Principal Product Designer — AI Learning Experience Lead

Candidate; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Speak in San Francisco is seeking a Principal Product Designer to lead design for a major portion of our consumer experience, focusing on growth or core learning. You’ll be a hands-on IC who sets direction, ships meaningful work, and mentors teammates.

Partner with Product, Engineering, Learning Design, and Analytics to prototype AI-powered interactions, craft novel user experiences, and ensure a cohesive end-to-end journey across languages and markets.

Qualifications

• Consumer design leadership with 10+ years, shipping and iterating a major consumer product area.
• Close to users, testing early with prototypes.
• Product judgment: define problems and vision.
• AI-native workflow: use AI in your workflow.
• Taste and craft at speed with a strong design point of view.
• Influence and mentorship across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead design for a major part of Speak's consumer experience (growth or core learning).
• Set experience vision grounded in learner empathy.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to shape strategy and direction.
• Invent interaction patterns for AI-powered learning beyond templates.
• Prototype and iterate quickly in AI tools or interactive prototypes.
• Lead across team boundaries to ensure a cohesive end-to-end experience.

Skills

Consumer design leadership

Close to users

Product judgment

AI-native workflow

Taste and craft at speed

Influence and mentorship

Job description

Speak in San Francisco is seeking a Principal Product Designer to lead design for a major portion of our consumer experience, focusing on growth or core learning. You’ll be a hands-on IC who sets direction, ships meaningful work, and mentors teammates.

Partner with Product, Engineering, Learning Design, and Analytics to prototype AI-powered interactions, craft novel user experiences, and ensure a cohesive end-to-end journey across languages and markets.