Principal Product Designer - Remote, US

Paylocity; United States; Remote; USD 161,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in the HR and payroll software industry as a Principal Product Designer, working remotely from anywhere within the U.S. This role is crucial in enhancing user experience and product strategy, offering a generous salary range of $161k to $213k, with additional bonuses and stock options. Ideal candidates will possess extensive UX experience and a proven track record in enterprise SaaS design.

Benefits

Medical coverage

Dental and vision insurance

401(k) match

Continuous career development opportunities

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in UX within agile environments.
• 1-2 years leading UX teams in enterprise SaaS web development.
• Broad set of advanced UX skills in complex information architecture.

Responsibilities

• Define and solve complex user-centric design needs.
• Lead the design direction across all stages of SDLC and PDLC.
• Manage risks and escalate priorities for UX delivery.

Skills

Agile methodology

UX design

Collaboration

User research

Education

Bachelor’s degree in human computer interaction, design, engineering, or related field

Tools

Figma

Sketch

InVision

Job description

Paylocity is an equal opportunity employer.

Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.

While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce.

We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and a 401(k) match, as well as perks that support you, your family, and your finances. And if it’s career development you desire, we provide that, too! At Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business.

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This is a fully remote position, allowing you to work from home or location of record within the U.S. with no in-office requirements. You must be available five days per week during designated work hours. The work arrangement for this role is subject to change based on business needs and individual performance. This may include adjustments to on-site requirements or schedule expectations, as necessary.

The Principal Product Designer plays a critical role in our Product and Technology organization. This key leader keeps their finger on the pulse of their team, provides guidance on the quality of our user experience, and focuses on enabling a UX squad in a product vertical to achieve their highest level of performance. This includes partnering with product management and engineering to develop and understand strategy and priorities across products, guiding UX approach, working with UX leadership on resourcing allocations and needs, and making connections where common problems are being solved.

You are a leader in the UX community and are the “go-to” resource for UX designers in your squad, providing insight into product and UX strategy, priorities, and related work that is happening out of view from their immediate team. You also provide consistent updates to leadership on risks, challenges, and wins.

Defines and performs UX tasks, could run ceremonies and standups, identifies when swarming of team is necessary to meet deadlines. Leads the design and UX direction of new products, solutions, and processes across all stages of SDLC and PDLC (software and product development lifecycles). Partners with Design Manager to ensure team completes all necessary steps in UX process to deliver exceptional product, including design briefs, workshops, influential storytelling, prioritization, flows, research, content, etc. Oversees project delivery to achieve FY objectives.

This position requires commitment to exceptional results, a strong desire for continuous improvement and the ability to build a collaborative culture within User Experience and broadly across Product & Technology. This in turn will ensure we continue to innovate and expand our market-leading product suite.

How we work:

• UX organized as a central partnership supporting Product & Technology
• Small UX squads serving a group of product teams, with an entrepreneurial spirit, organized into product and category teams
• Dedicated Design Systems team committed to supporting the latest component and pattern development
• We don’t add more folks to our teams, we add additional teams to scale
• Casual, collaborative, agile environment which embraces and operates under our shared principles
• Complete transparency with open, honest discussions about our progress
• Close working relationship between executive stakeholders and product teams
• We focus on our customer’s unmet needs and leverage their input as our product co-creators
• We are determined and willing to experiment, embracing a fast pace and constant feedback loops

During the first six months, you will:

• Serve as a UX lead in defining and solving complex user-centric design needs
• Utilize your strong storytelling skills to influence and shape the right solutions with key stakeholders
• Familiarize yourself with product strategy priorities and needs
• Keep your finger on the pulse of product teams needs
• Partner with product and engineering to assure quality and timeliness of UX delivery to support product team delivery
• Cultivate your strong relationships with product and engineering counterparts in the product organization
• Partner with product organization to inform your management of your designated design resources
• Manage risks, escalate priorities, and drive resolution of issues that could impact UX delivery
• Lead UX squad routines and own work tracking and reporting
• Identify skills gaps or opportunities with team members and identify areas of focus or learnings to help upskill them.
• Provide feedback to direct reports through performance review feedback cycles when applicable.
• Work closely with UX leadership to evangelize UX vision, mission, strategy, standards and principles, working with other PDLs and Design Managersto drive outcomes
• Enable team to make the right choices, in alignment with our UX direction, to promote scalable and user-friendly solutions
• Evangelize the standard of quality for work and operationalize our common approach for work

Required Experience:

• 7+ years of experience working in an agile environment delivering UX
• Minimum 1-2 years leading user experience teams in an enterprise SaaS web development environment
• Broad set of UX skills, advanced in experience design and system design within a complex information architecture
• Proven ability to collaborate on process improvements and influence product/engineering counterparts in an organization
• Experience with complex design problems and/or major redesigns

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with the latest user experience tools, strongly preferred (Figma, Sketch, InVision, Mural, Whimsical)
• Bachelor’s degree in human computer interaction, design, engineering, or related field
• Has a solid understanding of front-end development (HTML/CSS)

Soft Skills:

• At ease working at all levels of the organization
• Effectively communicates design process to non-designers, advocates for process improvements and makes connections to product strategy.
• Relentlessly curious about current market and technology trends, able to adapt accordingly
• Passionate about design, front end development, information architecture, and research
• A superior communicator with an affinity for change management
• Unflinching in your desire for the best user experience possible

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact [e-mail] . This email address is exclusively designated for such requests, aligning with federal and state disability laws. Please do not send resumes to this email address, as they will be removed.

This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $161k - $213k/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual bonus and restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance in addition to a full range of benefits outlined here. opens in a new tab This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers. opens in a new tab

At Paylocity, “We” is what makes us different. We are committed to fostering aculture that honors diverse opinions, perspectives, and backgrounds, knowing that each makes us stronger andcollectively unbeatable together. We actively cultivate these differences as we engage each other in drivinginnovation in the software and services we provide our customers. Paylocity is an equal opportunityemployer.If you are an individual with a disability and you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during theapplication process, please contact our services team at [phone].