Product Design Lead

We’re looking for a Product Design Lead to join Procore’s Product & Technology Team—a customer-centric group encompassing engineering, product, design, data, security, and business systems. Procore software aims to improve the lives of everyone in construction, and our people are the driving force behind this innovative, top-rated global platform.

In this role, you will be the "design captain" for one of our key product areas, owning design outcomes end-to-end. You’ll serve as a strategic partner to Product and Engineering, directly shaping priorities and tradeoffs to ensure user value drives the roadmap. This is a player-coach role: you are an experienced designer deeply embedded in the work, anchored to craft leadership rather than hands-off administration. Reporting to the senior Product Leader for your area, you will place Design at the center of strategy and execution.

This position reports to the Senior Director of Product and will be based in our Austin, TX office. We’re looking for someone to join us immediately.

What You’ll Do

1. Design Ownership & Strategic Partnership

• Own the "Why": Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to translate business objectives into clear, user-centered design direction. You are accountable for the quality, coherence, and impact of your product area over time.

• Drive Insight-Led Decisions: Develop a deep understanding of real customer workflows by engaging directly with users. You do not delegate insight; you use evidence from the field to clarify tradeoffs and represent the customer reality in every decision.

• Navigate Complexity: Oversee the design strategy for strategic areas such as Pay, Owners, or Quality and Safety. You will make the hard calls to ensure the direction is sound, cohesive, and grounded in evidence.

2. Hands-On Craft & Decision Making

• Lead Through the Work: Stay "in the files" and in discovery. You step in directly when problems are ambiguous, quality is at risk, or the team needs strong direction.

• Rapid Validation: Treat design as a series of testable hypotheses. Use high-fidelity prototyping and modern tooling—including AI—to explore, validate, and increase velocity without sacrificing quality.

• Balance Progress and Precision: Guide the team through tradeoffs between speed and quality, ensuring we ship to learn while protecting the integrity of the experience.

3. Team Leadership as Leverage

• Manage to Raise the Bar: Manage a small group of IC designers primarily to improve the quality of thinking and craft. You teach through critique, pairing, and direct involvement.

• Direct the Effort: Collaborate closely with designers to clarify how their work connects to business outcomes. This includes maximizing the "Flex" team by onboarding them and directing them toward the thorniest challenges.

At Procore, AI isn’t a specialized tool, it's a core competency. We expect every team member to be AI-literate, leveraging generative tools and agentic workflows to move faster and work smarter. You won’t just use AI; you’ll be building the agentic future of construction.

What We’re Looking For

• A Designer First: You bring 10+ years of experience in Product Design, with a track record of shipping high-quality B2B or enterprise products. You have the "design savvy" to move work forward and know when to invite debate versus when to decide.

• Customer-Obsessed & Pragmatic: You are relentless about making the user's life easier, but you value impact over dogma. You know when to push for excellence and when to move forward in service of outcomes.

• Business Fluent: You understand how SaaS products succeed and can articulate design decisions in terms of customer value, retention, and ROI.

• Technically Proficient: You are an expert in Figma and are comfortable using AI and modern design tools to accelerate discovery and validation.

• Accountable Partner: You optimize for collective success and are comfortable standing behind the work as part of a cross-functional leadership team.

This role is well-suited for principal-level designers who want deeper ownership and are open to people management as a way to amplify their impact.

Why Join This Team?

At Procore, Design is a core driver of product and business success. In this role, you will own a meaningful area of the product, work closely with senior leaders, and have the authority to shape real outcomes. You will operate in an environment that values customer-centricity, judgment, craft, and pragmatism, and where design leadership means making things better.

Base Pay Range:

This role may also be eligible for Equity Compensation and/or Bonus Incentive Compensation. Procore is committed to offering competitive, fair, and commensurate compensation. Actual compensation will be based on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, education or training, and location.

Procore will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

A criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: 1. appropriately managing, accessing, and handling confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information, as well as accessing Procore's information technology systems and platforms; 2. interacting with and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external customers, stakeholders, and/or colleagues; and 3. exercising sound judgment.