Product Designer - Future Contract Opportunities
About The Position
This is a proactive posting to help us build our network of talented contractors for anticipated project needs later this year. While we don’t have an active project for this role today, we expect opportunities to arise as our client and project needs evolve. By applying, you’ll be considered for future contract and project-based opportunities that align with your skills, experience, and areas of expertise. Our Talent team will review your background and keep your information on hand, and we’ll reach out directly if an upcoming project looks like a strong match. Because these opportunities are project-based, timing, scope, duration, and hours may vary depending on the specific engagement. For this type of work, we typically anticipate hourly rates in the range of $84-$127/hour, depending on the project scope, required expertise, and experience level. Specific project details and the applicable rate will be discussed with you when we connect about a potential opportunity.
Requirements
- Experience leading the design efforts for one or more successful – successfully shipped or successfully downloaded – online or mobile products.
- Ability to walk us through your portfolio and tell a compelling story about the hard decisions and compromises you had to make along the way.
- Strong understanding of HTML, Javascript, and CSS.
- Comfortable jumping into the command line, your editor of choice, or a chair next to a developer to make things happen.
- Understanding of UI best practices.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate persuasively across different audiences to diverse people at varying levels of an organization.
- Insatiable curiosity and a constant drive to do and be better.
Nice To Haves
- You see prototypes as just another means of communication.
- You don’t try to reinvent dropdowns with each new project.
- You want the interface to look as polished as possible, but you also value a good hard deadline.
- You download new apps and take screenshots.
- You try out new design tools.
- You attend industry events.
- You do stuff on the side.
- You love what you do, want to be great at it, and know there’s always something new to learn.
Responsibilities
- Conceptualize and craft seamless user experiences that support business objectives.
- Be involved in product strategy from the very beginning, offering knowledge and unique expertise to help shape product direction and turn ideas and concepts into a workable design.
- Produce wireframes, prototypes, style guides and hi-fidelity designs to explore, experiment and ultimately advocate for simple, elegant solutions to complex problems.
- Balance pixel-perfect attention to detail with low-fidelity design choices.
- Build consensus and achieve buy-in through meetings and presentations.
- Design and pitch your work.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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