Sr Product Designer

Michaels Stores • Irving, TX

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About The Position

The Sr Product Designer role is responsible for creating user-centered experiences to support Michael’s digital touchpoints for our makers and our store team members (including websites, apps, and in-store experiences/solutions like self-checkout and point of sale). Through an advanced understanding of user-centered design principles and digital best practices, this role will effectively communicate solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences. Communication tactics may include but are not limited to: wireframes, user flows, competitive benchmarking, and user research. This impactful role will work closely with cross-functional teams to advocate for the needs of the our end-users and the Design Team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Advanced experience in current design tools, i.e., Figma, Miro, Adobe Creative Suite) and experience in collaboration tools i.e. JIRA, Confluence
• 5+ years of design experience
• Digital portfolio demonstrating strong understanding of design, including advanced competency in project execution, design systems, and style guides
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Nice To Haves

• MFA (Fine Arts) or MSA (Design)
• Certification from Nielson-Norman Interactive Design International, or other accredited program
• 2 year experience working in Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience with collaboration tolls i.e., JIRA, Confluence
• Experience conducting user research using various methodologies
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and/or JavaScript

Responsibilities

• Design Creation Provide insight into trends, innovation and best practices in e-commerce and user experience design
• Propose user experience enhancements to existing systems
• Create innovative concepts and drive decision-making forward to make progress on delivery
• Manage user experience design, prototyping and proposing project definition activities, and design documentation
• Provide quality assurance with engineering and product prior to launch
• Create new design patterns that can be used across the UX team and be implemented all the way to a development library
• Contribute to Design Team Standards and Processes Leverage advanced knowledge of Design Team standards and processes
• Identify areas of opportunity to enhance standards and processes
• Collaboration and Leadership Lead and participate in design reviews by sharing work and mentoring others
• Present to Design leadership
• Support design team with various projects, presentations, and initiatives
• Provide mentorship to Designers
• Determine the creation of project timelines and plans, including level of effort
• Collaborate with, present to, and guide peers and partners
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, and vision)
• paid time off
• tuition assistance
• generous employee discounts

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees