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Principal UX Designer
Workwize · Amsterdam
About the role
At Workwize, we’re helping IT teams to easily equip their remote and global teams with all necessary IT equipment. Our automated SaaS platform simplifies hardware deployment, management, and retrieval with fast, reliable deliveries in 100+ countries.
With 50.000 users and 120.000 devices under management, we’re solving hybrid work challenges like laptop deliveries, returns and equipment tracking, allowing IT teams to focus less on manual hassles and more on strategic initiatives.
Join our team to help shape the future of global collaboration. At Workwize, your work will make a real impact in building smarter, more connected workplaces worldwide.
LinkedIn has also recognized Workwize as one of the Top 10 Startups for 2025 in the Netherlands!
About the Role
We are looking for a UX Principal who will be pivotal in shaping how users experience Workwize. You’ll collaborate closely with our Head of Product and design team to discover and define great product solutions, leveraging user-centric design, data-driven insights, and a relentless focus on delivering value. Your work will directly impact the efficiency of IT managers worldwide, transforming complex workflows into intuitive, frictionless experiences.
What you will do
- Hands-on, designing our most strategic work, starting with our agentic experience.
- Drive our design system to completion and full adoption, owning the standards and principles behind it.
- Set the craft bar across the product org through design direction, critique, and clear principles.
- Lift the team's craft through critique, mentorship, and pairing. This is craft coaching, not people management.
- Define design direction across complex, multi-team product areas, spotting the high-leverage opportunities.
- Lead our move to AI-native workflows, using emerging tools to speed concept-to-production and define new ways of working.
- Work tightly with Product and Engineering to make fast decisions, ship with urgency, and advocate for customers.
What they look for
- 10+ years of product design experience, with meaningful time at staff or principal level or equivalent scope.
- Strong portfolio of B2B product work, with a track record of leading discovery and research.
- Exceptional craft, creativity, and taste, consistently producing work that pushes product quality and brand forward.
- A proven track record of leading high-impact product work across complex, multi-team problem spaces, with strong product judgment and influence over strategy and direction.
- A history of raising the craft bar in others through critique, mentorship, and design leadership, without formal authority.
- Able to set the standards and principles that lift design quality across the product org.
- Able to think from first principles, not just apply standard UX process.
- A strong communicator who articulates design decisions clearly and influences without managing.
- Experience working closely with engineering and using emerging AI-native tools to evolve how products are built.
The Right Mindset
- Proactive self-starter.
- Strong communicator.
- Ability to manage competing priorities
Workwize Offers
- Flexible hybrid work environment.
- Top-notch tools and equipment provided.
- Vibrant, entrepreneurial culture with opportunities for growth.
- Off-sites and multi-yearly team bonding events.
- Team lunches and surprise events to keep things fun.
- Pension scheme.
- Classpass corporate membership.
Our Team
Becoming part of Workwize means making an impact. We make sure that we will contribute to the change in the way of working. For us it is also important that we make an impact on our employees, that they feel challenged and ease. We consist of a rapid growing and ambitious team with all different backgrounds. Entrepreneurs, Operational specialists, Developers, Sales gurus you can find them all at Workwize and are always on the look-out for the next original ideas to reach more consumers and create the best value for our customers.
We are looking forward to meeting you and discover if there is a match with the Workwize team!