Senior Digital Product Designer

Collaborate with multi-functional teams to understand requirements and user needs while creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for web and mobile applications. Participate in user research activities to gather insights and refine design solutions, ensuring alignment with the Freddie Mac Design System.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with multi-functional teams, including product owners, developers, and stakeholders to understand requirements and user needs
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for web and mobile applications that align with modern industry standards
• Participate in user research activities, such as usability testing, interviews, and surveys, to gather insights and refine design solutions
• Contribute and ensure designs are in line with Freddie Mac Design System and industry standard methodologies
• Stay up to date with the latest UX design trends, tools, and techniques
• Present design concepts and solutions to partners and capture feedback for iterative improvement
• Own a solution from start to finish – from managing partners, to gaining alignment, to supporting product teams
• Work with fellow design leaders to ensure consistency in patterns and experience needs that span the entire suite of tools and touch all user groups
• Partner with product, business, and development leaders to streamline design delivery and enable designers to do their best work to support the implementation of platform-wide design initiatives
• Collaborate with fellow design leads to refine UX process and methodology and continuously iterate on our operating model so that we can be the best partners we can be to our product and development counterparts
• Drive culture change and model an attitude of user centered design, always striving for solution de-risking, value proposition validation, and evidence-based decision making

Requirements

• Preferred 8-10 years of relevant professional experience
• 5+ years of design or product strategy, visual or interaction design, and experience design
• Bachelor's degree in UX Design, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Product Design, or equivalent work experience
• Understand the application and implementation of the Design Thinking methodology
• Experience in usability testing, ensuring customer feedback is incorporated into future design increments
• Experience in ethnographic research is a plus
• Proficient in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or equivalent (Figma experience preferred)
• Experience working within Agile product teams
• Portfolio showcasing relevant academic or personal projects

Key Skills

• User-centered design
• Collaboration with multi-functional teams
• Wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs
• User research activities
• Freddie Mac Design System
• Industry standard methodologies
• UX design trends
• Tools and techniques
• Design concepts and solutions
• Iterative improvement
• Solution ownership
• Design consistency
• Streamlining design delivery
• UX process and methodology refinement
• Culture change
• User centered design
• Solution de-risking
• Value proposition validation
• Evidence-based decision making