Principal Product Designer

About the Role:

• The Principal Product Designer is a key role at Quandri, responsible for establishing design as a strategic function and creating exceptional user experiences across our entire product suite. You will play a crucial part in defining the design vision and strategy for AI-first products that transform complex insurance workflows into intuitive digital experiences.


• Reporting to the VP Product, you will lead design strategy across cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, marketing, and customer success. Your expertise and leadership will be vital in building our design organization from the ground up, pioneering AI-powered user experiences, and establishing Quandri as a design-forward company in the Insurtech space.

What you'll do:

• Define and communicate the overall design vision and strategy that aligns with Quandri's business goals and AI-first approach
• Lead the end-to-end design process from research to implementation, including user research, design system creation, and cross-functional collaboration
• Design groundbreaking AI-powered user experiences that feel intuitive, trustworthy, and transformative for insurance professionals
• Collaborate with product management and engineering leadership to ensure timely and high-quality design implementation
• Establish user research practices and customer feedback loops to inform strategic design decisions
• Define and track key design metrics to measure success and drive business outcomes
• Pioneer design patterns for cutting-edge AI/ML features including confidence indicators, explainability, and human-AI collaboration
• Provide guidance and actively develop the skills of fellow designers, fostering a culture of learning and collaboration as our team grows.
• Serve as the senior design voice within the company, ensuring a user-first mindset across all product decisionsPartner with leadership team on product strategy and company direction

The right person for this role will have:

• 8+ years of product design experience, with significant leadership experience in B2B SaaS products at senior IC level
• Proven track record of building design systems from scratch and scaling design functions at high-growth, venture-backed companies
• Strong experience designing AI-powered products, with good understanding of machine learning workflows, conversational interfaces, and intelligent automation
• Demonstrated ability to design complex, enterprise-level interfaces and transform complicated workflows into intuitive experiences
• Advanced user research and analytical skills with experience driving strategic design decisions through dataExcellent stakeholder management and influence skills, with ability to align executive teams and drive organizational change
• Experience building and leading high-performing design teams in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
• Portfolio demonstrating strategic systems thinking and ability to create consistency across multiple complex products
• Track record of driving measurable business impact through design


Bonus points if you have:
• Experience designing AI-first products, LLM interfaces, or machine learning applications from 0-1Background in fintech, Insurtech, or other highly regulated industries
• Experience with workflow automation, or enterprise software design
• Experience working directly with executive teams on product strategy

Our guiding principles:

• Customers at the core. We put the customer at the center of all we do. At a basic level, we believe business success comes down to talking to customers and building something they want. We don't listen to customers and just take what they say blindly, but we think critically about it and build what they need. Customers are the core of everything we do, and our business exists to serve them. We prioritize their needs over all else within the company.
• Move with urgency. There are times when we need to move slowly and deliberately, but we default to acting fast and with urgency. We slow down when necessary, but this should be a deliberate choice. Businesses become more lethargic as they grow, this principle is designed to fight this fact.
• Be curious. We understand the world by being curious and asking why. We aren't satisfied with surface level understanding, and seek a deeper understanding of why things are the way they are. Don't take someone's word for it or the answer "because that's how we do it." Understand why and dig deep.
• Excellence in execution. We know that what separates good from great is a high level of execution. We commit ourselves to excellence in everything that we do, from delivering an amazing product to writing a great email.
• Act like an owner. We're all owners of the business and act like it. We follow through on commitments, own our results and think long-term.
• Fight for simplicity. The law of increasing functional information states that systems evolve to become more complex over time. At Quandri, we believe there is sophistication in simplicity; as such, we intentionally fight for streamlined solutions and are committed to the uncomplicated.