑powered product experiences (agentic workflows, intent‑driven interfaces, generative UI, personalization systems), focused on designing with and for AI rather than building AI tooling.

• Personalization‑Aware: Comfortable designing experiences powered by segmentation and personalization systems without owning the data modeling behind them.

• Collaborative and Cross‑functional: A natural relationship builder across design, product, and engineering who earns trust without needing a formal design‑systems or data‑science mandate to do it.

• Communication and Narrative: An exceptional communicator who builds alignment through design vision, particularly when translating undefined ideas into something a room can align behind.

• Location: NAMER or LATAM based, with working hours overlapping Pacific time and some overlap with EMEA.

Design and AI at Deel

AI is fundamentally changing what products can do and how they're designed. Right now, orchestration is Deel's most visible bet in this space, and it's where this role starts. But the mandate is broader than any single project: this is the design seat for whatever frontier the CDO is pushing next. If you've designed agentic workflows, intent‑driven interfaces, generative UI, or personalization experiences, and you want a role where the brief keeps evolving rather than settling into steady‑state, this is that seat.

Rémunération Globale

Nos collaborateurs méritent une rémunération juste et compétitive qui s'adapte à leur réalité. Avec des avantages sociaux et des gratifications évolutives, notre programme de rémunération globale reflète notre engagement en faveur de l'inclusion et de l'accessibilité pour tous.

Ce dont vous bénéficierez :

• Des opportunités d'attribution d'actions (stock options) selon votre rôle, votre statut d'emploi et votre localisation.
• Des avantages et privilèges supplémentaires basés sur votre statut d'emploi et votre pays.
• La flexibilité du travail à distance, incluant un accès optionnel aux espaces WeWork.

Égalité des chances et Diversité

Chez Deel, nous sommes un employeur garantissant l'égalité des chances. Nous valorisons la diversité et encourageons vivement les candidatures de personnes qualifiées, sans distinction de race, de religion, de sexe, d'origine nationale, d'identité de genre, d'orientation sexuelle, d'âge, d'état civil, de statut de vétéran, de handicap, de grossesse ou de maternité, ou de toute autre caractéristique protégée par la loi.

Sauf accord contraire, nous communiquons avec les candidats via des adresses e-mail spécifiques à Deel (se terminant par @deel.com ou celles de sociétés acquises comme @payspace.com et @paygroup.com). Vous pouvez consulter nos offres d'emploi à jour sur notre page carrières.

Accessibilité et Processus de Recrutement

Deel s'engage à offrir des aménagements sur demande tout au long du processus de recrutement, de sélection et d'évaluation pour les candidats en situation de handicap. Si vous avez besoin d'un aménagement, veuillez en informer notre équipe d'acquisition de talents via ce lien ; un membre de l'équipe vous contactera pour garantir votre participation équitable. En cas de difficulté d'accès au formulaire, contactez-nous à [e-mail].

Notre processus repose principalement sur des entretiens et des évaluations liées au poste. Dans certains cas restreints, nous pouvons examiner des informations contextuelles informelles pertinentes pour le rôle, conformément à nos obligations de confidentialité et d'équité.

Utilisation de l'IA et de la Technologie

Ce processus de candidature utilise des outils d'aide à la décision automatisée (AEDT) et des systèmes d'IA pour évaluer les candidats en fonction de leur niveau d'expérience, de leurs compétences techniques et de leurs qualifications. En tant qu'entreprise 100 % en télétravail, nous utilisons également des technologies de détection de fraude et de deepfake propulsées par l'IA pour vérifier l'authenticité de l'identité des candidats lors des évaluations. Ce traitement est effectué dans le respect des lois sur la protection des données, la gouvernance de l'IA et le droit du travail. Nous garantissons qu'une supervision humaine est maintenue pour toutes les décisions finales d'embauche. Vos données personnelles ne sont pas utilisées pour entraîner des modèles d'IA. Pour plus d'informations, consultez notre Politique de Confidentialité.

Note pour les résidents de New York : Conformément à la loi locale 144 de NYC, un audit indépendant sur les biais a été réalisé sur nos outils AEDT.

For U.S. Applicants:

Benefits: Full-time employees in the United States receive a variety of benefits while employed at Deel.

• Health Insurance Effective from Day 1 (Medical, Dental, & Vision)
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Savings Account (FSA)
• Flexible time off (PTO)
• 12 paid holidays per year
• Parental leave: 16 weeks for the birthing parent and 8 weeks for the non-birthing parent

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