Principal Product Designer

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

📋 Description

• Articulate and steer the product and experience strategy across vast, complex problem areas, emphasizing the transformation of intricate, data-rich ecosystems into straightforward, scalable, and user-friendly experiences.

• Strategic Leadership: Establish and guide product strategy that aligns with sustainability objectives and quantifiable impact results.

• Sustainability Expertise: Convert sustainability frameworks (e.g., ESG reporting, circular economy, carbon reduction) into actionable product initiatives.

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

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

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

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

• Address system-level challenges—including AI-driven and data-intensive experiences—utilizing systems thinking and a forward-looking approach regarding how emerging technologies influence user interactions.

• Mentor, coach, and uplift design teams while promoting design excellence, establishing a high standard for contemporary, high-quality design craft, and advocating for the strategic impact of design with senior and executive stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10–15 years of experience in product management, including senior or principal-level positions.

• Background in sustainability-focused product domains, 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 connect business strategy, environmental goals, and user experience.

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

• Experience with agile design methodologies.

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

• Familiarity with sustainability reporting standards such as GRI, SASB, TCFD, or GHG Protocol.

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

• Experience in digital transformation or service design projects with an environmental or social impact.

🏝️ Benefits

• Collaborate on extraordinary work with exceptional people.

• Contract with the possibility of extension.