Lead Product Designer
Jama Software Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Lead Product Designer will drive product design excellence across multiple areas, translating complex workflows into intuitive experiences while ensuring solutions balance customer needs, technical constraints, and business goals. This role involves serving as the design lead for cross-functional squads, shaping roadmaps, and advocating for user experience in strategic discussions.
Responsibilities
- Drive Product Design Excellence: Lead design efforts across multiple product areas, ensuring cohesive, user-centered solutions that balance customer needs, technical constraints, and business goals
- Provide Cross-functional Leadership: Serve as the design lead for one or more cross-functional squads, driving rituals, facilitating alignment, and ensuring design quality throughout the product development lifecycle
- Advance The Design System: Demonstrate deep mastery of the design system and guide others in applying it effectively across products
- Champion Research and Craft: Lead customer discovery efforts, synthesizing insights that inform product direction, and uncover new opportunities
- Mentor and Elevate the Team: Provide structured mentorship to Product Designers and Senior Product Designers, offering feedback, coaching, and craft guidance
Requirements
- 8-15+ years of UX design experience, including substantial work on business software applications
- BS/BA (or equivalent experience) in graphic design, interaction design, HCI, new media, or a related field
- Demonstrated success working cross-functionally with Product and Engineering teams in a fast-paced software environment
- Strong systems thinking and the ability to design for complex, multi-step workflows
- Mastery of UX design principles and modern product design practices
- High proficiency with design tools such as Figma, Jira, Pendo, and related software
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions clearly to diverse audiences
- Strong sketching, ideation, and rapid prototyping abilities
- A portfolio showcasing high-quality UX work, strong craft, and clear problem-solving
Benefits
- Virtual first and culturally diverse work environment spanning 8 countries
- Ambitious and fun work with a chance to define distinct, company-shaping tangible contributions
- Flexible time off and leave programs crafted to meet the needs for your rejuvenation and extra support to cope with life events with a quarterly $75 wellness reimbursement
- Comprehensive and affordable medical, dental and vision plans with pre-tax savings accounts and a generous 401(k) employer match
- 6+ weeks of paid parental leave to bond with your new family member
- Emphasis on learning and development at all levels with a subscription to LinkedIn Learning
Key Skills
About Jama Software
Jama Connect® is the #1 Rated Requirements Management Software and Proven Requirements Traceability Solution. Jama Software enables teams to manage product requirements and enable Live Traceability™ across the development process, proven to reduce cycle times and improve product quality. Jama Software® is focused on maximizing innovation success in multidisciplinary engineering organizations. Numerous firsts for humanity in fields such as fuel cells, electrification, space, software-defined vehicles, surgical robotics, and more all rely on Jama Connect® requirements management software to minimize the risk of defects, rework, cost overruns, and recalls. Using Jama Connect, engineering organizations can now intelligently manage the development process by leveraging Live Traceability™ across best-of-breed tools to measurably improve outcomes. Our rapidly growing customer base spans the automotive, medical device, life sciences, semiconductor, aerospace & defense, industrial manufacturi
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