Principal Product Designer

UpSlide is the number one productivity solution provider for financial services. Our software dramatically improves the functionality of PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Power BI and enables users at firms like Citi, KPMG, and BNP Paribas to focus on high-value tasks rather than formatting or copy-pasting. We’re scaling up with 160+ employees across our offices in New York, London, Paris (HQ), Singapore, and Berlin.

**Our values ✨**:
Our values guide our approach to work and are at the heart of our recruitment process. To join our team, we look for individuals who value:

- ** Excellence**: _We think that every detail counts, and we place great importance on the quality of our deliverables._
- ** Trust**: _We are passionate, committed, and free to act with autonomy._
- ** Happiness at work**: _We enjoy looking on the bright side and we share our enthusiasm with our colleagues and clients._

**The team ‍‍**:
Get ready to dive into our dynamic Product Team, led by our CPO and backed by a talented crew including 1 Head of Product, 4 Product Managers, 1 Technical Product Manager, 1 creative Product Designer, and 2 savvy Product Marketing Managers We’re lucky to work with a strong team 30 engineers.

As our Principal Product Designer, you’ll work with any of our 5 Product x Engineering squads. Some of the latest releases our designers worked on:

- Track Changes for PowerPoint
- AI-Powered Glossary

**Your responsibilities ️**:

- ** Design of new features flow 50%**
- Deliver high-quality, intuitive cross-platform design for financial services that reflect UpSlide's premium positioning
- Develop a strategic UX vision for AI-powered features and innovative capabilities to maintain our leadership as the best Office Add-in
- Build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with Product Designer, Product Managers, Product Marketing Managers, and Engineers as a trusted thought partner
- Create and test advanced Figma prototypes with comprehensive usability testing
- Animate co-creative workshops (ideation, design reviews, design critique, etc.)
- ** User research 30%**
- Drive user insights through research, competitive benchmarking, and data analytics
- Maintain user personas and journey maps to influence the overall UX across all touchpoints
- ** Operations 20%**
- Drive design excellence and process improvement across the organisation, collaborating with peers and stakeholders to achieve positive product impact and enhance ways of working
- Support the design system by documenting components, participating in strategy development, and promoting internal alignment

**Product team stack**: Figma, Notion, ProductBoard, Microsoft 365 (we build on it)

**You are a great fit if you have**:

- +8 years of work experience including significant B2B Software experience
- Shipped high-quality designs that enhance product experience
- Detail-oriented expertise in UX, UI, and visual design, capable of delivering production-ready assets for development with precision
- Meaningfully worked on, or with a design system
- Some knowledge of Microsoft Office (we build on it)
- Great written and verbal communication skills in English and French to communicate with different stakeholders
- You want to build a productivity tool used daily by thousands of users

**We’d love it if**:

- You experienced the pain of building perfect slides or Excel models in a previous job
- You experienced building AI-powered products
- You’ve worked in Financial Services or Banking**Pay and benefits**:
At UpSlide we have a career path to help you grow, that valorizes both indivual contributors and managers.

**Recruitment process**:

- First interview with Misbah, Senior Talent Acquisition Manager, to better understand your career plan and answer any questions you may have [30’ video or call]
- Interview with Diane, Head of Product, to be aligned on expectations on both sides [45’ video call]
- Case study and review with Aymeric, Product Designer, one of our Product Managers, and Matteo, CPO, to evaluate your skills and give you a taste of what working at UpSlide could be like [80’ in person]
- Interview with Matteo, CPO [30’ in person]
- Meet the team around a coffee (or tea)
- We'll conduct a reference check to learn how to help you thrive_
- _On average our process lasts 3 weeks._

**What we offer**:
Make a real difference and be at the very centre of a self-funded and growing SaaS company (doubling every two years for the past 10 years)

**International environment**: Start-up with five offices (Paris, London, Berlin, New York, Singapore) and users in more than 60 countries

**Hybrid work**: 2-3 days/week hybrid work policy

‍ **Work-from-home budget**: €500 WFH equipment budget

**Training & professional development**: Collaboration with our sister company, IPH, who provides UpSliders with training on key soft skills and management
- ️ **Wellness package**: 50€ per month for physical and mental wellness activities

**Parental leave**: Paid