Principal Product Designer, Workforce Solutions

At QuickBooks, world-class design drives the success of small businesses and self-employed individuals around the world. Our designers play a key role at every stage of the product lifecycle, from gathering insights to delivering pixel-perfect experiences. We use machine learning and AI to create intuitive, delightful interactions that help our customers succeed.

Join the QuickBooks Workforce Solutions team as a Principal Product Designer and shape the future of the Workforce experience. You will lead big initiatives, balancing design strategy, creative direction, and hands-on craft to deliver exceptional, human-centered experiences.

Design is central to how we operate at Intuit. We partner closely with product management and engineering to define and deliver a cohesive vision for our customers. You will apply a deep understanding of customer behavior, design systems, and data-driven insights to guide design decisions and collaborate across teams to create seamless, high-quality experiences throughout our ecosystem.

 


Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end design efforts for the Workforce Solutions segment

  • Manage multiple projects with strong communication, organization, and time management

  • Set and maintain a high bar for quality while enabling teams to move quickly

  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and cross-functional partners to help drive and influence product vision and strategy

  • Use iterative prototyping to test concepts, validate ideas, and learn quickly from customers

  • Promote a culture of constructive critique grounded in design rationale, customer insights, and best practices

  • Mentor early- and mid-career designers, supporting their craft and cross-functional collaboration

  • Communicate effectively to inspire and align stakeholders, using stories and visuals to evoke emotional responses

  • Drive design decisions through data in partnership with analytics teams

 


Qualifications

  • Proven experience designing complex products with cross-product dependencies

  • Deep expertise in user interface, interaction, content, and visual design with a strong record of delivering high-quality results

  • Successful track record leading large-scale design initiatives that balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints

  • Skilled storyteller who can articulate the team’s vision, mission, and purpose to inspire and align others

  • Uncanny ability to rally teams across a complex organization around a shared vision

  • Knowledgeable about design trends in mobile, web, and AI with experience designing for accessibility and usability

  • Experience contributing to and working within robust design systems

  • Comfortable leading user research, running tests, analyzing data, and applying both evaluative and generative methods

  • Proficient in using analytics to derive actionable insights and measure KPIs, to inform design strategies and influence business decisions

  • Experienced in environments that emphasize rapid experimentation and iteration

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field

  • A portfolio demonstrating strong design craft, process, and strategic thinking

 


Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is: 

Bay Area: $229,000- $309,500



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