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Senior Product Designer
Virtual Peaker • Louisville, United States of America 🇺🇸
As a Senior Product Designer, you will work with product management and engineering to shape product evolution and create interactive user experiences. You will lead design efforts, conduct user research, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product alignment with customer needs.
Responsibilities
- Work closely and rapidly with Product Management to help identify needs, rapidly build prototypes, test and iterate, to design best solutions
- Work closely with product management team to translate research insights into UX and UI solutions that meet customer and business needs
- Facilitate and participate in customer and end-user research/synthesis
- Lead usability test and validation sessions with end-users and focus groups
- Work closely with Marketing and brand teams to define consistent iconography, brand and design language across products and marketing material
- Use appropriate skills (sketching, prototyping and specification) to define and communicate interaction concepts
- Design and create information architecture, application flows and application screen wireframes
- Rapid paper prototype generation to demonstrate user and application flows
- Define, design and apply interface and interaction principles and frameworks
- Generate UI concepts through rapid sketches and lead group brainstorms and design reviews
- Generate low and high fidelity visual prototypes to demonstrate UI solution concepts
- Participate in product feature and capability ideation and definition process with Product & Technology Management
- Present design work to cross-functional teams and leadership for review and feedback
- Stay up to date with industry changes and competitive landscape
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Arts, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Media Arts or similar field
- Past user experience and visual design work for both desktop and touch interface devices
- 7+ years work experience crafting user interface design in web, mobile-web, iOS and Android apps
- Ability to communicate design concept ideas through sketches, wireframes and paper prototypes
- Highly fluent in Figma, Adobe creative Suite, Miro and other design popular creative tools
- Ability to prototype in Figma or other prototyping tools
- Experience in designing for responsive web applications
Key Skills
- User experience and visual design
- Sketching
- Wireframing
- Paper prototyping
- Information architecture
- Application flows
- Application screen wireframes
- Usability testing
- Interaction concepts
- UI concepts
- Design reviews
- Visual prototypes
- Product feature ideation
- Design presentation
- Industry updates
Benefits
- Full benefits medical, dental, vision, 401k
- Generous vacation time, sick leave, and holidays
- Diverse and inclusive community for everyone
- Stock options
- Generous 401k
- Remote-first stipend
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
About Virtual Peaker
Virtual Peaker is a cloud-based distributed energy company that empowers modern utilities to build the future grid and meet global decarbonization goals. The SaaS company’s platform suites unify all aspects of DER management, from DERMS to customer engagement and load forecasting. Virtual Peaker is a remote-first company that employs more than 50 people in various locations across the United States. For more information, visit www.virtual-peaker.com and follow the company on LinkedIn and Twitter (@VirtualPeaker).
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