About the position
We are seeking a highly skilled Sr. Product Designer to join our User Experience team. The ideal candidate will possess a combination of technical expertise and creative talent, with a proven ability to create exceptional and user-friendly experiences. This role will involve utilizing product design experience, technical knowledge, research capabilities, and problem-solving skills to champion user experience pain points and translate them into innovative product features. The successful candidate will have a strong portfolio showcasing expertise in user research, wireframing, visual design, prototyping, and usability testing, as well as a demonstrated contribution to a company-wide UI component library.
Responsibilities
- Lead projects and teams across a product area
- Gather business objectives and project requirements from stakeholders
- Understand customers and complex products
- Develop low-fidelity wireframes to communicate design options and align on a solution
- Base designs on data gathered from user testing and usage metrics
- Communicate design decisions and respond to feedback from stakeholders
- Collaborate with UX Writers and Researchers to create high fidelity designs informed by customer feedback
- Collaborate with Engineers to create design specifications for implementation and ensure accurate implementation
- Work collaboratively to improve design styles
Requirements
- Proven experience in product design and user experience
- Strong technical knowledge and creative problem-solving skills
- Ability to champion user experience pain points and convert them into product features
- Proficiency in designing UI, validating designs, and providing specs to developers
- Strong portfolio showcasing UX design, including user research, sketches/wireframes, visual designs, prototypes, and usability testing
- Experience in utilizing common UI patterns and contributing towards a company-wide UI component library
- Ability to lead projects and teams across a product area
- Excellent communication skills to gather business objectives and project requirements from stakeholders
- Understanding of customers and complex products
- Ability to develop low-fidelity wireframes to communicate design options and align on a solution
- Ability to base designs on data gathered from user testing and usage metrics
- Collaboration skills to work with UX Writers, Researchers, and Engineers
- Ability to create high fidelity designs informed by customer feedback
- Proficiency in creating design specifications for implementation and ensuring accurate implementation
- Willingness to work collaboratively to improve design styles.
Benefits
- Lead projects and teams across a product area
- Gather business objectives and project requirements from stakeholders
- Develop low-fidelity wireframes to communicate design options and align on a solution
- Base designs on data gathered from user testing and usage metrics
- Communicate design decisions and respond to feedback from stakeholders
- Collaborate with UX Writers and Researchers to create high fidelity designs informed by customer feedback
- Collaborate with Engineers to create design specifications for implementation and ensure accurate implementation
- Work collaboratively to improve design styles and components for use across the entire product
- 5+ years experience designing for enterprise applications or customer-facing websites and mobile applications required
- Degree in User Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or a related field preferred
- Experience creating flow-charts, wireframes, high-fidelity design mockup, and detailed design specifications
- Experience with Figma, Sketch, Zeplin, Invision, Miro, or similar applications
- Thorough understanding of iOS and Android design guidelines
- Understanding of technology including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript capabilities
- Ability to effectively manage time, priorities, and deadlines with little supervision
- A design portfolio that demonstrates solid knowledge of web & mobile design principles. Portfolio needs to include mobile native apps designed using Human Interface Guidelines and/or Material Design Guidelines.