Principal Product Designer, AI

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About You

You’re looking for an environment, team, and role where you’ll thrive and do the best work of your career. That’s why, as a Principal Product Designer at HubSpot:

• You’ll have a “seat at the table” from Day 1. Your partners and peers know what you do, greatly value it, and expect you to have strong opinions.
• You’ll co-own a significant part of the product with your partners and you’ll all have the autonomy you need to drive its strategy and vision.
• You’ll never have to guess about how to get promoted. We support you with clear expectations and career paths.
• You’ll be able to work where and how you work best: at home, the office, or any mix of both

About the product

The AI team at HubSpot designs an AI system that enhances all aspects of our customer's business; amplifying efficiency, scaling teams and uncovering hard-to-see insights. Our AI Copilot allows for conversational engagement with the CRM, nascent Breeze AI agents are beginning to take on low-value work freeing customers to focus on strategic work, and our AI intelligence layer helps them understand their business better. This playlist shows the depth of our early investments and hints at the work to come.

Here’s what success in your role looks like

• Having deep domain knowledge across all product areas
• Being considered a master in uncovering new unmet user needs across the product
• Using knowledge of root causes to investigate new problem spaces that span multiple groups
• Having deep data analysis skills and a knack for improving our data collection systems
• Helping team members engage more deeply with data
• Modeling ways to gracefully shift gears as new information becomes available

You’ll love this role if you

• Model “thinking like an owner” in terms of how team should spend time & resources
• Enjoy tracking multiple high complexity projects and helping create visibility in these areas
• Are known for your communication artifact quality (decks, memos, etc)
• Model best practices for knowledge sharing, collaboration and facilitation
• Have a knack for helping others embrace change across multiple groups
• Master the ability to appeal on both logical and emotional fronts when selling an agenda or vision
• Clarify shared expectations across groups in service if a larger mission
• Have the proven ability to break down resistance and anticipate pitfalls
• Are experienced in fostering team health, mission, and purpose
• Can confidently deliver clear, direct, and actionable feedback—and ask for it in return
• Share our HEART values and practice growth mindset

About UX at HubSpot

Our UX team is a passionate and diverse group of ~300 product designers, content designers, researchers, and design ops folks globally who build consumer-grade experiences while solving enterprise-level problems. We’re set up to work as equal partners to our peers in product management and engineering. We design and deliver a crafted experience to our customers by setting a high bar on ease of use. We’re investing deeply in building whole and healthy UX teams across all of our disciplines so we can better solve problems for our customers.

We involve our customers in every step of our development process. We strive to deliver a B2B product that’s just as easy to use as the best B2C products on the market. When our customers grow, we grow, too.

Want to know more about product design at HubSpot?

• The possibilities of “and” — prioritizing usability alongside feature growth
• By the people, for the people: keeping your design system evergreen
• See all HubSpot UX blog posts

One more thing you should know…

There’s a lot of research showing how marginalized groups of people may not apply for jobs unless they meet 100% (or more!) of the qualifications. We also know that many UX folks come from backgrounds with different experiences that might not seem “standard”—and that’s okay! We really value people who bring unique perspectives and add new knowledge to our team.

You might not feel like you “check all the boxes” as you read this job post, but we hope you’ll apply anyway because we’ll take great care in working with you. 🧡

Cash compensation range: 197900-316600 USD Annually

This resource will help guide how we recommend thinking about the range you see. Learn more about HubSpot’s compensation philosophy.

The cash compensation above includes base salary, on-target commission for employees in eligible roles, and annual bonus targets under HubSpot’s bonus plan for eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation, some roles are eligible to participate in HubSpot’s equity plan to receive restricted stock units (RSUs). Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are based on a few different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons.

We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. To learn more about what’s included in total compensation, check out some of the benefits and perks HubSpot offers to help employees grow better.

At HubSpot, fair compensation practices isn’t just about checking off the box for legal compliance. It’s about living out our value of transparency with our employees, candidates, and community.

About You

You’re looking for an environment, team, and role where you’ll thrive and do the best work of your career. That’s why, as a Principal Product Designer at HubSpot:

• You’ll have a “seat at the table” from Day 1. Your partners and peers know what you do, greatly value it, and expect you to have strong opinions.
• You’ll co-own a significant part of the product with your partners and you’ll all have the autonomy you need to drive its strategy and vision.
• You’ll never have to guess about how to get promoted. We support you with clear expectations and career paths.
• You’ll be able to work where and how you work best: at home, the office, or any mix of both

About the product

The AI team at HubSpot designs tools that help our customers boost productivity, scale growth, and unlock actionable insights. Breeze Copilot assists customers with tasks, Breeze Agents automate customers' work and Breeze Intelligence enriches customers' data. Curious to learn more about these Breeze features? This playlist is a comprehensive guide to HubSpot's AI engine and its powerful tools to drive unified growth in today’s fast-paced world.

