Staff Product Designer

The Staff Product Designer will develop deep domain knowledge of the product area and collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex problems. They will design user experiences through research, ideation, and continuous feedback, while also mentoring junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Develop deep domain knowledge of your squad's product area and team up with your manager to solve the toughest problems.
• Design for you isn’t just pretty interfaces - you’ll spend a lot more time understanding the problem space through generative research, synthesizing insights, running ideation sessions/workshops to design a delightful customer experience.
• Minimize assumptions in your design process.
• Work with the PM to define your focus areas and contribute to the overall direction of your product area while measuring ongoing improvement.
• Get continuous feedback from the users through different stages of the problem solving process.
• Create simple, elegant solutions to complex interaction problems with high attention to details.
• Help facilitate cross-functional, collaborative workshops focused on achieving desired outcomes, such as generating ideas, soliciting feedback, or building consensus.
• Use and evolve our design system to design flows, prototypes, sketches, and high-fidelity visuals for your features.
• Think in terms of scalable systems, not just one-off solutions.
• Use a variety of metrics to evaluate and continuously improve the user experience.
• Continuously improve design processes, knowledge, and tools to measurably enhance productivity and product quality.
• Proactively drive cooperation within the design chapter & contribute to fostering collaboration with other departments.
• Regularly present your work to peers, stakeholders and leaders for review and feedback.
• Contribute to creative, supportive culture and mentor junior team members.

Requirements

• Preferably a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts/Design/Marketing/Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Multimedia graphics.
• Minimum 5-6 years of full time UX & UI design experience in an agile consumer-focused, high-performance organization.
• An effective problem solver with experience in partnering with Product Managers to develop the strategy and rationale for features.
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience in interacting with users.
• Experience in organizing workshops/sessions with different stakeholders.
• Advanced knowledge of design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, Invision, Zeplin, etc.
• An outstanding portfolio, showcasing your thought process and an advanced understanding of user experience.
• A track record of shipping top-notch design, and an understanding of what details matter at each stage of the release cycle.
• Knowledge of validating hypotheses through qualitative and quantitative data.
• Deep thinker and natural communicator who clearly articulates design decisions and tells compelling stories that inspire action.
• Ability to manage multiple work streams in an agile, fast-paced, changing environment.
• Humble, curious and open-minded with a growth mindset who thrives on continuous feedback and learning.

Key Skills

• UX & UI design
• Agile environment
• User interaction
• Workshop organization
• Design and prototyping tools
• Portfolio showcasing
• User experience
• Feature strategy
• Hypothesis validation
• Design communication
• Work management
• Growth mindset