Job Description
Lead Product Designer
Location: United States
EMPLOYEE TYPE:
Contract
WORKPLACE:
Remote
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Lead Product Designer for a top retail company.An ideal candidate for thiscontractexcels in design thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and possesses a firm understanding of industry best practices in native mobile and mobile-first web experiences. They are organized, self-driven, and invested in mentoring and guiding the junior designers on their product teams. This position will beremote.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborating and communicating professionally with internal and cross-functional teams
- Works well with cross-disciplinary teams, including FEWD, to create functional and engaging product experiences
- Creating experience maps, user scenarios, comps, and flows
- Designs user experiences from low-fidelity sketches to high-fidelity prototypes
- Creates rapid prototypes to validate design concepts
- Developing processes and approaches to solving design problems
- Coordinates multi-disciplinary project teams
- Communicates design considerations to different audiences, including developers, management, and leadership
- Uses known methods and anticipates problems to strategize design solutions that meet and exceed business objectives
- Works closely with various teams to gain user insights, identify opportunities, validate concepts, and socialize ideas across the team
- Presenting work to cross-functional teams and leadership
- Demonstrates experience executing design practices within Agile software development
- Collaborates with Project Owners and Business Analysts to build and maintain a product backlog
- Works closely with partners on the crafting of requirements and user stories.
- Understands and considers business goals into their design decisions/solutions
Required Qualifications:
- BachelorsDegreeor equivalent experience
- 8+ years hands-on designing product experiences or general UX design
- 1+ years mentoring other designers
- Previous experience working on a cross-functional product team in an Agile environment
- Experts in navigating and leveraging a heavily cross-functional environment
- Organized leaderwho hasextensive experience in leading the delivery of successful work and have contributed to or led work on multiple shipped products
- Can clearly and confidently communicate decision-making rationale to their team, large groups, and organizational leadership
- Takes a leadership role in cross-discipline meetings, bringing a design voice to the conversations and building trust between design teams and other disciplines
- Fosters a highly collaborative design process and is trusted by their team to talk through both scope and technical challenges and negotiate thoughtful outcomes.
- Able to positively influence partners and stakeholders, both directly and indirectly
- Proficient in communicating direction, design principles, and design specifications
- Understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other front-end code frameworks
- Experience designing native mobile apps
- Experience in ecommerce
- Working knowledge of design research methodologies