Title: UX Product Designer
Location: Remote (Must work EST hours)
Duration: 03+ Months

Summary:
The main function of a Product is ownership for researching and designing all user experiences for their dedicated business and product suite. A Product Designer owns and executes the design strategy and tactics necessary for their dedicated business and product suite. They are seen as a critical team member for identifying the user needs, iterating on solutions, and delivering the aligned-to experience of their product suite.

Requirements:
3-5 years of experience
Bachelor's degree required

Responsibilities:
Customer (or User) Focus

• Works collaboratively with stakeholders and their product team to help identify opportunities to better understand customer’s needs.
• Understands how his/her role impacts their product's KPIs and overall success metrics

Creative Problem Solving:

• Can work proactively with product, business stakeholders and technology to come up with solutions against the defined problems of their product suite.
• Can generate new solutions by analyzing product data for insights.
• Collaborates effectively and proposes solutions when faced with business, product or technology constraints
• Constantly seeks out and works to deliver shared understanding with their team and stakeholders.

Product Design:

• Defines user experience concepts and components for the product or project using artifacts such as user flows, site mapping, low fidelity sketches, wireframes, and interactive prototypes.
• Identifies and guides their product team on when generative and evaluative research exercises are needed throughout the project process.
• Strong attention to detail within their design process
• Adheres to established design patterns and proposes new patterns when needs are concretely identified.
• Can clearly articulate their proposed solution's design rationale with their stakeholders and project team members

Data Driven Analysis & Testing:

• Proactively uses data to establish key metrics for projects.
• Explores data from analytics packages, customer insight or other sources to understand the context of the problems to solve
• Identifies gaps where data is needed.
• Strongly emphasizes and advocates the need to test solutions with users.
• Iterates research methods based on testing and data analysis.

Technical Skills:

• Understands the nuances of designing for different users, processes (both internal and external), platforms and applications types while supporting OKRs and KPIs in the product lifecycle.
• Efficiently leverages design software for their solution process – Figma is the preferred tooling of this organization.
• Effective in communicating design needs with their engineering counterparts and providing clear, organized design work ready for development

Competencies:
Personal Capability

• Practices Self-Development
• Continually develops depth and breadth in key competencies
• Takes concrete actions relating to feedback to improve performance
• Actively seeks feedback from others
• Understands own strengths and weaknesses and looks for opportunities to build on both

Solves Problems and Analyzes Issues

• Is able to ask effective questions and collect facts from multiple sources in order to solve problems
• Is able to effectively identify and analyze problems and propose solutions
• Effectively manages day-to-day issues and problems without intervention

Innovates

• “Brainstorms“ with others to look for different approaches to current process and tasks
• Looks for opportunities to develop new ideas or thinking within own role
• Experiments with new ideas as part of role

Interpersonal Skills

• Communicates Powerfully and Prolifically
• Demonstrates effective conversational skills, including active listening and questioning
• Shares information relevant to own role
• Participates in team presentations

Collaboration and Teamwork

• Builds highly communicative, positive relationships with product managers, Business Analysts, Technology teams, and business stakeholders• Seeks team members’ input and expertise; facilitates open and interactive discussion of matters affecting the team
• Helps team members resolve conflict within the project process and identify opportunities
• Identifies and removes barriers to team performance
• Identifies ways for further collaboration across teams

Builds Relationships

• Establishes rapport with others on the team and across teams
• Works effectively with others to get work done
• Treats all individuals with respect
• Handles difficult situations, minimizing conflict

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 70.00/hr.