Principal Designer

The role

You will own and develop product and service design disciplines within Applied AI. You will deliver client engagements and build an entrepreneurial design function while partnering with executive-level clients.

What you will do

• Owning and developing product and service design disciplines at individual and organisational levels
• Delivering billable client engagements by anchoring project deliverables and shaping work
• Building influential executive relationships across client leadership teams
• Defining skill frameworks for talent acquisition, career progression, and team development
• Partnering with business development teams to identify product opportunities and structure teams
• Advocating for the value of design to integrate human-centred design into AI-driven products

Required qualifications

• Proven leadership experience shaping design capabilities and building teams
• Strong consulting craft and client-facing confidence
• Deep expertise in product or service design
• Strong emphasis on user experience, product architecture, and human-centred solutions
• Thoughtful, pragmatic perspective on data and AI-powered products
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Ability to balance hands-on strategic project delivery with team mentorship

About the company

Faculty was established in 2014 to transform performance through human-centric AI. They work with global customers across government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences and defence.