Product Designer

Artera • Boston, MA

22h • $114,000 - $156,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Artera is seeking a mid-level Product Designer to tackle all aspects of the design process. This is a multidisciplinary role that includes research, interaction design, prototyping, and visual design while working with agile cross-functional teams across multi-device experiences.

We are looking for a product-minded designer who is able to look deeply at holistic user experiences, device ecosystems, and be able to align that to business objectives. This means exercising good judgment in assessing inputs from teammates, synthesizing these inputs into complete designs, and prioritizing tasks based on desired outcomes.

This role will contribute to how we define design processes, interaction models, and visual systems, in service of creating exceptional digital product experiences.

Requirements

• 4+ years of working experience in designing digital products from concept to implementation.
• A design portfolio or case studies that demonstrates outstanding interaction design skills from architecture, flow mapping, to prototyping as well as a thorough understanding of graphic design, page layout and typography.
• Comfortable working in both low and high fidelity with a keen sense of what tool(s) to choose to clearly communicate ideas or solutions.
• Ability to articulate the process, approach, and impact of designs.
• Ability to plan and execute user research programs that inform product design and strategy.
• Experience designing within and contributing to a Design System.
• Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguous environments, including adapting to new challenges, scenarios, and working styles.
• Familiar with accessibility guidelines and best practices, including WCAG 2.1, and be able to design and test for accessibility throughout the design process.

Nice To Haves

• BA or BS in Design or HCI is preferred

Responsibilities

• Work directly with product management and engineering in an agile environment to solve complex design challenges.
• Support the team as needed with wireframes, flow diagrams, rapid prototypes and visual design to help communicate and validate design ideas.
• Facilitate user research, in collaboration with the team, to validate prototypes and conduct ongoing usability testing of the working software.
• Effectively communicate research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually.
• Manage the design process, drive decisions, track issues, and assist in estimating resource needs and schedules.
• Work closely with the engineering team to ensure the integrity of interaction and visual design specifications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that accessibility is integrated into all stages of the product development cycle.

Benefits

• Full health benefits (medical, dental, and vision), flexible spending accounts, company paid life insurance, company paid short-term & long-term disability, company equity, voluntary benefits, 401(k) and more!
• Manager development cohorts, employee development funds
• Company holidays, Winter & Summer break, and flexible time off
• We believe that everyone should belong at their workplace. Our ERGs are available for identifying employees or allies to join.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees