Role Overview:
You’ll be responsible for research and design through a product’s discovery phase to validation. We are seeking a highly creative and experienced Product Designer to join our dynamic cross-functional team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for designing intuitive and engaging user experience for digital products and services.
Key Responsibilities:
User Research & Analysis:
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative user research to understand user needs, behaviors, and pain points.
- Analyze user feedback and usage data to inform design decisions.
Design Development:
- Create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that illustrate design concepts.
- Develop design systems and guidelines to ensure consistency across products.
Collaboration:
- Work closely with product owners, engineers, and other stakeholders to define and implement innovative solutions from product discovery through MVP to scale.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure designs are feasible and align with technical constraints.
- Engage with senior leadership, showcasing UX work and evidencing the contributions your research and design work have made to the team’s broader strategic initiatives.
Testing & Iteration:
- Conduct Usability Testing and gather feedback to refine and improve designs.
- Iterate on designs based on user feedback and analytics to enhance the user experience.
Innovation & Trends:
- Stay updated with the latest design trends, tools, and technologies.
- Advocate for and implement best practices in user-centered design and Lean UX.
Experience:
- Minimum of 6 years of commercial experience in product design preferably in a large, global enterprise.
- Proven experience in research and designing products from POC to MVP for multi-region deployment and rollout.
- Practical knowledge of iterative design methods and processes that follow a Lean UX approach.
- Comfortable leading UX workstreams in large global teams across multiple time zones, collaborating with a diverse set of stakeholders.
- Proficient in operating across all stages of the design lifecycle from product discovery to delivery.
- Practical knowledge of working within product software development team with a deep understanding of agile, scrum and design thinking.
Skills:
- Expertise in mixed methods across generative and evaluative research, including surveys, interviews and usability testing using tools such as Qualtrics, Dovetail, Maze and UserTesting.com.
- Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, Figma and Adobe Suite.
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies.
- Excellent visual design UI skills with keen eye for detail and aesthetics.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Expertise in user journey mapping, needs and sentiment analysis.
- Familiarity with front-end development principles (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is a plus.
- Deep expertise in design systems and atomic design principles, working with UX patterns and component-based libraries.
- Comprehensive understanding of usability and accessibility standards across web, mobile and responsive platforms.
Personal Attributes:
- Innovative thinker with a passion for solving complex problems.
- Self-motivated with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively in a global, hybrid working environment.
- Outcome-driven and focused on solving user and business problems.
- Evangelist for UX practices with an empathetic nature to champion the voice of the customer.
- Pragmatic and adaptive thinker who can adjust design processes and approaches to project demands and deadlines.
- Ability to navigate high levels of ambiguity.
- Hands-on practitioner able to think conceptually and work practically.
- Compelling visual storyteller and communicator.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Product Design, Interaction Design or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.