About the Job
Weβre looking for a smart and curious Product Designer, with a solid foundation across the fundamentals of UX, UI, interaction design, and researchβpaired with a proactive curiosity for leveraging AI to enhance both the user experience and design efficiency. As part of our pod model, our Product Designers own the end-to-end design process for specific features and product areas within their dedicated squad, advocating for the customer through discovery, design execution, and user testing. Youβll work closely with your squad to deliver high-quality solutions across our desktop and mobile websites, our iOS App.What Youβll Do:
- Own the end-to-end design process for specific features or small product areas within a cross-functional squad, delivering user-centric solutions with moderate autonomy.
- Deliver all stages of the user experience, from supporting product discovery and participating in vision-setting to delivering high-quality wireframes and prototypes.
- Conduct usability tests and competitive analysis to deeply understand user goals, using those insights to iterate on designs and drive improvements for your features.
- Design functional and inspirational customer experiences that prioritize user needs while meeting defined business demands and milestones.
- Speak clearly to tradeoffs and the βWhyβ behind design decisions in terms non-designers can understand and participate in.
- Utilize our existing design system and collaborate with the Design System designer to ensure a consistent, intuitive user experience across your feature set.
- Proactively participate in design critiques, providing constructive feedback to peers and supporting a culture of inclusive collaboration.
About You:
- 3+ years of experience working in a mobile consumer-focused business/product.
- Strong understanding of experience principles and customer needs such as motivations and behaviors, with the ability to translate them into engaging and actionable deliverables.
- Ability to create and present strategic experiences that ladder up into business goals and opportunities.
- Excellent verbal and written skills to be able to communicate to both technical and non-technical savvy audience members.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines under pressure with little management.
- Ability to critique the quality of both UX and visual designs to improve the final product experience creating immersive websites, mobile websites, mobile applications, experiential elements and paid media campaigns.
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Strong sense of accountability and ownership of projects.
- Experience presenting to executives and guiding decisions for new enhancements, features or redesigns.
- Experience working in an agile environment.
- Strong working knowledge of Figma (including prototyping) and UserTesting.
Benefits:
At Rent the Runway, weβre committed to the wellbeing of our employees, and aim to create a workplace that fosters both personal and professional growth. Our inclusive benefits include, but are not limited to:- Paid Time Off including vacation, paid bereavement, and family sick leave - every employee needs time to take care of themselves and their family.
- Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return to work program - because we know your newest family member(s) deserve your undivided attention.
- Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service - Unplug, recharge, and have some fun!
- Exclusive employee subscription and rental discounts - to ensure you experience the magic of renting the runway (and give us valued feedback!).
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental, FSA and dependent care from day 1 of employment - Your health comes first and weβve got you covered.
- 401k match - an investment in your future.
- Company wide events and outings - our team spirit is no joke - we know how to have fun!
- Hybrid Work - our corporate employees have the option to work remotely 1 day a week, in accordance with Company policies.
