Principal UX Designer

Employment Type: Full-Time

Position Overview

Minted is seeking a highly influential Principal UX Designer to define our shopping experience vision and tackle complex business challenges across our entire web and mobile commerce experience. This role will focus on features such as search, recommendations, navigation, pricing, promotions, and landing pages. The goal is to define and build a premium shopping experience that supports all of Minted’s product lines and consumer segments, emphasizing the premium quality of our products, our role in consumers' lives, and introducing new product lines. You will collaborate extensively with cross-functional partners, guide design execution with pragmatism and adaptability, and mentor others to solve Minted's toughest problems in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Define the overall UX vision and strategy, aligning it with business goals and influencing the product roadmap.
• Champion a user-centered approach, using research and empathy to advocate for customer and artist needs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally (product, engineering, brand, research) ensuring brand consistency and stakeholder alignment.
• Lead concepting and prototyping for new features, focusing on mobile-first principles and core funnel optimization (navigation, IA).
• Design and facilitate workshops (e.g., discovery, ideation, strategy alignment) that effectively engage cross-functional teams and drive towards user-centered outcomes, solutions, or strategic clarity.
• Mentor designers and partners, fostering their growth in design thinking.
• Help prioritize design work based on user needs and establish systems to communicate those needs.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading design strategy to address high-stakes business challenges.
• Proven experience designing for e-commerce platforms across desktop, mobile web, and native mobile applications.
• Experience as a mentor who enjoys helping others grow.
• Expertise in user-centric design, research methodologies (qual/quant), interaction/visual design, user behavior, and current trends (especially mobile-first).
• Strong storytelling ability to bridge current and future user journeys.
• At least 5 years of relevant UX experience.
• Proficient with design and collaboration tools (Figma, user testing, Confluence, Google Suite).
• An expert communicator, skilled in building alignment and connecting decisions to research and goals.
• Adept at balancing multiple projects and comfortable shifting between strategic and tactical work.
• Open, collaborative, listen well, and skilled at gracefully challenging ideas.
• Resourceful and adaptable, adept at navigating ambiguity and driving impact within a dynamic and evolving business environment.
• Pragmatic and outcome-oriented, with a strong sense of when to prioritize speed and iterative learning versus investing in foundational, scalable solutions.

Compensation

Salary Ranges:

• Geo Base Full Salary Range 0 - Includes SF Bay Area: $170,880 - $224,280
• Geo Base Full Salary Range 1 - All non-SF CA, DC, NY: $157,210 - $206,338
• Geo Base Full Salary Range 2 - Includes CO, IL, MA, MD, NJ, OR, RI, TX, VT, VA, WA: $145,248 - $190,638
• Geo Base Full Salary Range 3 - Includes AL, AK, AZ, AR, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, NH, NC, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, UT, WI, WV, WY: $133,286 - $174,938

Note: Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience, associated job responsibilities, and/or other business or organizational needs. The compensation range for the role applies to employment offers from Minted. Our employment offers fall between the minimum and midpoint of the range to allow for continued salary growth during your employment at Minted. The upper half of the range accommodates this growth and supports our intention to create an environment that encourages lasting relationships between Minted and our employees.

Company Information

• Company: Minted
• Location Type: (Not specified)