Senior Product Designer

The Senior Product Designer will facilitate the end-to-end design of products and services, ensuring alignment across business and technology functions. They will engage with stakeholders to identify design needs and opportunities while promoting a deep understanding of customer problems and behaviors.

Responsibilities

• Become deeply familiar with Vertex’s mission, vision, practices, market, customers, services, and systems
• Build trust through proactive communication, collaboration, demonstrating data driven decisions, and recommending quality user experience design solutions
• Socialize a deep and shared understanding within Vertex of our customers and their problems
• Meet with key stakeholders in product management and engineering to identify, plan, and prioritize the design needs and opportunities
• Use the right-sized research and design methodologies and tools of your choice
• Facilitate workshops with the team to frame problems, gather requirements, generate shared understanding, work through tradeoffs, produce generative design ideas, and deliver optimal solutions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• Five (5) or more years of experience in enterprise-level product design
• Experience with the following design competencies: user research, information architecture, interaction design, user interface design, visual design, usability testing, etc.
• Experience with common design tools or platforms
• Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Experience with Agile Scrum and Kanban teams

Key Skills

• Advanced ability to apply the Lean UX principles of collaborative design
• Advanced ability to communicate about your work
• Advanced time management skills
• Advanced ability to shape and facilitate internal design ceremonies
• Strong active listening skills
• Ability to simplify complex information and tailor communication based on audience

Benefits

• Company-expensed professional development opportunities
• Opportunities for coaching and mentoring