Principal Product Designer (Social)

TL;DR

Principal Product Designer (Social): Shaping how hirify.global players socialize, communicate, and connect across immersive experiences with an accent on leading design for a key product area, owning end-to-end execution from early discovery through launch and iteration. Focus on translating complex requirements, including safety and policy constraints, into clear user-centered product solutions and driving alignment across cross-functional partners.

Location: Hybrid in San Mateo, CA, United States (onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday).

Salary: $304,560–$362,740 USD annually

Company

hirify.global is a platform empowering a global community of developers and creators to bring immersive 3D digital experiences to life, aiming to connect a billion people with optimism and civility.

What you will do

• Lead design for a core area of hirify.global Social, creating experiences that help users connect and communicate meaningfully.
• Own end-to-end feature design: research synthesis, concept exploration, prototyping, interaction design, visual polish, and final specs.
• Translate complex requirements, including safety and policy constraints, into clear, user-centered product solutions.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to shape roadmaps, define requirements, and drive decisions through tradeoffs.
• Collaborate with Research and Data Science to define success metrics, learn from experiments, and iterate based on insights.
• Ensure high-quality implementation through close collaboration with engineering and strong attention to detail.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience as a UX/Product Designer, including experience leading projects independently.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong craft, end-to-end product thinking, and shipped work with clear user and business impact.
• Experience designing consumer products, ideally in social, communication, community, or identity spaces.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive alignment across cross-functional partners.
• A Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Ergonomics, or equivalent practical experience.
• Must be based at headquarters in San Mateo, CA for hybrid work.

Nice to have

• Strong storytelling skills: Can clearly communicate design rationale to exec and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Comfort designing across platforms (mobile, desktop, console/10ft).
• Experience building scalable patterns or contributing to design systems.
• Experience designing for safety-by-default systems (filtering, reporting, consent, privacy, integrity).

Culture & Benefits

• Shape the future of human interaction and solve unique technical challenges at scale.
• Create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
• Work in a hybrid model with required onsite presence Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.
• Eligible for equity compensation and full-time employee benefits.