Principal Design Engineer

OverviewJoin to apply for the Principal Product Designer role at Depot.This range is provided by Depot. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.Base pay range$200,000.00/yr - $250,000.00/yrAt Depot, we are on a mission to redefine software collaboration and accelerate developers everywhere. We are creating a build performance and developer platform unlike any other, combining performance, empathy, and centralized collaboration to enable companies to iterate exponentially faster. We are embarking on the next phase of Depot, which aims to redefine the software development process. Everyone at Depot is inspired by the opportunity to help developers ship and collaborate faster than ever before. We are all builders and care deeply about the quality of our work. We believe that by focusing on performance, empathy, and quality, we are creating a gravitational pull towards Depot, both the team and the product. This is the foundation on which all other things are built.We are looking to hire our first Product Designer who can further advance our mission to provide not just the fastest place to collaborate on software, but the highest quality as well. For this role, we expect you to be a seasoned expert, have robust design skills, sharp product thinking, and the ability to engage deeply in technical discussions. We work as a small team where engineers and designers work side by side to test ideas, build proof of concepts, and ultimately ship quality solutions to customers. You will be a key contributor and have ownership & autonomy to see projects through from beginning to end. Please note: We are an equal opportunity employer and remote-only company. At this time, we can only support hiring within North America and Europe for this role.ResponsibilitiesYou will pair closely with engineering and founders to initiate and deliver roadmap projects hands-on.You will communicate with existing Depot customers and users to better understand where the overall design could be better, and then you’ll build the solution.Identify opportunities to redesign key screens and various flows to enhance the overall product, addressing both major issues and minor paper cut types that Depot users encounter.Create mockups, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals to communicate ideas and describe their execution.Implement a lightweight design system of components to allow others to implement your overall vision of product design for Depot.Help with hiring new team members who can help push Depot’s team and product forward.What we’re looking for7+ years of experience designing softwareMust be a self-starter who is excited about hard challenges and is comfortable working in an environment with ambiguity at timesAbility to take complex problems and feedback, then distill them down to design clear and focused solutionsCapable of asking questions, experimenting, and advocating for what you feel is rightExperience prototyping ideas with tools like Figma (and beyond using AI, HTML/CSS, etc)A strong desire for ownership, you should be able to both define goals & execute on them from idea to measurementStrong written and verbal communication skills & comfort collaborating with colleagues asynchronously across time zones – much of our work is asyncDepot values and cultureWe’re a fully remote and globally distributed team across the US, Europe, and Canada. As a remote startup, there is a collection of things we value and expect from folksWe’re not your family and don’t pretend to be. We expect you to get things done and work hard to help us meet your goals, but you should balance work with time for family and friends.We’re a small team and aim to accomplish massive things as a lean group. Everyone at Depot is a self-starter and deeply passionate about the problems we’re solving.We want you to own it. Ownership is key to growth, including making choices and owning the outcomes.We value data. We make decisions based on data and customer needs; folks thrive by being data-driven in their decision making.Seniority levelMid-Senior levelEmployment typeFull-timeJob functionDesign, Art/Creative, and Information TechnologyIndustries: Software DevelopmentReferrals increase your chances of interviewing at Depot by 2x #J-18808-Ljbffr