Principal Product Designer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Establish and lead product and experience strategies across vast and complex problem areas, emphasizing the transformation of intricate, data-oriented ecosystems into straightforward, scalable, and user-friendly experiences.

• Strategic Leadership: Formulate and implement product strategy that aligns with sustainability objectives and measurable impact results.

• Sustainability Expertise: Convert sustainability frameworks (such as ESG reporting, circular economy, and carbon reduction) into practical product initiatives.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Work in collaboration with sustainability leaders, business stakeholders, and technical teams to identify and prioritize sustainable product opportunities.

• Product Vision & Delivery: Oversee the design and launch of digital products and services that promote responsible business practices and long-term resilience.

• Innovation & Research: Discover emerging sustainability trends and technologies, integrating them into product discovery and development processes.

• Create and expand design systems, frameworks, and patterns while advising on when and how teams should innovate beyond current systems to address changing product and business requirements.

• Address system-level challenges—including AI-driven and data-heavy experiences—by employing systems thinking and a forward-looking approach to how emerging technologies influence user interactions.

• Mentor, coach, and elevate design teams, promoting design excellence, maintaining high standards for modern, high-quality design work, and advocating for the strategic impact of design with senior and executive stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10 to 15 years of product management experience, including roles at the senior or principal level.

• Experience with products in sustainability-driven sectors such as energy, mobility, supply chain, circular economy, or ESG data and reporting.

• Profound understanding of sustainability frameworks, including SDGs, net-zero strategies, carbon accounting, or ESG principles.

• Capability to align business strategy with environmental goals and user experience.

• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with a proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders.

• Familiarity with agile design methodologies.

• Nice to Have: Experience consulting with Fortune 500 or global enterprise clients on sustainability or ESG transformation.

• Knowledge of sustainability reporting standards such as GRI, SASB, TCFD, or GHG Protocol.

• Understanding of impact measurement tools, lifecycle analysis, or sustainable innovation frameworks.

• Background in digital transformation or service design projects focused on environmental or social impact.

🏝️ Benefits

• Collaborate on exceptional work with remarkable individuals.

• Contract opportunities with potential for extension.