Job Description
Russell Tobin & Associates is currently seeking a Lead Product Designer to work for our client in the specialty retail industry. Apply now for consideration!
Contract: 5 Months
Location: Remote within US
Pay Range: $65-75/hour DOE
Overview:
We are looking for an experienced, process-minded designer that can work independently and help set UX direction on cross-functional product teams. An ideal candidate for this contract excels in design thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and possesses a firm understanding of industry best practices in native mobile and mobile-first web experiences. They are organized, self-driven, and invested in mentoring and guiding the junior designers on their product teams. Previous experience in eCommerce / working in a Lead Product Designer capacity is a huge plus!
Responsibilities:
- Proficient in communicating direction, design principles, and design specifications
- Fosters a highly collaborative design process and is trusted by their team to talk through both scope and technical challenges and negotiate thoughtful outcomes.
- Takes a leadership role in cross-discipline meetings, bringing a design voice to the conversations and building trust between design teams and other disciplines.
- Creating experience maps, user scenarios, comps, and flows
- Designs user experiences from low-fidelity sketches to high-fidelity prototypes
- Creates rapid prototypes to validate design concepts
- Developing processes and approaches to solving design problems
- Uses known methods and anticipates problems to strategize design solutions that meet and exceed business objectives
- Presenting work to cross-functional teams and leadership
- Demonstrates experience executing design practices within Agile software development
- Collaborates with Project Owners and Business Analysts to build and maintain a product backlog
- Works closely with partners on the crafting of requirements and user stories.
- Understands and considers business goals into their design decisions/solutions.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years hands-on designing product experiences or general UX design
- Previous experience working on a cross-functional product team in an Agile environment
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- Experts in navigating and leveraging a heavily cross-functional environment
- 1+ years mentoring other designers
- Understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other front-end code frameworks
- Experience designing native mobile apps
- Experience in ecommerce
- Working knowledge of design research methodologies
Russell Tobin / Pride Global offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), a 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, identity theft protection, legal support, auto and home insurance, pet insurance, and employee discounts with some preferred vendors.
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