Product Designer

Job Description

<p><strong><u>This is you</u></strong></p><ul><li>A natural “I can figure out how to get anything made” attitude and comfortable working with third-party vendors to find the best rates (and the best quality).</li><li>Motivated by “checking things off the list” and “getting things done.”</li><li><em>Meticulously</em> organized and have an innate propensity to see a mess and clean it up.</li><li>Excellent project management skills that span a variety of work — from projects that span many months and have million-dollar budgets to super-fast turnaround times with shoestring budgets.</li><li>Has a deep passion and understanding for quality — understanding the value in attention to detail at both the smallest and largest levels.</li><li>Has strong aesthetic sensibilities to aid in fast feedback and turnaround times.</li><li>Has strong communication abilities and utilizes a clear, directive, and straightforward communication style, but can also read between the lines of others’ communication and navigate accordingly.</li><li>Effectively manages and communicates up and across to other teams.</li><li>Has a natural ability to motivate others and are motivated by helping team members reach their goals.</li><li>Strong process orientation, using or creating processes to anchor the often-ambiguous nature of design work towards desired outcomes and deliverables.</li><li>When you or a team member are lost, need direction, adhering to timelines, or desired outcomes aren’t possible, you escalate effectively.</li><li>Able to sense when teammates are or are not stressed and provide appropriate amounts of work based on capacity.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong><u>You will use your creativity and eye for design </u>-</strong></p><ul><li>Along with your technical knowledge</li><li>To develop great experiences that are not only functional but in-line with our overall branding &amp; design ethos. You’ll work closely with our product managers, engineering &amp; brand teams to deliver UI mockups, prototypes, MVPs and final products that have a direct impact on the customer’s user-experience of our product.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong><u>Core Competencies-</u></strong></p><ul><li>Working experience in multiple organizations as a Product Designer, UX Designer or UX Researcher.</li><li>Proficiency in Sigma, Sketch, Adobe XD or equivalent design tools.</li><li>Passionate about designing for users and strong believer in the importance of user research.</li><li>Intellectually curious and always attempting to seek out additional knowledge and viewpoints.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong><u>Desired Skills</u>-</strong></p><ul><li>Creates detailed, organized, and clear project plans and keeps track of simultaneous fast-moving projects and timelines.</li><li>Can easily read between the lines into what people and communicated and why. Can open lines of communication across teams. Is a pro at holding (and keeping) people accountable.</li><li>Is skillful at assigning and delegating tasks amongst the team based on skillset, professional interest, and capability.</li><li>Create pixel-perfect product design solutions, thoughtfully considered user flows, and crisply defined UI animations.</li><li>Craft detailed and thorough user journeys that account for all edge cases and error states, leaving no holes or gaps in the experience.</li><li>Strong attention to detail, including typography, spacing, state changes, interactions, colour, and error states.</li><li>Clear understanding of different research methods and how to embed these within a process to validate design decisions.</li><li>Can provide multiple solutions to a problem, knows when to stand strong and can adapt to business requirements to meet deadlines where necessary.</li><li>Incorporates behavioral patterns and psychological theory into design solutions.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong><u>Preferable but not necessary</u>-</strong></p><ul><li>Ecommerce experience.</li><li>Experience in UI designing.</li><li>Masters’ student in an accredited university program, preferably in design with an emphasis on data visualization.</li><li>GCC Experience.</li><li>Experience working in a scrum/squad team setup.</li></ul>