Here’s what success in your role looks like

• Having deep domain knowledge across all product areas
• Being considered a master in uncovering new unmet user needs across the product
• Using knowledge of root causes to investigate new problem spaces that span multiple groups
• Having deep data analysis skills and a knack for improving our data collection systems
• Helping team members engage more deeply with data
• Modeling ways to gracefully shift gears as new information becomes available

You’ll love this role if you

• Model “thinking like an owner” in terms of how team should spend time & resources
• Enjoy tracking multiple high complexity projects and helping create visibility in these areas
• Are known for your communication artifact quality (decks, memos, etc)
• Model best practices for knowledge sharing, collaboration and facilitation
• Have a knack for helping others embrace change across multiple groups
• Master the ability to appeal on both logical and emotional fronts when selling an agenda or vision
• Clarify shared expectations across groups in service if a larger mission
• Have the proven ability to break down resistance and anticipate pitfalls
• Are experienced in fostering team health, mission, and purpose
• Can confidently deliver clear, direct, and actionable feedback—and ask for it in return
• Share our HEART values and practice growth mindset

About UX at HubSpot

Our UX team is a passionate and diverse group of ~300 product designers, content designers, researchers, and design ops folks globally who build consumer-grade experiences while solving enterprise-level problems. We’re set up to work as equal partners to our peers in product management and engineering. We design and deliver a crafted experience to our customers by setting a high bar on ease of use. We’re investing deeply in building whole and healthy UX teams across all of our disciplines so we can better solve problems for our customers.

We involve our customers in every step of our development process. We strive to deliver a B2B product that’s just as easy to use as the best B2C products on the market. When our customers grow, we grow, too.

Want to know more about product design at HubSpot?

• The possibilities of “and” — prioritizing usability alongside feature growth
• By the people, for the people: keeping your design system evergreen
• See all HubSpot UX blog posts

One more thing you should know…

There’s a lot of research showing how marginalized groups of people may not apply for jobs unless they meet 100% (or more!) of the qualifications. We also know that many UX folks come from backgrounds with different experiences that might not seem “standard”—and that’s okay! We really value people who bring unique perspectives and add new knowledge to our team.

You might not feel like you “check all the boxes” as you read this job post, but we hope you’ll apply anyway because we’ll take great care in working with you. 🧡

Cash compensation range: 197900-316600 USD Annually

This resource will help guide how we recommend thinking about the range you see. Learn more about HubSpot’s compensation philosophy.

The cash compensation above includes base salary, on-target commission for employees in eligible roles, and annual bonus targets under HubSpot’s bonus plan for eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation, some roles are eligible to participate in HubSpot’s equity plan to receive restricted stock units (RSUs). Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are based on a few different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons.

We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. To learn more about what’s included in total compensation, check out some of the benefits and perks HubSpot offers to help employees grow better.

At HubSpot, fair compensation practices isn’t just about checking off the box for legal compliance. It’s about living out our value of transparency with our employees, candidates, and community.

We know theconfidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.

If you need accommodations or assistance due to a disability, please reach out to us using this form. This information will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

At HubSpot, we value both flexibility and connection. Whether you’re a Remote employee, or work from the Office, we want you to start your journey here by building strong connections with your team and peers.

If you are joining our Engineering team in a full-time role, you will be required to attend a regional HubSpot office for in-person onboarding. If you join our broader Product team, you’ll also attend other in-person events such as HubSpot’s annual PEER week, your Product Group Summit, and other in-person gatherings to continue building on those connections.

If you require an accommodation due to travel limitations or other reasons, please inform your recruiter during the hiring process. We are committed to supporting candidates who may need alternative arrangements.

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About HubSpot

HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is a leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform that provides software and support to help businesses grow better. We build marketing, sales, service, and website management products that start free and scale to meet our customers’ needs at any stage of growth. We’re also building a company culture that empowers people to do their best work. If that sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’d love to hear from you.

You can find out more about our company culture in the HubSpot Culture Code, which has more than 5M views, and learn about our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, too. Thanks to the work of every employee globally, HubSpot was named the #2 Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2022 and has been recognized for its award-winning culture by Great Place to Work, Comparably, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Inc., and more.

Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, HubSpot was founded in 2006. Today, thousands of employees across the globe work remotely and in HubSpot offices. Visit our careers website to learn more about the culture and opportunities at HubSpot.

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