Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with product owners, engineers, and user research teams to create a vision for your product area.
- Serve as a bridge linking design, product, engineering, and marketing teams.
- Oversee multiple web and mobile application features, interfaces, and experiences.
- Communicate clear and compelling ideas to a wide range of key stakeholders using documentation, reviews, and presentations.
- Produce wireframes, storyboards, concepts, and other collateral to help communicate research results and make the case for new ideas.
- Create designs that adhere to and extend the existing style guide and design system.
- Generate detailed final design specs that inspire accurate developer builds.
- Work with developers and quality experts to deliver a polished final product.
- Promote and educate others on new interface guidelines and design patterns.
- Mentor new design staff.
- Develop software that is global in reach, universal in design, and designed for users of multiple languages and abilities.
- Advocate for accessibility through encouraging product and engineering management to prioritize accessible features and bug fixes.
- Support the vision for a product’s creative identity, articulates it clearly and convincingly, and guide the team through its implementation.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience designing and delivering software products from start to finish as part of a cross-functional team.
- Ability to deliver solutions on time independently and with on-site and distributed teams
- Deep understanding of user-centered design methods and best practices, and experience using analytics and research to drive decisions and develop product iterations.
- Ability to explore ideas, persuade, and build consensus on fast-moving projects with varying degrees of ambiguity and deadlines.
- Capability to deliver original, high-quality design work that is conceptually strong, meets business needs, and is at the right level of fidelity for each phase of a project.
- Strong communication and active listening skills, with an ability to build and develop close, trusting relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders across product and engineering.
- Familiar with managing large design initiatives, including managing competing priorities.
- Demonstrated desire to continually improve on processes.
- Can design and think in design systems, not just single-purpose apps.
- Can consider how a design impacts ethics and equality, and have the conviction to speak up if veering off course.
- Expert knowledge of current design tools, such as Figma, along with an ability to learn new tools.
- BA/BS or MA/MS in a design-related field, or equivalent experience.
Team
Structure: cross-disciplinary teams
Additional Information
- Please submit a résumé with links to your portfolio. Submissions without portfolios or work samples will not be considered.
