[Hiring] Principal Product Designer @Safeguard Global

Role Description

At Safeguard Global, we’re building a suite of connected digital products that help global businesses hire, manage, and pay people anywhere. We’re looking for a Principal Product Designer to join our design team and lead design across multiple product areas. This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll shape product direction, raise the quality bar, and guide a team of designers while staying close to the work yourself.

A key focus will be designing intelligent, efficient workflows that help users move through complex tasks with clarity and confidence. As we evolve, you’ll play a central role in how we integrate AI into the product experience not as a layer on top, but embedded in how the product works. From anticipating user needs to simplifying decisions, you’ll help define what that looks like.

• Own and drive design across multiple product teams—from discovery to delivery—setting direction and ensuring quality.
• Shape product strategy in close partnership with product and engineering, aligning user needs with business goals.
• Design end-to-end experiences and deliver high-quality UI, staying hands-on from concept to implementation.
• Guide and support senior designers through feedback, mentorship, and clear direction—helping them grow and do their best work.
• Raise the bar for design across the organization, improving quality, consistency, and craft.
• Help define and evolve our design practice processes, rituals, and ways of working.
• Drive design awareness across the company shifting to a product-led mindset where design sets the bar and keeps us ahead.

Qualifications

• A strong portfolio that shows both strategic thinking and high-quality execution.
• 8–10+ years of experience designing complex digital products, ideally in B2B or enterprise SaaS.
• Experience leading or mentoring designers and influencing teams without formal authority.
• Confidence working across the full product lifecycle, from ambiguity to shipped outcomes.
• Strong communication skills you can clearly explain decisions and bring others along.
• A hands-on mindset. You like being in the work, not just talking about it.

Requirements

• You balance strategy and execution you think big, but care about details.
• You’re comfortable leading through influence, not hierarchy.
• You’re a systems thinker who sees how decisions scale across products and teams.
• You care about building teams, not just products.
• You’re excited to help shape the future of design at Safeguard Global.
• Experience shaping teams, hiring, or building design culture is a strong plus.

Benefits

• Work in Any Way: Flexibility in how, when, and where you work.
• Global Team: Join a diverse, international group of talented colleagues.
• Learning & Growth: Access to learning platforms and development opportunities.
• Reward & Recognition: Competitive compensation, annual bonus scheme, and more.
• Purpose & Impact: Contribute to meaningful products that empower people and businesses around the world.