At Smartsheet, our purpose is to empower everyone to achieve more. As a member of the Product Design team, you will shape the future of work, making our category-leading work execution platform valuable, elegant, and engaging. As a Senior Product Designer, you will apply principles of design thinking to conceptualise and create engaging, valuable, and intuitive user experiences for our Data Integrations products. You will represent the end-user and promote human-centered methodologies across the product team to ensure new designs that meet peopleโs needs from first-time users to seasoned experts.
The User Experience (UX) team is a large and growing team of designers, researchers, writers, and program managers. We love what we do and help our customers love the collaborative work they do!ย We value ย authenticity, passion, and working collaboratively with our product teams and fellow XD teammates to help guide a holistic and inclusive product experience.ย We are setting the experience bar for enterprise applications so our customers feel empowered, inspired, and connected.
You will report to the headquarters-based UX Manager and can work from our Edinburgh, London, UK office, or remotely within the UK.
You Will:
- Gain an understanding of user needs and goals and communicate them with diverse product teams
- Create understanding across product teams to launch new features and evolve existing ones based on an understanding of user needs, business goals, and technical constraints
- Create task flows, wireframes, prototypes, and other interaction design deliverables
- Conduct usability testing and incorporate user and team feedback
- Create visually stunning interfaces that make emotional connections with users and communicate the brand
- Provide assets, specifications, and guidance for implementation of the user interface throughout the development process
- Rapidly iterate on prototypes and designs to A/B test and experiment on the most effective solutions
- You will perform other duties as assigned
You Have:
- 5+ years design experience, with strong information design and visual design skill, including color, typography, and hierarchy
- Passion for the data visualisation and analytics products
- Experience facilitating activities to gather insights on user needs and goals and conducting usability testing
- Experience leading one or more critical products in direction and strategic thinking while developing product goals, identifying opportunities, and making decisions based on the customer impact and product vision
- Experience in designing interactions accounting customer needs, emotions, and scalability
- Excellent storytelling skill with the ability to clearly articulate a problem space,ย design decisions, Proactively solicit and provide feedback from designers and a larger product team in order to continually raise our bar for quality
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- Excellent visual design skills and sensibilities
- Expert in Figma, Sketch, Principal, or other visual design, wireframing, and prototyping tools
- Help teams across the organisation, including Product Management and Engineering, gain alignment on user, business, and technical needs
- Degree in Design (Interaction, Product, Communication, HCD, or related) or equivalent experience
- Working knowledge of HTML and CSS to help engage in design conversations with developers
- Legally eligible to work in the UK on an ongoing basis
Perks & Benefits:
- Employer-paid Private Medical and Dental, additional cost for family members
- Equity - Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for eligible roles
- Monthly contributions toward your pension
- Monthly stipend to support your work and productivity
- 25 days paid for Holiday + Bank Holidays + Flexible Time Away Program
- 20 weeks fully paid Maternity Leave
- 12 weeks fully paid Paternity/Adoption Leave
- Personal paid Volunteer Day to support our community
- Opportunities for professional growth and development including access to Udemy online courses
- Company Funded Perks including a counseling membership, salary sacrifice options, and your own personal Smartsheet account.
- Teleworking options from any registered location in the UK (role specific)