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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
— Steve Jobs
As a software product designer, you will guide the product design vision by balancing the needs of end-users, the client’s business goals, and technical constraints. You will work across all project phases, executing on both conceptual and tangible work.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate workshops and activities with clients, developers, and end-users to inform product design
- Drive product design via the use of qualitative research and the development of user personas
- Synthesize research into key findings and artifacts that bring clarity to the product’s vision
- Create user testing frameworks and facilitate testing on an as-needed basis
- Design through a lens of usability, accessibility, and inclusion while balancing business goals and technical feasibility
Requirements
- 8+ years experience working as a professional software product designer
- Practitioner of human-centered design in all phases of the product development lifecycle
- Skill in user research, user experience, and user interface design
- Track record of designing software applications via constructing and managing a design plan that achieves the project objectives
Key Skills
- Teaching and mentoring where appropriate
- Leadership and team management
- Process creation and improvement
- Ability to present, communicate, and influence stakeholders at all levels of client organizations
- Familiarity with agile design or lean UX
- Familiarity with Human-Centered Design (HCD) concepts and practices
- Familiarity with user-testing practices
- Excellent interpersonal skills, high emotional intelligence
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Benefits
- Quarterly and Annual cash profit sharing
- Paid time off and holidays
- Atomic-sponsored health insurance (including dependents) with HSA contributions
- Access to Dental & Vision Insurance with Competitive Premiums
- Employee ownership
- Sustainable working pace
- Regular 401(k) company contributions (3%)
- Parental leave
- Long and short-term disability insurance
- Support for professional development
About Atomic Object
Atomic Object helps companies innovate and grow with custom software that’s beautiful, reliable, and easy to use. We work with executives to improve their bottom line by delivering new products, enhancing existing products, modernizing legacy products, and integrating AI into their software systems. Our team of designers and developers can bring your idea to life — from planning to implementation. We’ll help you mitigate risk, make smart trade-offs, and get the most value possible for your budget. From our offices in Grand Rapids, Chicago, Raleigh-Durham, and Ann Arbor, we serve a national base of clients — from startups to the Fortune 500. Whatever your market, we'll help you out-compete with software created with your business outcomes in mind. Employee-owned; since 2001.
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