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Senior Product Designer - TrainingPeaks
Peaksware • Louisville, United States of America 🇺🇸
As a Senior Product Designer, you will design intuitive and elegant solutions for TrainingPeaks Virtual and its related platforms. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to validate design solutions through research and testing.
Responsibilities
- Guiding several diverse design approaches and validating solutions with prototypes, internal and external usability testing, and quantitative/qualitative customer research
- Driving collaboration with Product Managers to define user problems and produce designs during all stages of the product life cycle
- Facilitating collaboration for conceptual ideas, design rationale, and the specifics of the user-centered design process
- Partner with Product Managers and Engineers to make product and design decisions inducted by research findings, market trends, business goals, and product design sense
- Transforming divergent low-fidelity wireframe concepts, rapidly progressing into high-fidelity UI prototypes including design interactions, platform conventions, best practices and design rationale while narrowing down scope to validated solutions
- Leading design reviews, communicating interaction design concepts to help define development requirements for the best product experiences
- Pushing the bounds of visual language and experience elements, grounded in visual design principles
- Assisting engineers in shipping high-quality experiences with detailed design specs, design reviews and regular communication
- Mentoring within the broader design team to share feedback, maintain our design system and elevate overall product quality and design efficacy
- Initiate user research initiatives, using quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate the usability of design solutions and reduce our assumptions
Requirements
- Minimum of 7 years experience conducting UX/UI research and design
- Well-rounded experience with game UX/UI design and human/lifestyle centered design with gaming interactions
- Facilitation of human-centered design principles and data-driven design strategies for mobile, desktop, and web gaming platforms
- Familiarity and usages of usability testing and customer research methodologies
- Organizing and leading design reviews and workshops with cross-functional team members
- Expertise with product design fundamentals such as visual design principles, platform human interface guidelines, prototypes, mockups, pattern libraries and the use of industry standard tools
- Proven experience in developing design systems and style guides
- Superior knowledge and execution of best practices and platform specific design/UI patterns for mobile, desktop, and web app platforms
- Strategizing with a Product Manager to set the expectations for research and design priorities to guide the team’s backlog priority, working collaboratively and independently
- Effective design execution within an agile product development team
- Design portfolio that reflects your ability to solve mobile, desktop, and web design challenges using UX experience strategies, UI affordances, and visual design sensibilities
Key Skills
- Simplifying complex cross-platform information architecture, interactions, and gaming mechanics for engaging experiences
- Expertise in visual experience design with demonstrative examples of design principles (layout, typography, color theory, composition) and motion design concepts
- Established designs supporting SaaS products and product led growth in consumer and business based markets
- Passion for sports performance fitness tech
- High level of contribution to the growth of the Product Design Team by providing guidance and mentorship
- Expert proficiency in industry standard user research and analysis tools such as Maze, UserZoom GO, and SurveyMonkey
- Superior working knowledge with Unity and/or Unreal Engine 5
- Passion for augmented experiences with performance fitness technologies and trainers
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings and flexible spending accounts, paid parental leave; and an employee assistance program
- Several company paid options including Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, as well as Basic Life Insurance and AD&D
- A 401(K) including a company match
- 12 paid holidays annually and provide discretionary Flexible Time Off
- Free access to our products, corporate discounts, and professional development resources
- Access to the Performance and Recovery Center (PARC), our on-site fitness facility, as well as employee only access to on-site locker rooms and showers
- Employee only access to secure, indoor bike storage and access to e-bikes exclusively to Peaksware employees
- Access to our onsite Music and Podcast Studio
About Peaksware
We are musicians, athletes, coaches and teachers who truly believe in our mission to help people achieve their best. Our software platforms connect performers, instructors and creators enabling them to publish, teach and train using the principles of deliberate practice. You may know us as TrainingPeaks, MakeMusic, TrainHeroic and Alfred Music. TrainingPeaks develops software for coaches and athletes to track, analyze and plan endurance training. TrainHeroic develops software solutions for the strength and conditioning needs of coaches and athletes. MakeMusic develops software to transform how music is composed, taught, learned and performed. Alfred Music creates and publishes educational music to help teachers, students, professionals and hobbyists experience the joy of making music. Peaksware has been featured in BuiltInColorado’s Top 100 Companies list since 2017 and our brands have been recognized in Outside Magazine’s “Best Places to Work” multiple years in a row. Peaksware has
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