Lead Product Designer

About the Role

Robert Half is hiring a Lead Product Designer to join the Marketing Department. You will join a Product Design team of tinkerers, prototypers, and researchers and apply human-centered design to re-imagine a marketplace for talent around the world for candidates, staffing professionals, and clients. We're seeking a Lead Product Designer who is a great product thinker, passionate about user interface design, and cares about making a meaningful impact for people.

As a Lead Product Designer, you'll be part of a product "squad" and involved in all aspects of the product design process: framing problems, understanding human behavior through design research, conceptualizing and prototyping early ideas, helping envision future "north star" directions, creating high-res designs and workflows, and collaborating highly with product management, engineering, your own peers, and more.

Responsibilities

• Craft clarity from ambiguity
• Drive meaningful product outcomes working closely with Product and Engineering peers
• Collaborate and communicate design effectively across multiple functions in the organization
• Ability to influence others and build consensus, while dealing with ambiguity
• Systems thinker and ability to see the whole ecosystem and provide solutions that better the entire user flow not just the feature
• Be perceived as a leader in your "squad" that advocates for and applies human-centered design practices

Requirements

• High degree of craft for all aspects of product design: user research, prototyping, interaction and visual design
• Collaborate closely with product owners, engineers and user research to create a vision for your product area and bring others along in your thinking
• Expert knowledge in design tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD
• Capacity to create innovative end-to-end experiences across multiple channels (including web and mobile) that are grounded in human insight, data and business goals
• Experience using analytics, user research and other approaches to help make decisions and iterate on the product
• Experience working with, designing, or maintaining design systems
• Experience working with distributed teams
• Experience working with product management and engineering teams
• Experience leading or facilitating workshops, design sprints, and design studios

Location

Remote applicants encouraged. Western time zone is a plus. Company headquarters located in San Ramon, CA.

Pay

The typical annual salary range for this position is shown below and is negotiable depending upon experience and location. The position is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus.

$131,000.00 - $203,000.00

Benefits

• Group health insurance benefits (medical, vision, dental)
• FSA and HSA healthcare accounts
• Life and accident insurance
• Adoption and fertility assistance
• Paid parental leave of up to 6 weeks
• Short/long term disability
• Paid time off for vacation, personal needs, and sick time. The amount of Choice Time Off (CTO) our people receive varies based on their years of service and is pro-rated based on the hours worked per week. A new hire earns up to 17 days of CTO per calendar year.
• Up to 11 paid holidays per calendar year
• Opportunity to contribute to our company 401(k) savings and investment plan or deferred compensation plan (if eligible), with an employer match of 100% on the first 3% of your contributions for eligible employees