Senior Product Designer (Legal)
Blink UX · Boston, MA · 3 days ago
Hybrid$135k–$140k/yrContract
About the role
Blink UX is seeking a talented designer to join our Embedded practice. This role will work closely with product managers and engineers to deliver impactful design solutions for our clients.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end design initiatives for assigned products and features, owning work from discovery through delivery.
- Conceive and deliver design solutions that align with strategic business objectives, user needs, and business workflows.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to craft experiences that are cohesive, consistent, and accessible across the product ecosystem.
- Drive systems-level design by identifying and developing reusable patterns, components, and tools that enable scalable, high-quality experiences across products and platforms.
- Contribute to and evolve the design system to ensure consistency, efficiency, and long-term scalability, documenting usage guidance and key decisions.
- Ensure all design elements, templates, and final solutions function effectively across browsers, screen sizes, and technical constraints.
- Translate complex requirements, including security and role-based access constraints, into intuitive designs and production-ready assets.
- Drive strong alignment across product and engineering teams through clear rationale, specifications, and design reviews to support implementation.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to develop concepts early and maintain design intent through implementation.
- Balance user experience goals with technical feasibility and delivery timelines, iterating based on feedback and analytics where available.
- Critically evaluate and refine design workflows to improve efficiency, scalability, and quality, including handoff and design QA practices.
- Identify opportunities to optimize and automate processes, where it improves standards, driving operational effectiveness within the design practice.
- Serve as a thought partner to other designers, proactively sharing knowledge and elevating design standards through critique and pairing.
- Promote a culture of continuous learning, constructive feedback, and experimentation through prototyping and visualization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from a four-year college or university, and a minimum of 5 years of experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Proficiency in Figma and ability to adopt additional design and prototyping resources as needed.
- Portfolio/case studies demonstrating shipped web applications and end-to-end ownership.
- Experience designing complex, permissions-driven environments (confidentiality, role-based access).
- Accessibility competency for web applications (design + specification).
- High aptitude for creative problem solving and innovative solutions.
- Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design.
- Advanced understanding of visual design and UI design principles for web applications.
- Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum ceremonies and collaborating with engineering through build, QA, and release.
- Proven experience with clearly communicating design processes, ideas, solutions, and trade-offs to stakeholders and technical partners.
- Ability to adapt to change and balance competing demands.
- Ability to make design decisions using qualitative research and quantitative signals (e.g., feedback and analytics), and document rationale.
Qualifications
- Must have a Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from a four-year college or university, and a minimum of 5 years of experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Must demonstrate proficiency in Figma and be able to adopt additional design and prototyping resources as needed.
- Must have a portfolio/case studies demonstrating shipped web applications and end-to-end ownership.
- Must have experience designing complex, permissions-driven environments (confidentiality, role-based access).
- Must have accessibility competency for web applications (design + specification).
- Must have a high aptitude for creative problem solving and innovative solutions.
- Must have fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design.
- Must have advanced understanding of visual design and UI design principles for web applications.
- Must have working knowledge of Agile/Scrum ceremonies and collaborating with engineering through build, QA, and release.
- Must have proven experience with clearly communicating design processes, ideas, solutions, and trade-offs to stakeholders and technical partners.
- Must have the ability to adapt to change and balance competing demands.
- Must have the ability to make design decisions using qualitative research and quantitative signals (e.g., feedback and analytics), and document rationale.
Skills
- Proficiency in Figma and ability to adopt additional design and prototyping resources as needed.
- Experience designing complex, permissions-driven environments (confidentiality, role-based access).
- Accessibility competency for web applications (design + specification).
- High aptitude for creative problem solving and innovative solutions.
- Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design.
- Advanced understanding of visual design and UI design principles for web applications.
- Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum ceremonies and collaborating with engineering through build, QA, and release.
- Proven experience with clearly communicating design processes, ideas, solutions, and trade-offs to stakeholders and technical partners.
Benefits
- Competitive salary range of $135,000 - $140,000 per year, DOE.
- Flexible work schedule with hybrid options.
- Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.
Pay
- $135,000 - $140,000 per year, DOE
Schedule
- Hybrid work schedule with flexibility.
Company Information
- Based in Seattle and with studios in Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, New York City, and Bengaluru.
- Founded in 2008, Blink UX is a product design firm that partners with ambitious companies like Amazon, Google, and NASA to create transformative products and experiences through strategy, research, and design.
- We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, veteran status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status or disability.
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