Product Designer

Rent the Runway • New York, NY

7h • Hybrid

About The Position

Rent the Runway (RTR) is seeking a smart and curious Product Designer with a solid foundation in UX, UI, interaction design, and research. This role involves a proactive curiosity for leveraging AI to enhance user experience and design efficiency. As part of a pod model, Product Designers will own the end-to-end design process for specific features and product areas within their dedicated squad, advocating for the customer through discovery, design execution, and user testing. The designer will collaborate closely with their squad to deliver high-quality solutions across RTR's desktop and mobile websites, and iOS App.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience working in a mobile consumer-focused business/product
• Strong understanding of experience principles and customer needs such as motivations and behaviors, with the ability to translate them into engaging and actionable deliverables
• Ability to create and present strategic experiences that ladder up into business goals and opportunities
• Excellent verbal and written skills to be able to communicate to both technical and non-technical savvy audience members
• Ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines under pressure with little management
• Ability to critique the quality of both UX and visual designs to improve the final product experience creating immersive websites, mobile websites, mobile applications, experiential elements and paid media campaigns
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership of projects
• Experience presenting to executives and guiding decisions for new enhancements, features or redesigns
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Strong working knowledge of Figma (including prototyping) and UserTesting

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design process for specific features or small product areas within a cross-functional squad, delivering user-centric solutions with moderate autonomy.
• Deliver all stages of the user experience, from supporting product discovery and participating in vision-setting to delivering high-quality wireframes and prototypes.
• Conduct usability tests and competitive analysis to deeply understand user goals, using those insights to iterate on designs and drive improvements for your features.
• Design functional and inspirational customer experiences that prioritize user needs while meeting defined business demands and milestones.
• Speak clearly to tradeoffs and the “Why” behind design decisions in terms non-designers can understand and participate in.
• Utilize our existing design system and collaborate with the Design System designer to ensure a consistent, intuitive user experience across your feature set.
• Proactively participate in design critiques, providing constructive feedback to peers and supporting a culture of inclusive collaboration.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off including vacation, paid bereavement, and family sick leave
• Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return to work program
• Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service
• Exclusive employee subscription and rental discounts
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, FSA and dependent care from day 1 of employment
• 401k match
• Company wide events and outings
• Hybrid Work

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees