Product Designer

Design and execute features for the Common platform, ensuring a balance between aesthetic excellence and functional clarity. Collaborate with community stakeholders and engineers to maintain design fidelity and accessibility across all experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute features for the Common platform, from concept to pixel-perfect implementation.
• Create compelling visual designs that balance aesthetic excellence with functional clarity.
• Contribute to and help maintain a comprehensive design system that scales across our ecosystem.
• Conduct co-design sessions with community stakeholders, ensuring their voices shape our platform.
• Execute user research initiatives, including interviews, usability testing, and synthesis of findings.
• Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure design fidelity in implementation.
• Design for accessibility, ensuring WCAG 2.1 AA compliance across all experiences.
• Prototype interactions and micro-animations that bring delight to the user experience.
• Document design decisions and create guidelines for consistent implementation.
• Create brand and marketing materials that communicate our mission and values.
• Design organizational collateral, including identity systems, research reports, website updates, etc.

Requirements

• 6+ years of product design experience with a portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft and brand design capability.
• Excellence in typography, color theory, layout, and visual hierarchy.
• Deep expertise in modern design tools and prototyping.
• Strong background in creating and maintaining scalable design systems.
• End-to-end product design experience with complex software applications from concept to launch.
• Experience with co-design methodologies and participatory design processes.
• Experience conducting user research and translating insights into design decisions.
• Ability to handle generalist design requests while maintaining focus on core product work.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate design decisions to diverse stakeholders.
• Comfort working in ambiguous environments with evolving requirements.

Key Skills

• Visual craft
• Brand design
• Typography
• Color theory
• Layout
• Visual hierarchy
• Modern design tools and prototyping
• Scalable design systems
• End-to-end product design
• Co-design methodologies
• User research
• Accessibility-first design
• Collaboration in technical environments
• Financial or transactional interfaces
• Distributed, global communities