Job Summary:
The Product Designer is responsible for designing, modelling, prototyping, testing and defining product interfaces and interactions to deliver an exceptional user experience. This is a multifaceted role that involves working closely with user research teams, external design agencies, product management and members of the agile sprint teams

Purpose of the Job:

The Product Designer drives UX and UI design activities to make compelling user experiences for internal digital products.

Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:

• Advise and help guide user research (evaluative and generative) studies and observe and analyze end user behavior
• Contribute to ideation sessions by helping to sketch initial design ideas
• Perform market research to identify design models to consider for a given interaction
• Creation of web and mobile app prototypes and clickable wireframes used in user testing
• Oversee and aid in conducting testing designs with end-users (e.g., A/B testing, multivariate testing, etc)
• Produce detailed, pixel-perfect final specifications for product interface and interactions
• Identify product UX/UI inconsistencies across multiple products in a given suite
• Contribute to an interactive style guide to ensure clarity of the design principles and specifications that should be used by the agile sprint teams
• Work directly with the agile sprint teams to present and communicate design concepts and answer any related questions

Knowledge and Skills Requirements:

• A design portfolio that demonstrates strength in user experience and visual design of digital products
• Experience in the product development processes starting with user-research uncovering pain-points and opportunities to detailed UX/UI design specifications
• Ability to rapidly produce multiple design mock-ups
• Experience creating clickable prototypes
• Ability to structure and conduct user tests and interviews
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to receive and share constructive criticism with team members
• Degree in design, psychology, business, statistics, human-computer interaction (HCI), related field or equivalent experience
• Knowledge and experience conducting user research projects
• Strong, analytical problem solving and decision-making skills
• Excellent time management skills with ability to manage strict, frequent deadlines
• A natural tendency to take initiative and drive projects forward
• HTML and CSS knowledge including experience working with responsive web design frameworks such as Bootstrap
• Mobile app design experience
• Hands-on experience working with Sketch, Abstract, InVision and the Adobe Creative Cloud products
• Knowledge of javascript and React framework is a plus

Other Requirements:

• Travel may be required from time to time to complete assignments
• Flexibility in working hours to accommodate workload and multiple time zones as needed

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• 4+ years of experience in digital design, UX/UI development or a related field