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Product Designer II
Company | Lessen |
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Location | Chicago, IL, USA |
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Salary | $80000 – $85000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s, Bootcamp |
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Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- Proficient in Figma and Miro.
- Proficient in working with design system UI libraries.
- Ability to present UX research to build empathy for users, UX deliverables to convey workflows, and Figma prototypes to bring experiences to fruition.
- Ability to convey user experience through stories and presentations and frame problems for a diverse audience of stakeholders, helping them envision potential design opportunities.
- Working knowledge of usability principles, conventions, and techniques.
- Able to proactively manage expectations and communicate accurate timelines.
- Passionate and vocal advocate about all things Product Design and other areas of design and innovation.
- Passionate about taking complex processes and making them simple to navigate.
- Has a track record of delivering work that demonstrates consideration for multiple inputs and perspectives to arrive at a robust solution that works for users and the business.
- Demonstrates an understanding of typography, color theory, and layout basics across various platforms and devices.
- Ability to apply Figma best practices with component work, variants, and auto layout to ensure consistency and streamline implementation.
- 2+ years of experience creating digital designs from inception through to implementation.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
- UX/HCI education at a boot camp, college, or graduate school, or equivalent work experience.
- Experience collaborating with Product Management and Engineering counterparts.
- Experience contributing to a project’s entire product lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Leverage your past work experience to contribute ideas and designs for your assigned scrum team within your first 30 days.
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment that demands rapidly concepting, iterating and testing concepts.
- Ability to work on both greenfield and brownfield products.
- Design elegant, smart, and usable solutions for web and mobile applications.
- Create and prioritize your tasks effectively. Demonstrate strong self-management skills.
- Use design thinking methodologies to empathize, learn, ideate, and refine.
- Be curious about the industry, the company, its users, your teammates and yourself.
- Take ownership of the end-to-end Product Design for your assigned scrum teams. Gather product requirements independently and drive the design review cycle.
- Communicate design strategy and rationale to product managers, clients, users, developers, and other team members.
- Craft copy that helps users complete the task at hand.
- Adhere and enhance our Design System.
- Research and share knowledge of the industry’s latest trends and tools.
- Work with team members across time zones.
- Perform ad-hoc projects and other duties as assigned.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in designing SaaS products.
- Experience working in fast-paced agile environments.