Senior Product Designer
About The Position
The Senior Product Designer performs user research, creates mockups and prototypes, validates solutions with customers, pairs user research with quantitative data to drive design solutions, creates detailed specifications and guidelines for handoff to developers, and works as a member of a cross-functional team to deliver concepts through to production, ensuring their success. The Product Design team is key in translating strategic objectives into actionable plans and designs for developers to execute on. The Senior Product Designer is instrumental in guiding product solutions and advocating for a design-driven culture.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a product designer or UX/UI designer at a Saas company or product design firm
- Bachelor’s degree in design or related field
- Experience conducting or leading research initiatives
- Training in User Experience, User Interface, and Interaction Design
- Strong Visual UI design skills
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience within the eCommerce or Shipping software industry
Responsibilities
- Design features and improvements to ShipStation Global products; with a focus on ShipStation, Stamps.com, ShipStation API.
- Oversee a feature or project's creative process from start to finish
- Design mockups and prototypes to validate ideas with stakeholders and customers
- Research and test the impact of a new feature or product update using metrics and analytics
- Work closely alongside developers to ensure implementation is consistent with mockups
- Ensure the continued success of designs through production by tracking the design KPIs
- Generate design documentation that supports the maintenance of the product and serves as a guide to understanding it.
- Translate ideas and concepts into user and product documentation: task flow diagrams, and functional design specifications.
- Present concepts to the company during new hire onboarding as well as during company meetings.
- Evangelize design and design-thinking across the company, to build a culture of problem-solving and raise the bar of product excellence.
- Work with Product Managers to understand and dissect challenges, and execute company strategy
- Work with stakeholders to translate strategy into product improvements that benefit from design thinking
- Mentor junior designers by providing thoughtful and constructive feedback during design reviews
- Conduct customer research to validate ideas and locate new problems to solve.
- Contact users and conduct interviews to gain insight into ShipStation Global products (ShipStation, Stamps, ShipStation API) use, and apply user knowledge to inform your designs
- Interact with customers regularly via support center, phone calls, and contextual inquiries to internalize their points of view and pain points
- Review user interactions using analytics and reporting tools to see how users are interacting with the product
Benefits
- Flex Time Off policy
- 12 paid holidays
- 401k employer matching program
- Annual merit reviews
- Company events
- Attractive office space in the heart of central Austin, Texas (free drinks, snacks…)
- Weekly catered lunches
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Fitness center in the office with Tonal Mirrors, Pelotons, free weights, etc.
- Employee Assistance Program (up to 8 free mental health sessions)
- Gym discounts
- Education reimbursement
- Employee Referral Program
- Inclusive, casual and upbeat work environment
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
