Product Designer
Hot Topic & Boxlunch 🇺🇸 City of Industry, CA 91715, United States of America
The Product Designer will help lead digital experiences for brands like Hot Topic, Box Lunch, and Her Universe, focusing on creating seamless and engaging websites, apps, and in-store experiences. Responsibilities include attending meetings, understanding specifications, conducting research, creating design artifacts like wireframes and prototypes, and contributing to the design system.
Responsibilities
- Attend team meetings, daily scrums & project kick-offs
- Understand product specifications, business goals & user expectations/frustrations
- Conduct competitive research to document similar challenges & solutions
- Create wireframes, high-fidelity comps and prototypes
- Brainstorm & design multiple options, to find the best solution for the project
- Contribute to and maintain a growing design system to elevate the brand’s visual identity
- Work directly with product owners, stakeholders & developers to identify & adhere experiences to our standards and requirements
- Take an active role in learning new skills, overcoming challenges, and engaging with team & cross-functional partners
Requirements
- 2+ years of relevant experience, ideally in eCommerce
- User Experience fundamentals (Wireframes, User Journeys, Accessibility Guidelines & Prototypes)
- Visual Design fundamentals (High Fidelity Mockups, Layout and Visual Hierarchy, Typography, Iconography)
- Understanding of best practices, patterns & design trends
- Understanding of platform differences: Mobile Web, Desktop, App (iOS & Android)
- HTML & CSS fundamentals
- E-Commerce and User Research experience or understanding
- Experience with component libraries & frameworks, such as Bootstrap
- Previous experience working within a team environment, using agile & lean processes
- Experience with design and prototyping tools, such as Figma, XD, Sketch etc and Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop)
- Experience with AI design tools (Figma Make, Cursor, etc)
- An interest in internet culture and pop-culture
- Good communication skills: written, verbal & visual
- An understanding of retail, e-commerce, and marketing fundamentals
Key Skills
About Hot Topic & Boxlunch
At Hot Topic we pride ourselves on being the destination of pop culture and music merchandise. We do this by hiring the best people, having the best product, and providing the best customer experience for our one-of-a-kind fans. Founded in 1989 in a Southern California garage, Hot Topic employs over 10,000 associates between 600+ retail locations, our headquarters, and two distribution centers. We give back to our communities in our partnerships with Mental Health America, Notes for Notes, and The Trevor Project. We strive for HT Inc. to be an inclusive place where every individual can be successful, build their career, contribute to the company, our customers and community - AND HAVE FUN DOING IT! When you join us, you become a part of something bigger. You join gifted individuals who are passionate about creating the best retail experience, best product, and a fierce connection to our brand. With talent from diverse backgrounds, we’ve assembled a group of highly motivated and dri
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