Principal UX/UI Designer

The posting, as Impinj wrote it

Impinj delivers the Physical Intelligence that connects the physical world to the AI-powered digital world, fueling automated workflows and improving consumer experiences. From retail merchandise and groceries to packages and shipping pallets, Impinj products and solutions identify and track tens of billions of everyday items, providing real-time operational insights about every item enterprises make, move and sell. We are, quite literally, the eyes and ears of smart enterprise systems. Come help us build technology and solutions that enable businesses to visualize everything, waste nothing and act instantly.

Team Overview

Impinj is seeking a Principal UX/UI Designer to set the design direction for our software-based solutions. You will be the founding member of a new design team and will have the opportunity to shape early design practices and standards. You will own the end-to-end experience for our suite of products, define the design system and interaction standards others build against, and partner directly with Product, Engineering, and Innovation leadership to shape the roadmap. This is a hands-on craft role with organization-wide influence and internal thought leadership.

What You Will Do

• Own the end-to-end user experience, from problem framing and concept exploration through high-fidelity design and production handoff
• Set and evolve the design language, component library, and interaction patterns used across the product portfolio, establishing foundational practices and frameworks for the organization
• Lead discovery and definition on ambiguous, high-stakes problems, translating business objectives and user research into clear design strategy
• Partner with Product Management and Engineering leadership to influence roadmap priorities, scope, and technical trade-offs
• Work closely with engineering teams to understand constraints and make tradeoffs, helping define feature details decomposed into stories
• Plan and interpret user research and usability testing in partnership with our go-to-market organization; validate design decisions with qualitative and quantitative signals
• Serve as the trusted advisor to executive leadership on design maturity and UX priorities, and represent design in executive reviews, articulating rationale, trade-offs, and measurable impact to senior stakeholders
• Identify and resolve systemic UX debt, inconsistency, and friction across the product surface
• Mentor and upskill engineers and product managers on UX fundamentals and craft, raising the design fluency of the organization

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in design, HCI, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 15+ years of professional UX/UI or product design experience, including 3+ years at a Staff, Principal, or equivalent senior IC level
• Portfolio demonstrating shipped, end-to-end work on complex B2B enterprise products, both browser-based and mobile with clear articulation of problems, process

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Why work at Impinj:

Know you’re making a difference. Competitive benefits. Support for remote work or a desk with a view. Weekly Q&A sessions with our executive team. Impinj provides an environment that fosters openness and innovation and is developing technology that delivers a positive impact on the world. Collaboration and teamwork are highly valued, and accomplishments are duly celebrated. We have an open paid time-off policy paired with a respect for work/life balance. Our headquarters is located in Seattle with spectacular views of the Olympics, Lake Union, and Mt Baker, which can be enjoyed from our rooftop deck. Our Brazilian site is in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, at “Tecnopuc,” a technology park that offers a very nice workplace for the development of groundbreaking technologies. Impinj is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

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