Why This Role is Exciting
- We are looking for a talented senior product designer who is excited by the challenge of transforming the work of audit, risk, and compliance teams everywhere.
- This position demands a high level of output in a fast-paced environment, but also offers opportunity for growth in a fast scaling business.
- In this role, you will bridge real-world business challenges with intuitive user experience.
- You will also have the opportunity to help shape AuditBoard6s design processes and contribute to our design system as we scale.
- We are looking for someone who will serve as a mentor to other designers and inspire a culture of innovation, growth, and development.
- Our ideal candidate is someone who loves to collaborate with others, but can also independently take an idea from concept to production.
Key Responsibilities
- Be a self-starter. Discover high-value opportunities and prioritize ruthlessly to maximize user and business impact.
- Lead multiple strategic projects end-to-end, including managing ambiguity and complexity.
- Support other team members to ensure success.
- Collaborate to drive value. Drive the end-to-end design lifecycle for core platform concepts and capabilities, from discovery and prioritization to delivering significant user and business value.
- Leverage collaboration with product managers, engineers, customers, subject-matter experts and fellow designers to balance business needs, user needs, and engineering feasibility in design solutions.
- Design for the user. Influences and drives key product decisions by independently designing experiments and performing research studies, including direct user research.
- Designs user experience that captures holistic context (brand, support, onboarding, sales etc.) and every touch point in the user6s experience.
- Raises our design bar by creating innovative experiences that are not just visually appealing but intuitive and user-centric.
- Measure success. Takes responsibility for the quality and success of their designs, the end-product, the end-users, and the business goals.
- Consistently measures success of work, tying it back to business-relevant outcomes.
- Product design is ultimately measured by creating value for our customers.
- Make an impact. Responsible for shaping AuditBoard's design lifecycle, including research/discovery, ideation, design, validation, iteration, and development.
- Influences strategy and contributes to user experience vision and user interface standards for the entire product suite, including design system strategy; helps evolve product toward unified design vision that drives significant business value.
Platform Experience
- Background on platform teams within B2B SaaS, especially in highly technical or complex domains.
Vision Leadership
- Proven ability to own and drive a coherent design vision within cross-functional leadership groups, aligning design strategies with product and engineering goals.
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- Deep expertise in design principles combined with strong comfort and fluency in product and engineering contexts; able to provide meaningful perspective and contribute value across the entire PED triad.
Attributes for a Successful Candidate
- BA/BS degree in Design (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, etc), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience designing web applications or similar products.
- Experience leading and/or mentoring product design teams
- Demonstrable product design skills with a portfolio that showcases a breadth of styles and approaches (portfolio required).
- Proficiency in Figma. Knowledge of other product design and wire-framing tools is a plus.
- Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to human-computer interaction.
- Excellent leadership, communication and collaboration skills.
- Have experience designing enterprise or data-intensive applications.
- Bonus if you have experience using HTML, CSS, and Javascript for rapid prototyping, and have working knowledge of Responsive Design.
