Senior Product Designer (contract)

About the role

In this contingent resource assignment, you may:

• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for experience design, such as content design, design programs, design research and strategy, or product design.
• Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale, or longer-term experience design challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables.
• Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel.

Responsibilities

• Utilize your full range of product design skills (design thinking, interaction design, visual design, information architecture, user research) in developing useful and usable employee experiences by partnering with product owners, developers, and design peers and partners.
• Craft design solutions and deliver supporting artifacts.
• Connect experience insights with design outcomes.
• Participate in and contribute to Agile planning and ceremonies with partners.
• Consult as necessary on design direction with peers and partners.

Requirements

• Proven experience and performance as an inventive and collaborative product designer who understands how to work in a complex ecosystem and partner to deliver transformative digital experiences.
• Understand how to bring user perspectives and needs into the conversation with partners and navigate challenges to achieving the desired user experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience design, content design, design programs, design research and strategy, or product design experience.
• 3+ years of Figma (Command of common design tools).
• Familiarity with iterative and Agile development processes and knowledge of application layer design and front-end code frameworks (React, jQuery, etc.).
• Experience designing for digital financial products.
• Experience leading design efforts with a lean UX and Agile approach to delivery.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with driving digital user experience change and using data to inform design outcomes and narratives.
• Ability to ask appropriate questions, communicate effectively and persuasively to convey design solutions to a broad range of stakeholders: product managers, engineers, customers, etc.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to shape and drive work independently.
• Experience designing effectively within a standards-aligned design environment and knowing when to push design system boundaries as necessary.
• Experience with strategic planning and diagrammatic skills (Information Architecture), low fidelity wireframe production, high-fidelity design comp production, and design interaction specifications – including which artifact best suits the communication need.
• Ability to energize and motivate others; thrives in teams; highly inclusive, curious, and collaborative with proven ability to lead through influence (vs. authority).