Lead Product Designer (Contract Talent)

Robert Half•San Ramon, CA

4d•Remote

About The Position

Robert Half, one of FORTUNE’s World’s Most Admired Companies and a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For is hiring for a Lead Product Designer (Contract Talent) to join the Experience Design department. Are you curious about people and motivated to design product and service experiences that help people find their dream jobs? Come join our Product Design team of tinkerers, prototypers, and researchers and apply human-centered design to re-imagine a marketplace for talent around the world for our candidates, staffing professionals, and clients. We’re seeking a Lead Product Designer who is a great product thinker, passionate about user interface design, and cares about making a meaningful impact for people. As a Lead Product Designer, you’ll be part of a product “squad” and involved in all aspects of the product design process: framing problems, understanding human behavior through design research, conceptualizing and prototyping early ideas, helping envision future “north star” directions, creating high-res designs and workflows, and collaborating highly with product management, engineering, your own peers, and more!

Requirements

High degree of craft for all aspects of product design: user research, prototyping, interaction and visual design
Collaborate closely with product owners, engineers and user research to create a vision for your product area and bring others along in your thinking
Expert knowledge in design tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD
Capacity to create innovative end-to-end experiences across multiple channels (including web and mobile) that are grounded in human insight, data and business goals
Experience using analytics, user research and other approaches to help make decisions and iterate on the product
Experience working with, designing, or maintaining design systems
Experience working with distributed teams
Experience working with product management and engineering teams
Experience leading or facilitating workshops, design sprints, and design studios

Nice To Haves

Western time zone is a plus.

Responsibilities

Craft clarity from ambiguity
Drive meaningful product outcomes working closely with Product and Engineering peers
Collaborate and communicate design effectively across multiple functions in the organization
Ability to influence others and build consensus, while dealing with ambiguity
Systems thinker and ability to see the whole ecosystem and provide solutions that better the entire user flow not just the feature
Be perceived as a leader in your “squad” that advocates for and applies human-centered design practices