Principal Product Designer

Impact

As a seasoned Principal Product Designer, you will lead the definition and delivery of product design projects from concept to launch, ensuring products are innovative, functional, and user-centric within our Membership & Marketplace arena.

You’ll work with our merchandising team to integrate merchandising strategies into the product design process to enhance product discoverability, relevance, and appeal.

Additionally, you’ll partner closely with our marketing team to ensure product designs support marketing campaigns, brand messaging, and customer engagement strategies.

As a senior member of the product design team, you’ll provide guidance and mentorship to designers, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement, while raising the bar in design quality and guiding the team through execution.

You’ll also act as a multiplier for design craft in the domain, through your leadership and hands-on assistance.

What You’ll Need to Be Successful

Ability to influence multiple product areas while being able to drive a strategy and vision across an organization that helps shape the future of the business

Ability to drive high-level strategic decisions by closely analyzing customer insights and quantitative data to identify business and innovation opportunities

Ability to drive and champion collaboration with product, data science, and engineering counterparts, tactically breaking down strategic work into a roadmap with attainable and iterative initiatives

Ability to deliver design solutions that grow the business area and create new value for members / customers

Ability to influence and shape a team of designers to become the next generation of key contributors - promoting sharing work openly and welcoming feedback

Strong ability to solve unstructured problems that have many dependencies and lengthy timelines; Seeks out ambiguity and transforms it into effective, actionable plans with cross-functional partners

Great communicator and a compelling storyteller

Eager to stay up to date with the latest trends, in and out of retail

Qualifications

5+ years of experience of designing B2C products for mobile apps and web

8+ years of experience in user experience design or industry experience

Experience working directly with marketing and merchandising teams in an e-commerce environment

A portfolio that exemplifies 1 : 1 your design, strategy, and craft expertise and its impact on customer experience

Mastery of Figma and fluency with other digital design and prototyping tools

High level of literacy in working with qualitative and quantitative data

Work Arrangement

Shipt considers candidates located near a Shipt office or workspace in Birmingham, San Francisco, or Minneapolis to be hybrid, which means that they have the flexibility to work from home (with leader approval) or at a Shipt office in order to facilitate the ability to innovate, collaborate, and spark team connections.

In-office expectations will vary by role and leader. Certain roles may require in-office presence on a full-time basis. Please work with your recruiter to learn more about the classification of this role.

About Shipt

Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. Shipt connects customers to the things they want from the stores they love, retail businesses to more satisfied customers, and workers to new earning opportunities.

At Shipt, we aim to put our team first to boost a sense of belonging, spark opportunities for growth, provide unique benefits and commit to giving back to our communities in ways that make life better, both personally and professionally.

We understand that our service, our culture, and our connection to our communities are only made better by every single person who shows up to work here every day.

Shipt is an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corporation and available in more than 5,000 U.S. cities.

Shipt was founded and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.