Lead Product Designer (Remote)

Location: Remote – PST

Duration: 5 month contract

Pay: $64.75/hr

Who we’re looking for

You’re known for your well-honed design skills and talent for leading teams through design projects. You’re the glue between design, engineering and product. You own a project from start to finish — solving design challenges while inspiring others through your work and collaboration. You’re also growing your leadership skills by being a mentor to other designers.

Who you’ll work with

The Consumer & Enterprise Tools Team is driving the transformation of our clients product creation capabilities that fuel our clients consumer-led product pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Thinking big, innovating and driving design execution across a complex product domain, taking ownership of large, ambiguous initiatives
• Designing incredibly polished work that represents the brand and product experience through wireframes, visual comps, flows and prototypes
• Inspiring new ways of thinking and exploring the unknown using fresh approaches to design problems while applying your knowledge of standard methodologies and user-centered design principles to build simple, beautiful and seamless workflows
• Developing design solutions using participatory and iterative techniques including user interviews, observation, usability testing, validation, and design thinking brainstorms and workshops
• Rapidly iterating and refining design concepts — from initial briefing through final delivery
• Mentoring and providing helpful feedback to fellow designers and interns to uplevel their craft and skills
• Evangelizing the brand and driving initiatives that strengthen our clients design culture internally

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience with end-to-end digital product design with proven experience in visual design and UX
• A bachelor’s degree or any combination of education, training and experience in design, UX/UI design, human-computer interaction or a related field
• Strong understanding of product thinking, interaction design, data science, experimentation and execution (expert in one or more areas)
• Hands-on creative and systems thinker with strong UX/UI/IA design expertise
• Demonstrated user-centric design approach and insights-based design process
• Proven collaborator with product managers, engineers, writers, researchers and marketers
• Strong design process; ability to contribute new processes or enhancements to cross-functional teams
• Experience working with consumer research and data
• Impeccable attention to detail
• Exceptional time management skills — providing accurate estimations and often helping the team deliver early
• Ability to influence or create design patterns or standards that are adopted by other teams
• Highly proficient with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Adobe CC, Principle and Keynote
• Cross-platform design experience (enterprise platforms, web, Android, iOS, email, etc.), and ability to approach problems from the consumer perspective—internal or external
• Ability to communicate a vision for the work in a way others can relate to and buy into
• Ability to establish a holistic look and feel between all pieces of a large project
• Experience launching software at scale in a fast-paced product organization