Principal Product Designer

Principal Product Designer

Your mission as Principal Product Designer

As Energage's Principal Designer, you'll be our most senior design practitioner and a strategic partner to design leadership as we mature our design practice and elevate design's voice across the organization. You'll tackle our most complex design challenges—including creating a new unified experience that brings together multiple platforms and introduces new user types—while establishing the frameworks, standards, and practices that position design as a strategic driver of business value and exceptional user experiences.

Accountability & Impact: 

In this role, you will...

Provide Strategic & Tactical Design Leadership

• Lead design for our most complex, ambiguous initiatives, including a new unified experience consolidating multiple platforms
• Define design system architecture and interaction models that work across diverse user needs
• Establish design as a strategic business partner through high-impact work that demonstrates measurable value
• Balance hands-on design work with organizational leadership, with the ratio evolving based on team needs

Build Practice & Standards

• Partner with the Director of Design to establish design frameworks, standards, and documentation that mature our practice
• Lead strategic design system initiatives including unification, consolidation, and new pattern creation
• Identify systemic gaps in design practice and address them at scale
• Help build design's credibility and voice at the leadership table

Drive Research & Strategy

• Design research strategies that ensure insights ladder up to holistic experience goals across workstreams
• Synthesize research findings from across the team to identify patterns and strategic opportunities
• Envision and articulate compelling futures that inspire teams and influence product direction

Mentor & Develop the Team

• Mentor designers across all levels on product strategy, craft excellence, collaboration, and influence
• Develop designers' skills through regular coaching, feedback, and hands-on guidance
• Model exceptional design practice that others learn from and aspire to

Collaborate & Influence

• Serve as a trusted partner to product, engineering, and executive stakeholders
• Communicate complex ideas with clarity and influence at the highest levels
• Champion design's strategic value in business and product discussions
• Deescalate conflict and push teams to alignment on difficult projects

What You Bring to the Role:

• 8-15 years of product design experience with demonstrated progression to senior IC roles
• Deep expertise in at least two areas: visual/UI design, interaction design, UX research, design systems, or information architecture
• Proven track record leading complex, strategic initiatives with measurable business impact
• Strong research skills including ability to design research strategies, synthesize insights across workstreams, and ensure research ladders up to holistic experience goals
• Design systems expertise creating, evolving, or governing design systems at scale
• Strategic thinking balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints
• Exceptional communication influencing stakeholders at all levels, including executives
• Experience elevating design's organizational influence and establishing design as a strategic partner
• Mentorship experience helping designers grow their skills and impact
• Portfolio demonstrating craft mastery, strategic thinking, and impact
• Expertise in industry-standard design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Confluence, Notion, Google Drive
• Inclusive design expertise with understanding of WCAG standards and designing for diverse abilities, contexts, and user needs
• Agile/Scrum experience working in iterative, cross-functional product teams
• Complex B2B product experience with multi-user, multi-role enterprise workflows

Nice to have's:

• Experience maturing design practices at growing organizations
• Background establishing design's strategic voice at the leadership level
• Experience with platform consolidations or multi-product unification
• Familiarity with HR tech, survey platforms, or workplace culture tools
• Track record of external thought leadership
• Advanced inclusive design knowledge beyond WCAG basics

Compensation and BenefitsThis position has a salary range of that variesbased on relevant experience. Please review the compensation tiers below. This role is also bonus eligible.

8-10 years of experience: $145,000 – $150,000

10–12 years of experience: $155,000 – $160,000

13-15+ years of experience: $165,000 – $170,000

In addition to base pay, our total rewards package includes:

• PTO policy includes company holidays, sick time, vacation time, and floating holidays
• Remote
• Company pays a portion of individual health care premium
• Option to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k) 
• Training and education
• Professional development; all employees have access to a third party professional coach
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Opportunity to work for a purpose-driven organization using business as a force for good (https://www.bcorporation.net/)

Why This Opportunity

Join Energage at a pivotal moment as we mature our design practice and establish design as a strategic driver of business success and user experience excellence. We're building a unified experience that brings together employee engagement and talent management—strategic work that will enable employees, managers, and HR professionals to build great workplace cultures.

You'll work alongside the Director of Design and the broader design team as we tackle these challenges together, building on our team's deep domain expertise. You'll have significant influence on both product direction and how design operates within the organization—shaping what we build and building design's voice at the leadership table.

If you're energized by the challenge of building practice and elevating design's strategic influence—not just maintaining what exists—this role offers that rare combination of autonomy, impact, and meaningful work. You'll help transform how design contributes to the organization while delivering on high-stakes product initiatives.

Energage is a remote workplace with employees in various US locations. While our employees enjoy the flexibility of daily remote work, they are also given the occasional opportunity for in person interaction. This includes in our office in Exton Pa, or in a coworking space/out in their local area. This role is available for remote work in the following states: 

• Arizona
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Maryland
• Michigan
• North Carolina
• Nebraska
• New Jersey
• New York STATE (NYC residents excluded)
• Pennsylvania
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Wisconsin

If you reside outside of the above locations, you will not be considered for this role.

About Energage: 

Energage is a purpose-driven company that helps organizations turn employee feedback into useful business intelligence and credible employer recognition through Top Workplaces. Built on 19 years of culture research and the results from 23 million employees surveyed across more than 70,000 organizations, Energage delivers the most accurate competitive benchmark available. With access to a unique combination of patented analytic tools and expert guidance, Energage customers lead the competition with an engaged workforce and an opportunity to gain recognition for their people-first approach to culture. For more information or to nominate your organization, visit energage.com or topworkplaces.com. 

Energage is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Energage encourages all qualified candidates to apply, including those of any race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.