Senior Product Designer

April is seeking a Senior Product Designer to join their Build team, focusing on creating a best-in-class, human-centric tax experience for their full suite of products.

Responsibilities

• Lead the entire design thinking process for significant parts of our multi-platform product suite (consumer, B2B2C, and internal business tools)
• Contribute to the growth of the product design function while building and communicating best practices across the organization
• Work directly with our Head of Product Design and Product, Engineering, and Tax Analyst leads to prioritize initiatives to ensure we are solving the right problems
• Ensure flawless, pixel perfect execution across all areas of the design process while keeping an eye on the bigger picture
• Regularly conduct research to ensure we are continuously improving the product experience by gathering qualitative and quantitative insights via user research
• Measure and contribute to business level objectives and key results by ensuring every piece of work you touch is adding value for both the user and the business
• Partner with the marketing team to ensure our solutions align with our users’ voice and the april brand

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience designing and building digital products
• Knowledge and passion for interaction and visual design
• Must have a high bar for design quality and be an advocate for clean, elegant, and usable design
• Exceptional organization and planning skills
• Experience applying research, usability tests, and metrics to inform design decisions
• Comfort with an iterative design process that includes accepting and acting on feedback
• Ability to inspire and drive end-to-end product and feature improvements
• Ability to think at a high level about business objectives
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to maintain flexibility in an evolving work environment
• Self-learning individual with an entrepreneurial spirit, conceptual thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills
• Effective communication skills and the ability to confidently communicate design thinking methodologies and design direction with senior stakeholders, including founders
• Must be proficient in Figma

Key Skills

• Proficiency in Figma