Lead UX Product Designer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to distill complex problems and propose simple, elegant design solutions
• Design impactful User Interfaces, clever and effective interaction patterns which help establish digital process familiarity
• Research, define and maintain user personas, user mental models, and user journey maps
• Develop and maintain design principles, style guide and pattern library to be used in all design, prototyping, and front-end engineering functions
• Translate from sketch to specs complex business workflows into user flows, wireframes, interaction models, hi-fi user interface prototypes, and engineering ready delivery assets following the Agile development process.
• Be the customer advocate to drive relentless focus on the user and their desires, thinking, constraints, opportunities
• Plan appropriate type and execute necessary customer research including: Concept, Heuristic, Usability, A/B Testing
• Using design thinking techniques collaborate across various stakeholders to influence strategy and roadmap
• Constantly improve technical acumen to maintain awareness of current and emerging front-end code capabilities and constraints across all standards to ensure technical business needs are met while maintaining a strong focus on the user experience

Qualifications, Skills And Requirements

• Very strong data visualization skills
• Ability to present design ideas clearly and effectively to help stakeholders make decisions
• Understanding and hands on experience with UX research methodologies and ability to execute them if needed
• Working experience with Figma, Sketch, Adobe CS, and InVision
• Practical understanding of the latest technologies used to build rich web, desktop, and mobile apps (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, React, APIs)
• Extremely high attention to detail in planning, managing, producing, and polishing design deliverables
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills
• Able to prioritize effectively
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Enjoys being part of a small team with a big mission

Education, Training And Experience

• Hands on Designer Experience with solid technical background
• 4 years of demonstrated experience solving complex design problems for Web or software solutions for data intensive and transaction-oriented applications
• Deep understanding of Design principles and their application
• Expertise in defining and implementing user experience design and brand guidelines
• Experience in direct, hands-on collaboration with developers, business analysts, product managers
• Solid experience with all phases of UX process: sketching, wireframing, prototyping, site mapping, user journey mapping, user flows, user testing