Principal Designer

Pixelmatters is a digital product studio. We're a team of strategists, designers, and engineers creating top-quality digital products.

Our mission is to empower businesses to achieve their full potential by creating top-quality digital products, while fostering great relationships along the way. We envision a world where great user experience is the norm, not the exception, inspiring businesses and people to be at their best.

We're looking for you — a great communicator, flexible, and methodic Principal Designer. A team player who likes to work in a fast-paced agile environment.

Design is the core and foundation of everything we do at Pixelmatters. We're a design-driven company, always looking for ways to improve our processes and deliver the best possible experiences on the projects we work on. Now, we're looking to expand the Design team with an experienced Principal Designer. And here is where you come in...


Your role is responsible for enabling the design team's success through the implementation of processes, operational best practices and by supporting the team's day-to-day deliveries. You will also manage both Product and UX Designers, helping their struggles, skills development and reach their goals. You're craft-oriented and set the bar on the projects' quality, making sure design outputs meet a top-notch quality. You excel at communication, with pragmatism, and manage expectations promptly.

Some of your day-to-day tasks will include active mentorship and design feedback sessions with direct reports' to ensure craft quality, supervise the team's projects and their workflow to make sure the processes are the most appropriate, support projects with strategic input, report the general status and quality of the projects to the Head of Design and write departmental documentation. Additionally, you will be part of evaluation processes of direct reports and responsible for continuously auditing the design workflows.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience as a Principal Designer, Design Manager or similar, having also worked as a Product Designer or similar
• Clear, cohesive, and proactive communicator
• Great understanding of English and Portuguese (written and spoken)
• Knowledge across UX and UI and able to understand the challenges of both areas
• Understanding of design processes, current tools (such as Figma) and common challenges usually faced during a product design lifecycle
• Capable of facilitating effective feedback sessions, clearly articulate design rationale, and communicate strategic insights.
• Strong supervisory, mentoring and leadership skills
• Solid conflict resolution skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Solid emotional intelligence levels, with capability to create empathy and build trust among designers, teams, and clients
• Ability to assess team skills and strengths, leveraging them strategically to achieve goals and maximize impact
  
  
  

It would be awesome if you also have...

• Experience in recruitment processes
• Experience documenting, auditing and improving design processes
  
  
  

Benefits

• Quality-driven, inspiring, and collaborative work environment, where Good is not good enough.
• Benefits, including health insurance
• A beautiful office located at Porto's downtown, while continuing to support our "Remote as default, Office as an option" policy
  
  
  

Compensation

• The salary range from this role is between €43,489.00 to €66,589.00 annual gross, which includes meal, vacation and Xmas allowances