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Salary: USD 280,000 - 310,000 / annual
Linktree is seeking a Principal Product Designer Lead to manage and grow a team of 3–5+ senior individual-contributor designers while remaining hands-on with design work. This is a player-coach role where you'll set design vision and craft standards for your area, personally own some of the hardest or most ambiguous design problems, and help scale design across the company as it grows.
You'll lead a small team of senior designers, coaching and developing them while maintaining high craft standards. You'll partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Marketing leaders to align design with business priorities, own hiring and team composition, and establish design operating rhythms and critique practices. The role balances individual design contribution with management responsibilities—you'll model the standard you expect while growing the people around you.
Linktree is a creator platform used by 70+ million people, including major brands like Adidas, TikTok, the UN Environmental Program, the NFL, and Manchester United. The company has created the "link in bio" category and is the fastest-growing leader in its space, with 48,000 new accounts created daily. You'll be shaping how creators discover, organize, and share content on a platform at significant scale.
The company operates globally with offices in London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, and San Francisco. You can work fully remote or hybrid, with flexibility in how you structure your time. The culture emphasizes async work, family-friendliness, and autonomy.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 10+ years of design experience, including prior experience managing and growing individual contributors (managing managers is a plus but not required)
- Proven track record of shipping high-quality design within a consumer product or creator/marketplace platform
- Strong craft judgment and ability to provide feedback that elevates team work
- Demonstrable use of AI as part of design exploration, prototyping, communication, and creation
- Demonstrated ability to hire, coach, develop, and retain strong senior individual-contributor designers
- Experience partnering with Product, Engineering, and Marketing leaders
- Proven ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear design direction
- Comfort balancing personal craft work with team leadership and good judgment on when to do versus delegate
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Player-coach mindset: hands-on and excellent at craft, energized by both doing the work and developing others
