Why This Role Stands Out
This Principal Product Designer role offers a fantastic opportunity to shape impactful product experiences and drive innovation within a reputable company, with competitive hourly compensation of $64-74. You'll thrive here if you're a visionary leader passionate about rapid prototyping and strategic product thinking, enjoying the flexibility of a hybrid work environment. Don't miss out on the chance to elevate your career in this exciting position.
Quick Overview
Job Description
Title: Principal Product Designer
Location: Charlotte, NC 28217 (Hybrid 3 days a week)
Duration: 1 Yeare Contract to FTE Hire
Compensation: $64-85/HR based on candidate experience, Salary + Benefits on Conversion
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders
Mission
Own how validated opportunities are translated into compelling product experiences. Lead solution shaping through rapid prototyping, interaction design, and product thinking while evolving the experience foundations that allow those solutions to scale.
Key Responsibilities
Shape Product Direction
- Translate validated opportunities into product experiences.
- Explore multiple solution directions before converging.
- Define future-state workflows and interaction models.
- Translate long-term vision into practical, iterative experiences.
- Partner with Product, Discovery, and Engineering teams before delivery.
Prototype & Validate
- Prototype to improve product decisions, not just communicate designs.
- Use AI to accelerate concept exploration and iteration.
- Choose the appropriate level of fidelity for each decision.
- Validate concepts with users and stakeholders before engineering investment.
- Continuously improve prototyping practices across the organization.
Build Experience Foundations
- Evolve reusable interaction patterns and experience principles.
- Modernize visual language where it improves product usability and outcomes.
- Grow the experience system from proven patterns and successful solutions.
- Promote consistency through reusable foundations and standards.
Improve the Practice
- Strengthen Design and Engineering collaboration.
- Recommend improvements to the design-to-production workflow.
- Evaluate emerging AI-enabled design and product development workflows.
- Coach designers and elevate overall product design practices.
Success Measures
- Teams move from opportunity to validated solution more quickly.
- Strategic initiatives explore multiple concepts before implementation.
- Solutions are validated earlier in the product development lifecycle.
- Experience foundations evolve naturally from proven work.
- Engineering and Design teams share common frameworks and foundations.
About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs.
Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project solutions, and talent solutions. By continually striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our consultants and clients to match the right talent and solutions to the right opportunities.
Learn more at www.inspyrsolutions.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. INSPYR Solutions is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace.
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