Principal Product Designer

Why this role

As Evolve continues to grow its network of vacation rental properties, we are leaning more heavily on our customer-facing experiences to serve the growing customer base of homeowners, network partners, and travelers. These product experiences need to live up to our brand mission to make vacation rental easy for everyone.

As a Principal Product Designer, you will operate at the Design Systems level yet be able to turn designs into smaller iterations. You will be responsible for creating and improving the user-experience across the entire Evolve portfolio. You will own design direction, drive innovation and creativity, and inspire product & engineering teams in building user centric products in an agile development organization. The experiences you design will exceed our customer expectations, meet stakeholder requirements, and drive business results.

What you’ll do

• Provide design mentorship to designers on your pillar and on the team
• Develop, own and execute quarterly roadmaps aligned with product priorities
• Provide pillar leadership and design oversight to others designers including assistance with scoping, work review, feedback, uplevelling skills
• Partner with department leadership to define processes and strategies for the design team to better integrate into project teams
• As a subject matter expert, provide leadership in creating a user-centric design culture by bringing processes and frameworks that increase the quality of user experience across all products
• Translate user problems and business concepts into user flows, wireframes, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences
• Accountable for design delivery across your pillar
• Lead the scope, prioritization, and allocation of designers for pillar design work
• Create, prototype, user test, iterate and deliver detailed designs to product and engineering teams that are optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
• Build and enforce systems and practices that keep experiences consistent across our React and Salesforce Community products 

What makes you a great fit

• 8+ years of relevant work experience with UX, with well-rounded expertise in visual and interaction design and a deep understanding of front end development
• 1+ year of experience mentoring and coaching designers preferred 
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and an understanding of responsive design
• Experience gathering user feedback and conducting research through surveys, user testing, a/b testing, rapid prototyping
• Ability to translate requirements and research and generate multiple solutions to a given problem
• Proven track record in building consumer experiences on web and mobile that are designed for conversion

Location 

We currently are able to hire throughout the U.S except in the following states: District of Columbia, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania. If you live in Colorado, you can work remotely anywhere in the state, at our downtown Denver office, or a hybrid of both!

California Applicant Privacy Policy | Evolve

Compensation

For this role our salary range is $157,000 - $181,000, depending on relevant experience.  This role will also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on both company and individual performance.

Additional compensation details: 

Equity: 75% of salary equivalent RSUs

Variable comp: 15% of salary target

#LI-AZ1