Sr Product Designer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Drive and own key features within our product experiences, helping to craft the vision for our product by identifying new opportunities and prioritizing enhancements.
• Work with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, experience researchers, content designers, fellow designers) to drive design executions for internal tools that meet the needs of our internal and external customers.
• Apply strategic thinking to visualize ideas and concepts and communicate them effectively and compellingly for internal stakeholders, partners, and customers.
• Build positive, collaborative relationships with product management, development, marketing, and the broader UX team, and continuously raise the bar as an effective team member.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration efforts like workshops & design sprints to generate and evaluate creative solutions.
• Leverage cross-functional leadership skills to guide, improve, and implement design and feedback processes.
• Mentor junior designers and participate actively in critique, design reviews, and planning.
• Create detailed user flows, wireframes, and communicate UX clearly to relevant teams, including the rationale for decisions.
• Maintain UX documentation on design elements, patterns, layouts, and user flows, including usage guidelines and best practices.
• Address and design for the entire user experience, including edge-cases and unhappy paths.
• Track the impact of your work via user feedback and data insights to identify opportunities for continued iteration.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role.
• A track record of designing high-quality digital products that delivered results and demonstrate deep design skills, illustrated in a portfolio or case studies.
• Expert knowledge of the end-to-end product design process, including product strategy, journey mapping, information architecture, interaction design, and user interface design.
• Demonstrated communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to clearly communicate complex concepts across different audiences and levels of the organization.
• Proven ability to evaluate the customer and business impact of design decisions inside and outside your product area.
• Deep experience with user-centered design processes working with cross-functional teams including development, product management, and research.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills to help teams and stakeholders understand the “why” behind design rationale.
• Understanding of front-end code, technology limitations, and the needs of engineers.
• Curiosity and interest in staying updated with latest techniques and updates.
• Proactive self-starter, systems thinker, comfortable with ambiguity, leveraging design thinking techniques.
• Proficient in Figma and other design and prototyping tools.

Nice to Have

• Experience working with cross-functional teams including development, product management, and research.
• Knowledge of front-end code and technology limitations.
• Experience leading workshops and design sprints.

Qualifications

• Educational background is not explicitly specified but requires extensive experience in UX design roles.

Benefits & Perks

• Full-time employment with salary range of $130,000 to $150,000, depending on location.
• Bonus and additional benefits as detailed at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/.