Principal Designer at Mews

The role

This is a senior individual contributor role focused on building and maintaining the foundational design substrate across the entire division. You will develop the systems, architectural standards, and shared agents that allow multiple tribes to scale efficiently while remaining coherent.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain the shared design foundation including the design system and research engines
• Develop a multi-year vision for design needs and drive its implementation with conviction
• Partner with Staff Designers to ensure tribe-level substrates compose into a coherent whole
• Solve complex cross-tribe design problems as a direct partner to the Vice President
• Provide craft feedback and calibration for Director and Staff Designer performance reviews
• Encode design judgment into reusable systems like components and AI-driven agents

What you'll bring

• Proven track record of shipping high-quality design work with demonstrable taste
• Ability to think across multiple years and encode strategy into lasting systems
• Genuine satisfaction in performing unglamorous connective-tissue and substrate work
• High AI fluency with the ability to build leverage through systematized research
• Experience acting as a force-multiplier for executives without needing formal authority

Your impact

You will create the architectural standards and shared systems that prevent design drift as the company scales. By encoding judgment into reusable patterns and agents, you will significantly raise the quality and efficiency of design work across all product tribes.