Overview /
As a Lead Product Designer for the Numerated Platform, you will be responsible for enabling Numerated to realize our vision - from research to production. You will be the voice for design across the company and have the skills and desire to roll up your sleeves and get involved in the details of making great products. The Product Design Lead will communicate clearly and listen carefully as well as be involved in forming, understanding, and sharing the product strategy for Numerated. You'll engage and inspire designers, product teams, and developers to do their best work. You'll take responsibility for your work, celebrate your teams success, and have fun doing it.
Essential Responsibilities /
- Build relationships with key business partners and customers to uncover unmet needs, objectives, and motivations and translate those findings into relevant insights.
- Bring to life surprising and actionable insights that influence product strategy
- Use your design thinking skills to facilitate, extract, and gain consensus on the best product design ideas to build out our next generation platform
- Design and conduct user testing throughout development, drawing insights from results and keeping the users voice alive throughout the process
- Translate insights into artifacts, visual stories, sketches, drawings, low/high-fidelity wireframes, and prototypes
- Use effective communication and storytelling techniques to bring ideas to life, gain influence, buy-in, and adoption across a wide variety of teams and departments
- Evangelize and champion user research and user experience design to executive audiences and be a strong change agent across the organization
- Provide day-to-day design leadership throughout the Agile development process with engineering teams.
Education Requirements /
- Bachelors degree (BA/BS) in Anthropology, Psychology, Human Computer Interaction, or design related field required
Work Experience Requirements /
- 7+ years of professional hands-on experience (Enterprise or SaaS software strongly preferred)
- Leadership experience in UX, IXD, and IA
- Comfort facilitating design workshops
- Ability to thrive as a heads down individual contributor as well as a heads-up collaborator managing a team of other UI/UX designers
- Experience in designing and conducting user research and informing product design decisions with research outcomes
- Ability to wireframe and articulate design recommendations based on research outcomes
- Demonstrated understanding of various usability studies, A/B, multivariate testing, and other evaluation techniques
- Ability to juggle multiple product initiatives and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- High level of empathy; ability to relate to users from various perspectives and provide unbiased voice of customer feedback based on the research findings
- Self-motivated, execution-oriented, and ability to work autonomously
- A passion for observing user behavior and synthesizing insights into product design
- Excellent leadership, communication (storytelling, and visualization) skills
- Adept and nimble at learning new domains, technologies, and processes
- Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering Teams to deliver best-in-class products with a user-centric focus
- A lifelong learner, seeking the latest information both in design tools, methods, and product information
- A natural storyteller who can explain complex concepts in relatable ways to mixed audiences
- A background in product design, service design, or experience design, business transformation, information systems, or another related field
- A working knowledge of front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
