Staff Product Designer

Aiwyn

1d•Remote

About The Position

Staff Product Designers at Aiwyn manage ambiguous projects autonomously and act as force multipliers across a business line. They excel at concept design, system design, and interaction design with high efficiency, balancing effort versus reward. This role contributes to product strategy, drives product vision in collaboration with product leads, and coaches/guides designers to help them grow and deliver impactful, high-quality work. Staff designers may lead design within a product team when needed and lead design initiatives that span multiple product teams within their business line to solve complex challenges.

Requirements

Complex system design and architecture
Interaction design at the highest level of polish
Strategic thinking and product vision
Cross-functional leadership and influence
First-principles thinking and innovation
Design mentorship and coaching
Storytelling and executive communication
Autonomous project management in ambiguous situations
Design system evolution and standards
Product strategy and commercial thinking
Product team and design guild health
Design operations and process improvements
Cross-team coordination and alignment

Responsibilities

Deeply understand Aiwyn’s products and competition across multiple product areas
Identify gaps and opportunities in customer understanding that drive real business impact; understand the dual audience of accounting firm professionals and their end clients; navigate the balance between modern UX patterns and familiar legacy software paradigms
Grow your influence on the future vision for your product area; actively plan for how your designs will help us surpass our competitors; contributor to product strategy and driver for the product vision
Take ownership of your team’s work reaching business outcomes for the business line; partner with your Product Marketing Manager to translate design strategy into customer-facing value propositions and contribute to competitive positioning through design differentiation
Identify new problems and opportunities to solve across product teams within your business line; lead design initiatives that span multiple product teams; coordinate design resources and priorities across teams; identify shared design patterns and system opportunities
Lead quantitative and qualitative research across your product area
Solve complex system design challenges; design connected, modular systems that help us move faster in the future
Diverge and converge quickly and effectively; practice first-principles thinking for larger projects or when innovation is a requirement
Design simple and elegant interfaces for complex systems; refine the details of interaction design to achieve a high level of polish; act as a steward for our design system by driving its evolution, setting standards for quality and consistency, and ensuring its strategic alignment with product needs
Design interfaces that are functional, beautiful, and delightful; raise the visual design bar in a way that creates business value
Pair with an engineer to find design solutions through functional prototypes
Identify and resolve design operations bottlenecks; improve the way your business line ships product through process improvements, better handoffs, and strategic tooling
Role model our principles and values within your product team; identify opportunities to refine our principles and values
Consistently seek out opportunities to improve your product team; know and manage your triggers for fixed mindset; actively seek out and apply lessons and inspiration from the success of others; proactively motivate colleagues by sharing insightful and relevant feedback
Co-own the health of your product team; define hiring needs and role requirements in partnership with VP of Product Design; share your ideas with the industry by writing or talking publicly; support Aiwyn events; actively lead Design Guild initiatives and process improvements; mentor and guide designers through guild activities and design reviews
Use storytelling to communicate your work in an engaging way; anticipate feedback to address it proactively; communicate effectively with x-team leadership and cross-functional partners to influence their thinking and decisions; actively help your trio and product team align
Be decisive to make progress, not just take action; drive resolving dependencies with others; maximize opportunities—when needed, go beyond the project and the role; raise problems when you see them
Own your product team’s work, consistently seeking to provide more value; work beyond design, within and across product teams, peers, and partners to ensure your product team delivers high-quality, impactful results; identify and anticipate risks, proactively develop solutions