Product Designer
Job Description
Overview
Qualified candidates will have at least 5+ years’ of experience in Product Design/UX Design, 5+ years’ creating components with a design system, PDQA with development, advanced Figma expertise at a product-focused technology company.
The successful candidate will report to the Product Design Manager and be responsible as an individual contributor for the overall products and services. Problem solving is your superpower. You can discover the root problem before anyone else and know the end-user better than they do. You understand what customers say may not match what they do when interacting with a product. You can take human-centered design principles and translate them into development language. You provide coaching opportunities so that product and development teams can change their behavior to make better, more informed decisions about goals and requirements.
UX Initiatives You Will Impact
Job Responsibilities
- Create and produce Figma UI components that
consist of interactions, design tokens, variants, and UX patterns throughout
all stages of the design pro
- A strong attention to detail and a keen eye
for design aesthetics
- Be the UX sandwich. Provide close
collaboration with UX developers, product designers, and product management on
all UX initiatives
- Create and maintain our client’s design
system, including roadmap and backlog for product design
- Coach others to practice human-centered design
- Identify gaps in UX strategy and innovation to
drive change and meet unmet needs of customers
- Provide UX annotations or design specs for
development and product
- Conduct Product Design Quality Assurance (PDQA)/UX
review for development
- You will make decisions
in a process light environment, with a lean towards rolling up your
sleeves and getting a deep understanding of issues and be seen as someone
who is there to partner and lead from the front
Qualifications
- 5+
years of experience in product design/UX design
- 5+
years of design system experience
- Proficiency
with Figma required (advanced expertise)
- Experience
in working in an agile framework required. Must know how to manage design
system work in Jira
- Must
have work experience at a product-focused technology company
- Hands-on
experience and understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, SCSS,
JavaScript)
- Portfolio
of design system work is required
Work
Environment
- Remote; work from home role
- Monday-Friday work week and must work Eastern
US office hours
- Applicants must be currently authorized to
work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis
- Pay range is: $80.00-$90.00 per hour
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