What you'll do:
- Design Thinking: Explore and solve design problems for a variety of SaaS products for our customers.
- Analyze user and stakeholder feedback to identify problems and synthesize new, elegant solutions to solve pain points.
- Use a strong understanding of our products and assets, the competitive landscape, and our users in product decision-making.
- Conduct lightweight research of the competitive landscape and learn from user feedback.
Design Execution:
- Craft efficient user flows, thoughtful wireframes, high-fidelity pixel-perfect designs, prototypes, and pattern documentation with minimal supervision.
- Create detailed design specs with all manner of states considered, well-annotated, and ready for handoff to our product development team.
- Own a feature and execute cohesive, forward-thinking, and industry competitive design solutions from end-to-end with pixel-perfect UI deliverables.
- Support your designs with thoughtful prototypes and simple animations to demonstrate interactions and simulate new flows.
- Validate creative ideas through rapid prototyping and user testing.
- Track feature-related decisions and updates.
- Prioritize work based on team needs.
Collaboration:
- Serve as a working member of a swiftly moving cross-functional team working on multiple projects at one time.
- Support developers with testing, validation, and edge case designs.
- Support feature development with thorough testing of new features, creating detailed bug reports across all breakpoints, and giving efficient guidance for dev and QA teams.
- Meet with the design team regularly to discuss product design decisions and transform product insights into intuitive, user-friendly application features.
Team Citizenship:
- Assist with finding new design talent and guiding junior-mid level peers.
- Push forward the craft of product design with an eye on industry trends and best practices.
- Make an impact in the process of how design work is done, the operations of the design team, and the overall team culture.
What you should have:
- You have a Bachelorโs degree in Design, HCI, or a related field.
- You are a well rounded product designer with at least 4-7 years professional experience in fully responsive web environments.
- You have a remarkable product-focused portfolio or prior experience in a product design role for an impressive consumer app, SASS company, or agency.
- You have a deep understanding of and hands-on experience with modern UX design concepts and tools, as well as platform-specific constraints and guidelines.
- You have a passion for amazing product design and an appreciation for elegant user experiences.
- You are well-spoken and can present ideas effectively.
- You are highly motivated and can be self-directed.
- You have a high attention to detail and excellent follow-through.
- You are an outstanding team contributor providing thoughtful viewpoints on product design in a flexible and easygoing way.
- You are well-versed in giving and receiving feedback constructively.
- You are an open-minded thinker whoโs constantly in search of engaging, usable interaction patterns, and cutting-edge design work in the real world.
- Deeply understand the ins and outs of Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, and other tools.
Preferred:
- Real-world, road-tested SaaS product design experience.
