Lead Product Designer

Beam Benefits is seeking a Lead Product Designer to drive the creation of design infrastructure and enhance customer experiences across their user interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Design impactful, research-informed, and goal-oriented digital experiences that balance user needs with business objectives and drive measurable outcomes
• Champion and apply design thinking principles to frame problems, generate insights, and guide teams toward innovative, user-driven outcomes
• Collaborate cross-functionally with designers, product owners, engineers, marketers, and business leaders to find innovative, elegant, and practical solutions to complex design challenges
• Facilitate design sessions, reviews, and ideation meetings to build alignment with cross-functional partners and foster shared learning
• Communicate design vision and rationale effectively to advocate for design excellence across the organization
• Conduct user research, analyze insights, and translate findings into actionable design decisions that address user needs
• Lead the design of end-to-end service experiences, mapping user journeys and touch points to create cohesive, efficient, and human-centered solutions
• Evaluate and integrate new methodologies into the design process to improve speed, quality, and impact
• Flex your UX writing skills—helping write clear, concise, and empathetic copy within your work
• Mentor and guide fellow designers, fostering a growth culture and helping them to elevate their craft and expertise

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant work experience and a portfolio with case studies
• Proven track-record of solving complex problems and creating holistic user experiences
• Experience developing user flows, wireframes, and functional prototypes
• Experience crafting refined visual design solutions with high proficiency in Figma and with a high attention to detail
• Experience contributing to the development and maintenance of a scalable design system
• Skilled at collaborating with engineering teams and providing detailed UI specifications, interaction design (IxD), and annotations
• Experience designing mobile applications and mobile experience using mobile-first principles and responsive design best practices, with a high fluency in iOS and Android interaction patterns
• Strong presentations skills and ability to articulate design decisions and reasoning to a wide range of audiences
• Stakeholder management skills and crafting streamlined feedback loops that foster productive collaboration to make you and your experiences better
• Experience designing with WCAG Accessibility guidelines
• Experience using analytical tools (like Looker) and solid understanding of front-end languages (html/css)
• Proficiency in modern design and prototyping tools, with an openness to adopting emerging technologies that enhance workflow efficiency

Key Skills

• High proficiency in Figma
• High attention to detail
• Experience with design systems
• UI specifications and interaction design (IxD)
• Annotations
• Mobile-first design principles
• Responsive design best practices
• iOS and Android interaction patterns
• Strong presentation skills
• Stakeholder management
• WCAG Accessibility guidelines
• Analytical tools like Looker
• Front-end languages (html/css)
• Modern design and prototyping tools

Benefits

• Competitive base salary paired with an attractive variable compensation structure
• Performance-based bonuses and incentives
• Comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with company matching
• Flexible time off
• Opportunity to participate in the equity program