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— Saul Bass
Staff Product Designer - Portfolio Lead
Rise8 • Colorado Springs, United States of America 🇺🇸
The Staff Product Designer will lead design efforts across multiple teams, focusing on transforming client design cultures and ensuring project success. This role involves both product leadership and mentoring other designers to enhance their practices.
Responsibilities
- Transform clients unfamiliar with design-thinking and user research into agile and empathetic problem-solvers
- Hands-on work and mentorship around User Centered Design principles
- Establish feedback loops through research and prototyping
- Contribute to greater design consistency across products
- Scale an organization’s research operations
- Evaluate the user experience across an ecosystem of processes
- Define project intake and portfolio strategy
- Coach and mentor other designers
- Create onboarding programs
- Cultivate a learning environment where designers grow and thrive
Requirements
- 10+ years experience in product design, UX, or related field
- Experience managing a team
- Experience working with clients or stakeholders in a consulting role
- Experience coaching & mentoring others in lean, agile and user-centric design practices
- Deep experience in User Research and Service Design
- Strong facilitation skills
- Experience leading product design from research through implementation
- Experience designing different applications for different use cases
- Experience using modern design systems and frameworks
- Active leader in a design community
- Ability to work on-site a few days a week in Colorado Springs, CO
- Ability to travel occasionally for Rise8 company events
- Currently holds a TS security clearance
Key Skills
- User Research
- Service Design
- Facilitation skills
- Leading product design from research through implementation
- Designing different applications for different use cases
- Modern design systems and frameworks
- Active leader in a design community
- Coaching and mentoring
- Creating onboarding programs
- Cultivating a learning environment
Benefits
- Flexible schedule in a 100% distributed workforce
- Premium Insurance: up to 100% of the employee premium and up to 80% of the combined dependent premium on our base health plan, 100% of the premium for employee and dependent Dental and Vision, and employee premiums for Life and Disability coverage
- Retirement: 401k match at 10% gross pay
- Paid time off (PTO): 4 weeks combined accrued vacation and sick leave, 10 Federal holidays, birthday, jury duty, and bereavement
- Education & Training: accrued budget of up to $3,500 per year for classes, travel, events, and materials
- Home Office and Merch: $750 per year for home office technology and equipment, $100 per year for Rise8 merch
- Wellness Budget: 100% reimbursement on a variety of wellness activities and products, up to $500 per calendar year, or $75 monthly credit towards a Life Time membership
- Equipment: MacBook Pro
About Rise8
Rise8 exists to create a future where fewer bad things happen because of bad software by enabling large enterprises to continuously deliver valuable software users love. We think big, start small, and scale fast with incredible engineering, a product mindset, and human-centered design to develop custom software for critical missions. Rise8 is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) with headquarters in Tampa, FL, and a fully remote workforce.
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