Product Designer
SevenDesign is a multidisciplinary, strategy-driven creative agency based in Sausalito, California. Our tight-knit team prides ourselves on partnering with our clients, from three-person startups to international corporations. Our work is always rooted in process and connects with audiences through targeted content, UX best practices, and strategic design to achieve measurable results.
We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our team. As a Senior Product Designer at SevenDesign you will play a key role in both strategy and design to lead a large web application initiative for a global brand in the cosmetics industry.
This position is a contract role with potential to turn to full time hire.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct and synthesize research
- Work to refine and expand upon the product roadmap in the areas of user experience design
- Sketch and prototype solutions for user workflows and interfaces to ensure designs meet the needs of the audience
- Design user friendly and intuitive experiences
- Deliver production-ready designs for easy implementation
- Contribute to the creation of design patterns and a UI design system
- Rapidly iterate designs and validate with user research, usability testing, analytics and other data
- Define and complete sprint-based initiatives to advance the product design and user experience in coordination with the technology development roadmap Â
- Collaborate closely with strategy, content and technology teams, building effective working relationships and bringing the wider team into the design process
- Present strong rationale for design decisions
- Solicit feedback early and often from your peers, including other UX/UI designers and teammates
The ideal candidate will have examples of:
- Designs that solved a problem in a website, product, or app
- Shipped applications (seeing through all the stages of product life cycle)
- Validation of design decisions through user/usability research
- Expertise in system thinking
- Well-crafted and elegant designs that communicate complex messages or support complex workflows
- A refined sense of visual design and typography with pixel-perfect layout skills
- Work with developers to understand constraints and ensure that designs are built as intended
Requirements:
- An outstanding portfolio showcasing a depth of knowledge in user experience, interaction, and visual/user interface design
- Comfortable with a fast-paced environment with changing product requirements
- Ability to thrive with minimal guidance, be proactive and handle uncertainty and ambiguity
- Experience working and collaborating with diverse teams with ability to effectively interact with both technical and nontechnical people across departments and disciplines
- Experience with Agile software development and an interest in shaping and improving team processes
- Familiarity with standard design and prototyping tools and a working understanding of front end web technologies (Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, Invision, Framer, HTML, CSS, JS)
- Familiar with trends in design for relevant platforms (desktop, mobile, tablet)
- 4-5+ years of demonstrated experience designing products that have shipped and been used by real customers
- Formal training (Bachelors/Masters) in Design, HCI or related field