Senior Product Designer (12-month contract)

The Senior Product Designer will drive user-centered design initiatives from discovery to implementation, focusing on the MyAdmin platform. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance the customer management experience through research and design solutions.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for driving design initiatives in cross-functional teams, promoting cross-functional collaboration and ensuring the seamless integration of design solutions throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Take a proactive role in identifying opportunities to enhance design capabilities and effectiveness, initiating improvements in design methodologies, tools, and workflows to optimize efficiency and deliver exceptional user experiences.
• Lead efforts in building and maintaining a scalable component library, ensuring consistency across the product and regularly updating documentation to reflect design system changes.
• Conduct research, user testing, and analysis to gain deep insights into user behaviors, preferences, and pain points, guiding the development of user-centered design solutions.
• Take responsibility for knowledge sharing within the design team, mentoring and supporting junior designers to foster their professional growth and excellence.
• Advise manager on user-centric design principles and best practices, ensuring that design solutions align with user needs and industry standards.
• Gather requirements and align design efforts with business objectives, actively seeking opportunities to improve the overall product experience.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and design best practices, continuously evolving design skills and knowledge.
• Advise on design concepts and communicate ideas effectively to stakeholders, presenting design solutions and justifying design decisions based on user research and data.
• Work independently with developers and product managers to ensure the successful implementation of design solutions, providing guidance and support throughout the development process.

Requirements

• 5-8 years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong understanding of design systems, including the ability to create, maintain, and scale component libraries and documentation.
• Deep knowledge of product design, including common interaction patterns used and associated trade-offs, and best practices for responsive web applications.
• Experience collaborating closely with product management, engineering, and research.
• Proficiency in UI design and using tools like Figma, Sketch, InVision, Principle, etc.
• Practical experience in front-end development using React, HTML, and CSS, with the ability to prototype and collaborate closely with engineering teams.
• Ability to lead all aspects of the user-centered design process from conception to completion.
• Ability to develop high-level design strategy and vision.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal relationship building skills.
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• Strong team-player with the ability to engage with all levels of the organization.
• Technical competence using software programs, including but not limited to, Google Suite for business (Sheets, Docs, Slides).
• Entrepreneurial mindset and comfortable in a flat organization.

Key Skills

• Proficiency in UI design and using tools like Figma, Sketch, InVision, Principle, etc.
• Practical experience in front-end development using React, HTML, and CSS.
• Technical competence using software programs, including but not limited to, Google Suite for business (Sheets, Docs, Slides).

Benefits

• Flex working arrangements
• Home office reimbursement program
• Baby bonus & parental leave top up program
• Online learning and networking opportunities
• Electric vehicle purchase incentive program
• Competitive medical and dental benefits
• Retirement savings program