Principal Product Designer: Strategy, Systems & Influence

Meta; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 201,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a senior product designer to shape experiences across multiple platforms, ensuring high craft and usability. You will influence roadmaps, mentor teams, and drive strategic design decisions with executives, impacting billions of users globally.

The role emphasizes end-to-end design leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and the integration of responsible AI practices to optimize workflows and deliver measurable impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, CS or related field
• 8+ years designing software products with emphasis on UX and visuals
• Proven ability to use research/data to guide product strategy
• Strategic thinking with ability to communicate vision to executives
• Deep expertise in prototyping across fidelity levels

Responsibilities

• Define and drive design vision across a product portfolio, ensuring quality and coherence
• Lead design projects spanning multiple areas with ambiguity and novel challenges
• Translate company strategy into design direction at an executive level
• Create simple, elegant, usable experiences across platforms
• Develop and unify visual/interaction systems scalable across products
• Be a recognized design expert across product areas and trends
• Mentor and elevate design practice through frameworks and alignment
• Forge executive partnerships with product/eng/research/content to align priorities
• Present design rationale to senior leadership to align on direction

Skills

Design vision

Cross-functional lead

End-to-end design

Visual systems

Prototyping tools

Executive collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design/ related field

Tools

Figma

Prototype tools

Job description

Meta is seeking a senior product designer to shape experiences across multiple platforms, ensuring high craft and usability. You will influence roadmaps, mentor teams, and drive strategic design decisions with executives, impacting billions of users globally.

The role emphasizes end-to-end design leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and the integration of responsible AI practices to optimize workflows and deliver measurable impact.