Senior Product Designer (Contract)

Pinnacol Assurance specializes in providing caring workers' compensation protection to Colorado employers and employees. With over 100 years of experience, we combine innovation with a commitment to community, celebrating continuous improvement, new ideas, compassion, teamwork, integrity, and excellence.

About the role

As a Senior Product Designer, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our products and user experiences. You will lead the design process from conception to launch, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative and user-centric solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design process for new products and features, from ideation and concept development to prototyping, testing, and implementation.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define product requirements and design specifications.
• Contribute to product strategy and roadmaps through customer research and design explorations.
• Conduct user research to understand user needs, behaviors, and pain points.
• Create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to communicate design concepts and gather feedback.
• Iterate on designs based on user feedback and data.
• Develop and maintain design systems and guidelines.
• Present design concepts and rationale to stakeholders.
• Mentor and guide junior designers.
• Contribute to achieving key product milestones by creating designs that drive customer growth, NPS score, conversions, and more.
• Review metrics and analytics to track and measure the impact of design.
• Build and maintain design documentation, including enterprise UI Style guide, Customer Journey maps, SiteFlows, and User flows.
• Ensure usage of consistent branding, language, and design across products.
• Stay current on product design best practices and platform capabilities.
• Conduct interviews with candidates to assess product design skills.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in design or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in product design, with a proven track record of delivering successful products.
• Strong knowledge and ability to work across all phases of the digital product design process, including user research, UX writing, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, interaction design, and usability testing.
• Proficiency in tools such as Figma, Pendo, Google Gemini, Miro, and Asana.
• Ability to analyze data from user research and synthesize insights to inform product decisions.
• Ability to adapt designs across a variety of platforms and form factors.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• A portfolio showcasing your design skills and experience.

Skills

• Developing Others: Fostering employee development by providing a supportive learning environment.
• Adaptability: Adapting to work effectively in ambiguous or changing situations, and with diverse individuals and groups.
• Interactive Communication: Listening to others and communicating articulately, fostering open communication.
• Creativity and Innovation: Generating viable, new approaches and solutions.
• Relationship Building: Establishing, sustaining, and fostering professional contacts to build, enhance, and connect networks for work purposes.
• Teamwork: Working collaboratively with others to achieve organizational goals.
• Curiosity/Inquiry: Respectfully and tactfully asking questions, investigating, researching, and demonstrating an inherent motivation to learn and grow.
• Empathy: Learning user needs and applying them to design solutions, critical to creating user-centered designs.
• Impact and Influence: Influencing and gaining others' support.

Work Environment

Regular attendance required. Extensive telephone and computer work in a remote environment.

Contract and Compensation Details

This is a 6-month contract position with the possibility of transitioning to permanent, though not guaranteed. The compensation for this role is targeted at $65.00–$85.00 per hour. Payroll and benefits will be administered through an agency partnership. This is a remote position; applicants must be located in the United States and able to work a flexible M-F 8am–5pm MST schedule.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including your experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.