This position reports to the Director of Product Design and your key responsibilities include:
- This role will be a "maker” who works with existing team members to get us off the ground. You'll craft quality, straightforward solutions that are inclusive, scalable, and useful to a broad set of teams. You'll work with developers to streamline the process that moves static design deliverables into code.
- Employ your great strengths in storytelling to present your vision and product design rationale in a compelling, convincing manner to the wider team.
- Build influence across the organization to shape the future of our shared design language and make sure our products express our brand.
- Strong design aesthetic that brings together brand expressions and systems thinking. You practice universal design and believe in inclusion.
- Create an inventory of common patterns and components; identify opportunities to simplify experiences, such as through merging similar elements.
- Flesh out comprehensive documentation of system principles and guidelines and build Figma libraries for system resources.
- Train designers and partners on the design system.
- Experience facilitating Design Thinkingin your cross-functional teams.
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to motive teams and partners.
- Find joy in leading by doing. You inspire, coach, and contribute to our team culture.
- A self-starter mindset who is well organized and always looking to improve things.
What we are searching for
Qualifications:
Education/Experience:
10+ years relevant professional experience required, BS/BA degree required, Graduate studies preferred
Communication Skills:
Ability to communicate concepts in a clear and compelling way to audiences of all levels of understanding and levels of seniority
Design Specific Skills:
- 7+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: design system, user experience, information architecture, or visual design.
- Experience developing and growing an enterprise design system.
- A strong strategic mindset and a system thinking approach.
- Proven history of working within a user-centered design process.
- Strong analytical, prioritization, and negotiating skills.
- Advance in design and prototyping tools (eg. Figma)
- Skills such as illustration, photography, animation, data visualization, front-end programming are a plus!
Behavioral Competencies that client is looking for this role:
- Leadership
- Organized
- Assertiveness
- Meticulous
- Integrity & trust
- Managing & planning systems