Sr Product Designer

The Senior Product Designer creates innovative, user-friendly mobile apps, web platforms, and software that meet user and business needs. This role collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless experiences and enhanced functionality.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with technical product owners, analysts, business stakeholders, and customers to understand product requirements and user needs.
• Solves complex design challenges with creative and effective solutions, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• Leads product design direction and creates intuitive, user-friendly interfaces for mobile apps, web platforms, and software applications.
• Produces wireframes, prototypes, deliverables, and high-fidelity designs using Figma.
• Utilizes user-centered research methods and conducts usability testing to validate designs.
• Communicates design rationale and transforms research findings into actionable insights and design strategies.
• Continuously iterates on product designs based on feedback from users, stakeholders, research, and testing.
• Performs occasional UX audits, upholds usability principles, and makes recommendations for consistent user experiences across the platform.
• Works with development and QA teams to ensure seamless implementation of designs and provides design feedback during sprint cycles.
• Partners with developers on the creation and maintenance of libraries, style guides, design systems, and reusable design components for use across all technologies.
• Ensures designs are consistent with brand guidelines and product vision.
• Stays up to date with the latest design trends, tools, and technologies in the IT and software development industries.
• Performs off-hours support as needed.
• Promotes and maintains the identity and reputation of the company, ensuring customer satisfaction and addressing problems and complaints as they arise.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor or other designate.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Product Design, Graphic Design, HCI, Computer Science, or a related field or equivalent work experience, required.
• Three plus years proven experience as a Product Designer, UX/UI Designer, or similar role in IT product design

Key Skills

• Professional portfolio demonstrating UX craft and design skills across digital products (mobile apps, web platforms, and software applications).
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on user-centered design principles.
• Experience in Information Architecture (IA), Usability, Interaction Design (IxD), Visual Design, and Facilitation.
• Expertise in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or equivalent.
• Proficiency in user-centered design processes and techniques, including research, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to tell compelling stories about users, present projects to peers across disciplines, and defend design decisions to key stakeholders.
• A keen interest in technology, an awareness of front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), and an understanding of how design translates to code.
• Knowledge of core interaction patterns and digital interface best practices, including accessibility guidelines and inclusive design principles.

Benefits

• Health, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity
• FSA & HSA
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Disability Benefits
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Volunteer Time
• Personal Leave time and more!
• Bonuses to their employee-owners upon the achievement of branch and company goals.