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Senior Product Designer (PLM Solutions Design)
Boston, MA (Hybrid)
Impact
Our world is transforming, and PTC is leading the way. Our software brings the physical and digital worlds together, enabling companies to improve operations, create better products, and empower people in all aspects of their business.
This is an opportunity to redefine the user experience of Windchill, a market-leading PLM solution used by global manufacturing organizations. Our team is working on modernizing the product for a new generation of users, introducing more intuitive workflows, scalable design patterns, and AI-driven experiences that empower users to work more efficiently and make better decisions.
About the Role
As a Senior Product Designer on PLM Solutions Design team, you will lead end-to-end design for critical areas of Windchill, shaping both the user experience and the direction of the product. You’ll work closely with Product Management and Engineering to define problems, explore solutions, and deliver high-quality outcomes in a highly complex domain. You will work closely with other designers on the team and beyond to contribute to the evolution of our design system and help establish patterns and best practices that scale across teams and products.
In this role, you will:
- Lead end-to-end complex product experience design projects, defining interaction, behavior, workflows and information architecture for Windchill NextGen UX.
- Plan and execute structured discovery and usability research, validate design concepts with the users to ensure design decisions are rooted in solving real user problems
- Influence roadmap prioritization through user insights and design direction
- Collaborate closely with a global team of product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver valuable, high-quality features that balance product requirements, technical constraints, and user needs and motivations.
- Leverage and contribute to PTC’s design system to ensure a cohesive experience across the PTC product suite
- Advocate for high-quality design and help raise the bar through collaboration, critique, and shared standards
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in HCI/UX, Human Factors, Interaction Design, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years of professional product design experience.
- A portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design, from discovery through delivery, including complex workflows and shipped outcomes.
Skills and preferred qualifications
- Strong ability to synthesize user research, product requirements, and technical constraints into clear design solutions
- Ability to communicate, articulate your design decisions, advocate for the users in prioritization conversations, and consider feedback from product managers, engineers, and other designers.
- Expertise designing rich interactive applications for web and/or desktop.
- Adept with tools like Figma (preferred) or Adobe Creative Suite.
Bonus skills (a plus, but not required)
- Experience in PLM or other industrial / data-heavy enterprise software
Compensation (CIP)
PTC carefully considers a wide variety of factors when determining compensation. The anticipated annual salary range for this position is between $102,500 - 135,000. The salary range reflects a good-faith estimate of compensation at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on a candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Additionally, candidates may be eligible for a performance-based bonus. Employees also have the opportunity to become a PTC shareholder through our employee share purchase program (ESPP), which allows for the purchase of discounted PTC stock. Certain roles may also be eligible for participation in our equity programs. Employees may be eligible for medical, dental and vision insurance, paid time off and sick leave, tuition reimbursement, 401(k) contributions and employer match, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage and, if you are an office-assigned employee, a generous commuter subsidy. All total rewards and benefits programs are subject to applicable plan eligibility and other terms and conditions.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in HCI/UX, Human Factors, Interaction Design, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years of professional product design experience.
- A portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design, from discovery through delivery, including complex workflows and shipped outcomes.
PTC Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about PTC and has not been reviewed or approved by PTC.
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Healthcare Strength — Pay is frequently described as paired with good insurance and generally good benefits, suggesting core medical coverage is a meaningful part of the value proposition. The benefits package is framed as comprehensive across health, disability, and employee assistance supports.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a clear strength, with a company-matched 401(k) plan repeatedly included as a standard part of the rewards package. Stock purchase and equity programs are also presented as available pathways to longer-term wealth building.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off appears comparatively robust, including sizable vacation accrual for new hires along with wellness/sick time and additional holiday-style programs. Flexibility options like remote work and schedule flexibility reinforce the sense of a benefits-heavy total rewards design.
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