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Principal Designer

Multiplayer Studio

WorldwideremotePosted today

Skill Required

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Key highlights

$160,000 - $200,000 annually
10 years full-time industry experience as a product designer
Work from anywhere
Annual 15% discretionary bonus
Must have a minimum 3-hour overlap with Toronto EST timezone

Role overview

Multiplayer is a design studio that builds products for people, partnering with clients to develop their internal design capabilities while fostering happiness in culture and client relationships. We believe happiness drives better performance, thinking, and achievement—a principle we call Happiness by Design. We are seeking a Principal Designer to define and uphold standards of excellence across the studio, setting design vision and strategy for complex products, advising leads and senior leads, and representing the studio at high-level client and industry engagements. The role requires strong visual design skills, the ability to influence without authority, and experience scaling design frameworks and practices.

Responsibilities

Uphold the studio’s standard of what excellence looks like, and create the conditions for it to be repeatable and scalable.
Hold a level of specialization in visual design that is recognized beyond the studio, by clients, peers, and the broader design industry.
Set design vision and strategy for clients, and tie it back to their business goals.
Work across a portfolio of large, complex products.
Advise Leads and Senior Leads on design strategy and approach across their projects.
Bring clients and our designers together and get everyone aligned in the same direction, often influencing without direct authority.
Develop frameworks or principles that embed quality into how the studio operates, not just how individuals work.
Identify where the studio’s design standards and practices need to evolve in response to shifts in client needs, AI, technology, or industry norms, and lead that evolution proactively.
Communicate at the Director, VP, and C-suite level with confidence, translating design perspective into business and organizational language.
Use storytelling to bring the design vision to life, building buy-in with clients and uniting teams.
Represent the studio at the highest-profile external moments, such as keynotes, panels, and major publications.
Support business development by lending design credibility to client conversations and pitches.
Embrace and contribute to our culture of continuous creative improvement, innovation, and excellence, and always search for ways to help make a positive impact on the team!