Staff Product Designer (Remote)

Black Airplane is a digital product agency dedicated to solving complex business problems through innovative technology and design.

As a Staff Product Designer, you play a pivotal role in partnering directly with our clients to bring their vision to life. Utilizing your design expertise, you will push the creative bounds of technology by crafting tangible, UX-principled digital products.

This is a full-time, remote position (US only).

Responsibilities

• Partner with Black Airplane clients to design brilliant digital products and experiences.
• Collaborate with the sales team, providing design estimates and insights to shape project direction from start to finish.
• Serve as the lead designer for clients, fostering trust and translating their vision into actionable design plans.
• Independently lead the design journey from ideation and gathering requirements to high-fidelity visualizations, ensuring alignment with client goals.
• Create essential design artifacts like wireframes and prototypes to articulate and test design decisions. Deliver compelling presentations of design artifacts, justifying design decisions, and addressing feedback.
• Champion an iterative approach, integrating stakeholder feedback to refine end-user digital solutions.
• Collaborate with multiple client stakeholders, Product Owners, and Engineers to deliver best-in-class design solutions.
• Prioritize tasks and manage concurrent projects, ensuring timely delivery while upholding the highest quality.
• Work closely with developers to guarantee design fidelity during the implementation phase.
• Stay updated on design trends, bringing fresh insights to enhance our offerings.
• Offer mentorship to budding designers, nurturing their growth and skills.
• Engage with Design Leadership to refine Black Airplane’s design methodologies and vision.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or equivalent industry experience.
• Minimum of 6 years of professional experience as a product designer in an agency or digital product setting.
• 3+ Years of experience with Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD.
• You have impeccable presentation and client engagement skills.
• A rich portfolio illustrating a wide array of digital product design projects and your approach to problem-solving.
• You have top-notch communication skills, matching the tempo of stakeholder calls to ensure our clients feel known, heard, and respected while providing principled design recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience working on at least 2 shipped digital products (either web or mobile applications).
• Proficiency in breaking down and crafting solutions for intricate design challenges.
• Efficient time management skills, with a history of managing multiple projects simultaneously.

Black Airplane is a fully remote friendly environment. Work location is flexible if approved by Black Airplane, except that the position may not be performed remotely from AK, CA, HI, MA, NY, OR, PA, WA, or outside of the United States.