Contract SaaS Product UX Designer

Design intuitive user experiences and collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate requirements into effective designs. Advocate for the user and drive consistency in branding while leveraging data to inform design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design Intuitive User Experiences: Convey design ideas and end-to-end user experience via sketches, storyboards, hi-fidelity mockups, or prototypes.
• Partnership with product and engineers: Work closely with product management and engineering teams to translate product requirements and insights into compelling designs.
• Deeply understand clients and users: Work with clients to discuss and understand the goals of the platform; help clients visualize a general concept and framework.
• Design with modern practices: Design and iterate features that incorporate synchronous and asynchronous behavioral nudges.
• Drive Consistency and Branding: Maintain and evolve a design system that reflects our product's identity.
• Data-Informed Design: Collaborate with the Insights and Reporting Sub-team to leverage data and analytics in optimizing the user experience.
• Advocate for the User: Champion the voice of the user in all design discussions.
• Innovate for the Future of Work: Partner with the product team to explore new interaction models and design trends.

Requirements

• Two-five years of related experience required, preferably in a SaaS environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., UX Design, Computer Science) preferred but not required.
• Expertise with Modern Agile and SaaS Tools & Methodologies: Jira, Confluence, Scrum, CICD.
• Experience with design tools: Figma, Excalidraw, Material UI.
• Experience developing and designing software applications on web and mobile interfaces.
• Experience applying human centered design thinking, user-centered design processes, and lean product techniques.
• Ability to accept and incorporate feedback from colleagues, user feedback and usability testing findings.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Effectively produce multiple highly polished and professional finished works under tight timelines.
• Excellent synthesis skills.
• Visually creative with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with accessible design.
• Experience in conducting, executing and analyzing qualitative user research.
• A problem-solving mindset with a commitment to continual learning.

Key Skills

• Expertise with Modern Agile and SaaS Tools & Methodologies: Jira, Confluence, Scrum, CICD.
• Experience with design tools: Figma, Excalidraw, Material UI.
• Experience developing and designing software applications on web and mobile interfaces.
• Experience applying human centered design thinking, user-centered design processes, and lean product techniques.
• Ability to accept and incorporate feedback from colleagues, user feedback and usability testing findings.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Effectively produce multiple highly polished and professional finished works under tight timelines.
• Excellent synthesis skills.
• Visually creative with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with accessible design.
• Experience in conducting, executing and analyzing qualitative user research.
• A problem-solving mindset with a commitment to continual learning.