Senior Product Designer

About Us

Covers is a professional services company who specializes in digital media and has assembled a highly skilled team of experts in various fields. Our unique culture empowers our talented teams in Engineering, Product, Marketing, Content, SEO, and many more to strive to their absolute potential and in turn accelerate our company to succeed.

Our team at Covers works hard to inform and entertain our global audience by providing unparalleled insight into the competitive market of sports information.

Covers is rapidly growing and we are looking for the most engaged, innovative, and sharpest people to build the best digital team in the world!

Our Culture and Values

Fuel with Fun: Put the passion in everything we do, Bring the energy that is needed, Play hard and work hard

Deliver a Great Experience: Choose quality over speed, Think like a user, Plan for the next evolution

Tackle It Together: Choose we before I, Have compassion for self and others, We celebrate each other’s contributions

Build Your Game: Experiment with a curious mind, Push your boundaries, Learn from each other

The Role

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Product Designer who excels at enhancing user experiences, producing innovative product designs, and executing a successful product from start to finish. You will be creative with superb problem-solving skills to build products that create user experiences that are carefully designed, intuitive, and solve a defined problem.

You will work collaboratively with our Creative Director and talented product and IT engineering teams to develop superior digital products that truly focus on strengthening our UX and UI game!

What You’ll Do:

• Translate concepts into user journeys, wireframes, mockups, user stories, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Apply design thinking, user research, competitive analysis, and user personas to understand customer obstacles and envision product opportunities.
• Focus on a user-centered design approach to rapidly test designs.
• Collaborate with the Product Managers to determine core metrics and measure the impact on user experiences.
• Plan and lead design sprints for new product features.
• Incorporate user feedback throughout all phases of design by planning and conducting research, interviews and user testing, as well as amending designs following feedback.
• Prepare and organize documentation for design hand-off to IT Engineering team (including mockups, prototypes, exporting UI assets).
• Plan and conduct A/B tests and product experiments.
• Assist the UX and Design teams on developing and coordinating the long-term UX strategy and design direction.

What You’ll Bring:

• 3+ years of experience working in a product design or user experience design role.
• Senior level experience in multiple core design skills from prototyping to final design and everything in between.
• Experience with user research and user interface design.
• Experience designing responsive web and native mobile software applications.
• Proficient and effective use of industry standard UX and UI design platforms.
• Comfortable working in a self guided manner. You're able to proactively plan and scope your work in order to sequence your work with your team.
• Skilled at designing end-to-end solutions from discovery, rapid prototyping, usability testing, UI and interaction design.
• Ability to adapt to and learn design and prototyping software such as Figma.
• Experience working with front-end developers and an understanding of coding languages (HTML, CSS, Javascript/JQuery).
• Understanding of SEO principles.

What We Can Do For You!

• A competitive base salary package
• Individual and company performance based annual discretionary bonus
• Paid time off: 3 weeks’ vacation, public holidays, birthday, office is closed between Christmas Eve and New Years
• Health and dental benefits
• 3% company matched pension contributions
• Self-driven annual training budget so you can continue to grow professionally
• Flexible working hours and work from home options
• Company parties in the summer, winter, and a few fun events in between
• Engaging, fun, and casual company culture
• Dog friendly office
• Free parking

If you read this and instantly thought you were a great fit with the skills and passion we're looking for, then please submit your cover letter and resume to jobs@nssmp.com. We’d love to hear from you!