Product Designer & Consultant

The Product Designer & Consultant will guide the product design vision by balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create products from concept through implementation.

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
• Stay current with evolving design practices, tools, and technologies to continually refine and improve product design approaches
• Establish the information architecture of digital products and services
• Produce low-high fidelity wireframes and design prototypes
• Establish visual language patterns, transforming wireframes into high-fidelity UI specs
• Deliver visual design assets needed for technical implementation, such as icons, illustrations, and animation specs
• Pair with other team members to transfer knowledge and experience gained
• Possess a kind, curious, and low-ego approach to collaboration with Atomic and client teams
• Understand that mentorship is a two-way street; we can all learn from one another
• Be comfortable working on teams with members of varying levels of experience
• Support developer utilization by designing product functionality several sprints ahead
• Participate in the Agile project flow by providing solutions and feedback
• Work with Atomic and client teams to define and prioritize project work
• Find success when requirements aren’t clearly spelled out
• Adapt to changing project circumstances
• Leverage new AI tools to develop wireframes and clickable prototypes
• Understand best practices and models to use based on desired outcomes
• Design for AI experiences and interactions within software products
• Develop AI frameworks that enable team and client success
• Contribute to Atomic’s AI toolkit and develop reusable prompts
• Work out of our Ann Arbor office for a minimum of 60% of your workweek
• Work a full-time job (generally 40-42 hours per week)
• Track time daily
• Engage in professional development and continued learning outside of work hours
• Periodically contribute to Atomic’s blog
• Travel occasionally—as needed and possible

Requirements

• 8+ years experience working as a professional 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
• Experience with product design and applying the user-centered design process to a variety of business problems
• Comfortable collaborating with clients/stakeholders, designers, developers, and delivery leads

Key Skills

• Strong design toolkit
• Leadership and mentoring skills
• Effective communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to support the growth of the office by contributing to ideas that strengthen design practices
• Demonstrates strong facilitation skills in team settings
• Builds trust and positive working relationships across teams and clients
• Encourages open, constructive feedback—both giving and receiving
• Contributes to a healthy, inclusive, and collaborative team culture
• Ability to present, communicate, and influence stakeholders at all levels, including executive and C-level
• Skilled in client management: setting expectations, guiding decisions, and maintaining partnerships
• Effective at navigating complexity: clarifying ambiguity, identifying tradeoffs, and aligning stakeholders
• Excellent verbal, visual and written communication skills
• High emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills
• Ability to be a strategic consultant and lead tough conversations for the success of the team or project
• Strong collaborator who works effectively with cross-functional teams
• Ability to conduct or support user research and synthesize insights into actionable design direction
• Adapts to changes in project strategies, client priorities, and team dynamics
• Contributes to product strategy by identifying opportunities and risks
• Balances feasibility, usability and viability with clients and team members
• Connects design decisions to measurable business outcomes
• Brings order to chaos: identifying patterns through a systems-thinking approach
• Self-starter with strong time-management across short- and long-term horizons
• Demonstrates financial stewardship: prioritizing work efficiently and using project budgets responsibly
• Effective at framing problems and clarifying goals
• Skilled in early-stage concepting: sketches, wireframes, and low-fidelity prototypes
• Capable of delivering high-definition visual design and on-brand, production-ready assets
• Proficiency in modern interaction design paradigms, workflows, patterns, and UI conventions
• Experience with prototyping tools, design systems, and implementation-ready specifications
• Skilled in user-testing practices and incorporating findings into design iterations
• Applies AI tools throughout the design process to improve efficiency, quality, and exploration
• Understands implementation considerations and collaborates closely with developers
• Familiarity with Agile/lean UX and Human-Centered Design (HCD) practices
• Stays informed of new tools and trends in the field of design and the tech industry more broadly

Benefits

• 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