Lead Product Designer

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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