Principal Product Designer

📋 Description

• Medium has a long history of strong design leadership.

• As we enter a new phase of innovation we will be shaping the future of social publishing for our millions of readers and writers.

• At Medium, our mission is to deepen understanding across across the world by building community around shared stories and we invite you to join us.

• We are looking for a Principal Designer who is passionate about this mission and can bring exceptional craft and fresh insights to the world of reading, writing, and publishing.

• You’ll help drive and execute an ambitious product design strategy, contributing at both the structural and granular levels that shape our product experiences.

• If you are hungry for that type of hands-on impact and you are eager to lead, learn, and grow, we’d love to hear from you.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years designing consumer-facing software

• Experience working on social or reading and writing platforms, or in similar industries

• Track record of driving complex systems design at scale

• Experience shipping, scaling and maintaining design systems

• Ability to navigate urgency and ambiguity with a multi-faceted team in a fast-paced environment

• Demonstrated industry influence; we’d like to see examples of how you think outside the box and build enthusiasm for your ideas

• A genuine interest in Medium’s mission and knowledge of our platform

• Excellent design sensibilities and instincts that translate well to your UX/UI execution

• Informed product design opinions and industry knowledge that reflect current trends

• Strong desire for product impact through your designs

• Prototyping in Figma or code

• Bias toward action; you are outcome-oriented and take responsibility for your impact

• You demonstrate good judgment and can balance autonomy with collaboration

• Comfort navigating data, from UX metrics to qualitative and quantitative inputs

• Strong communication and presentation skills; you can easily relay the “why” behind your work as well as the “what” and “how”

• You enjoy and excel at remote work, helping to foster an inclusive team culture

🏖️ Benefits

• Working with a fully distributed team: We’re fully remote and have teammates across the U.S. & France

• Healthcare benefits covered at 100% for employees and 70% for dependents

• Generous parental leave policy & tutoring services through Outschool

• Mental health support through Talkspace

• Financial wellness support through Northstar

• Stipends for wellness, co-working, professional development, wifi and a one-time home office bonus

• Unlimited PTO and standard company holidays

• A Medium subscription