Principal UX Designer

About this role

Principal UX Designer

PlanHub is the leading pre-construction SaaS platform and marketplace helping general contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers connect and grow their businesses. Built with tradespeople in mind, PlanHub is designed around the user workflow to help boost productivity, maintain deadlines, increase revenue, and create relationships. Easily post projects or submit bids with anytime-anywhere collaboration for every commercial construction trade.

We are seeking a talented, highly motivated, and outcome-driven Principal UX Designer to join our product team. This hands-on people leader role will lead the product design team, driving strategic design initiatives that directly impact our user experience, business growth, and product innovation while rolling up sleeves to execute on deliverables as needed. This position will partner with stakeholders across the business to shape product strategies and translate them into compelling assets that include an impactful visual experience for our customer base.

In this role, you will:

• Evolve and implement a comprehensive UX strategy for PlanHub product ecosystem
• Build and lead a high-performing UX team, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment that supports continuous UX improvements.
• Promote human-centered design thinking throughout PlanHub
• Become a true ally to your peers in Product Management, Engineering, Marketing and Sales organizations.
• Own the UX process: from blue sky research to implementation and beyond
• Measure the impact of UX decisions on user behavior and business outcomes, and relentlessly prioritize work based on those measurements.

You should have:

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in the field, at least 5 years in a similar strategic level role
• Deep understanding of HCD processes, methods, and best practices.
• Demonstrated experience fostering outcome-led product development practices
• Focus on data-driven experimentation and informed decision...