Championing product-led excellence

Productboard is a product management platform helping teams engage with their customer research, product strategy, and roadmaps. We believe in making products that matter – products that solve real-world problems and make their users better at what they do. With our continued move upmarket, our enterprise customers and their products make a real dent in the world.

If you’re passionate about well-made digital products, keep the customer front-and-center, and can appreciate the challenge of designing products for scale, at scale, keep reading.

We’re looking for a seasoned Principal Product Designer to look broadly across our product with a decisive and fast-moving mindset to enable swift delivery of value into the hands of our customers.

Do you get excited about setting direction, turning product strategy into tangible actions, and influencing what gets shipped to learn and iterate more effectively? Can you translate this into purposeful direction and coaching to empower designers on product teams, helping the whole organization move faster?

With 6,000 customers, 90,000 monthly active users, and customers like Zoom, Microsoft, and UiPath, you’ll impact a large, growing, and engaged user base.

What the team’s like

The design team’s goal is to make it exceptionally easy for customers to discover, engage with, and benefit from our products.

You will become an integral part of our product organization's seasoned leadership, collaborating with a team of expert product designers across geos all united by a shared mission: to delight the customer, and to keep getting better at their craft. We are eager for you to build upon this foundation

As a team of seasoned experience-builders, we know that the more engaged our people are, the better our work will be. Ours is a genuine, collaborative atmosphere where you can positively influence and self-realize.

You’ll be joining a company built by missionaries, where great work gets rewarded, and you’ll be able to do some of your best work here. Does it sound like something you’d enjoy? Let us know!

Your weekly snapshot

  • Strategize with the design team and contribute to product vision and objectives. React quickly to emerging situations to keep the product work moving.
  • Drive holistic user experiences by collaborating closely with design, product, analytics, marketing, sales, and engineering teams. Design, prototype, and iterate on intuitive solutions and interactions that effectively address customer needs.
  • Mentor and guide senior and staff designers, creating a culture of growth towards excellence.
  • Join and lead design critiques, workshops, and product discussions to inform or make decisions, and embrace pair-designing for ideation, review, and improvement.
  • Represent critical parts of the design work upwards and across the company.

What you’re like

  • You’ve worked as an advanced design individual contributor in a complex space before, and you can deliver lean, compelling work and bring others along for the journey.
  • You don’t hesitate to own and drive projects, get stuff done, and improve ways of working. You empower others to do the work, giving them your methods and intuitions, but you can also lean in as needed.
  • You can sense what the business is trying to achieve and adapt your approach in response to evolving strategy, emerging insights, customer feedback, and market dynamics.
  • When making design decisions, you balance intuition from years of experience with strategy, evidence, and measurement.
  • You communicate clearly and effectively and can confidently work with cross-functional and cross-departmental stakeholders. Your Slack and Zoom styles are as strong as your in-person comms.
  • You build relationships quickly, seek feedback to grow, and, in turn, give feedback with candor and empathy.
  • You’ve experienced a B2B SaaS organization serving enterprise customers, one with a mature product design practice.

A peek into our world

From the outside, it can be hard to imagine what working here is like. That’s why we have our Comparably profile. Their impartial view gives potential starters a good look inside our company.

After you’ve read our Comparably, head to our design team’s page to learn who’s on the team, how we work, and look at what we’ve published. See how we wrote the team’s charter, too.

Meet Zdenek, a Product Design Director in Prague. Get his take on what life’s really like as a designer at Productboard.

Or if you’re on the move, listen to this podcast episode about building great products, and this one about delight, both featuring our CEO and co-founder Hubert.

Some more perks to working with us

  • You'll join a diverse and talented team, with plenty of opportunities for personal growth, impact, and learning.
  • Stock options
  • MacBook
  • Budget for online courses, books, and conferences
  • 5 weeks of vacation + sick days
  • 1 Volunteer Day per year for you to help causes close to your heart
  • Team events, such as off-sites and retreats
  • Shared Headspace account for mindfulness & mental health
  • Parental benefits
  • Language lessons
  • Mental Wellness Program to support your well-being and self-care
  • Comprehensive Health Insurance
  • Pension Contribution
  • Illness Protection
  • Death in Service Benefit
  • Hone - Live, Interactive Learning for Managers, Leaders and Teams

  • Join at the golden startup age — established stability of a Unicorn with space for individual impact
  • You’ll enjoy an exciting team atmosphere, building a whole new category of software
  • You can help change the way that products are built all over the world
  • We iterate quickly and decisions are fast. You’ll have a voice in what we do and see the impact of your work
  • We are backed by top Silicon Valley investors, giving us access to capital, networks, mentors, and new markets
  • We are recognized as one of the hottest tech startups on the market today, named by Forbes magazine and Business Insider as one of the best startup employers to bet your career on and are regularly recognized for our company culture

About our culture

Imagine working in a place where everything matters — most importantly, you. At Productboard, values aren’t just something we like to talk about, they’re something we live and breathe. We believe in creating a work environment where:

  • People feel empowered, supported, and included
  • Trust and transparency are built into the way we work
  • Creativity, curiosity, and continuous improvement are encouraged and nurtured every day

Forming our company values was a group effort, with every employee allowed to contribute. From profit-sharing initiatives, like stock options, to open calendars and communication, we don’t waste time on politics or ego. We champion openness by sharing our goals, success, and failures.Join colleagues who love what they do and who are invested in their work environment and the future of the company. Help shape our company, culture, and product!Check out our LinkedIn Life page, Instagram profile, and People of Productboard FB page or listen to our People of Productboard podcast for a real feel of what life is like at Productboard.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and champion equity. It is our aim to help people from all backgrounds, cultures, and groups realize their full potential at Productboard. We do not tolerate any discrimination or harassment based upon gender identity, race, colour, religion, age, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other biascovered by appropriate law. All aspects of employment, including hiring, training, promotion, and terminations, are based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are committed to an inclusive hiring process and provide all candidates with equal opportunity to demonstrate their abilities. Togetherness is one of our core values, and our Diversity Council helps to ensure that we uphold the values of authenticity, humanity, and diversity to create an environment where every person matters. We are committed to leading by example to drive societal change.