Senior Product Designer

TEKsystems is a leading provider of business and technology services, and they are seeking a Senior Product Designer to create intuitive and elegant product design solutions. The role involves translating complex consumer and business needs into user-friendly experiences and collaborating with various teams to drive design and development processes.

Responsibilities:

• Create intuitive and elegant product design solutions that solve complex consumer problems and drive business results
• Communicate solutions to stakeholders and executives in a manner that simplifies complexity and generates excitement
• Participate in user experience research to understand consumer needs, opportunities and pain points to continually inform an iterative design and discovery process
• Collect and synthesize qualitative and quantitative research to inform and validate design decisions
• Collaborate and partner with Product Managers, Designers, Analysts and Developers throughout the discovery, design and development process
• Create visual artifacts to articulate, inform and validate ideas with consumers and stakeholders (prototypes, wireframes, sketches, journey maps, personas, etc.)
• Create detailed design deliverables utilizing and contributing to the design language system and pattern library
• Stay current on all the tools, principles and practices in product design, prototyping and development, and drive for continuous improvement
• Facilitate meetings and brainstorming sessions that are organized and productive
• Mentor and train junior members of the design team on industry and best practices
• Advocate for high standards of excellence in providing delightful and rewarding user experiences, and proactively support the team in achieving them

Requirements:

• Proven track record devising and designing high-quality consumer products (web or mobile) in collaboration with product management and engineering partners
• Passion for technology and design, and the drive to stay on top of industry trends and best practices
• Persuasive communicator – able to explain complex or intangible concepts to stakeholders at all levels
• Good listener – weighs input from multiple perspectives when forming opinions and recommendations
• Collaborative and team oriented work approach
• Solid understanding of user-centered design processes and ability to balance customer needs with business goals and metrics in developing solutions
• Experience with brainstorming techniques and getting consensus among a large, diverse group of stakeholders
• Experience leveraging user research and the ability to clearly articulate your design decisions and what problems they're solving
• Strong Product Design principles and deliverables, including rapid prototyping, journey maps, detailed flows, and pattern libraries etc
• Ability to convert ideas quickly into design artifacts
• Ability to perform design critiques and supply objective feedback to others
• Strong critical thinking and analysis skills
• Able to train and mentor others in design methodologies and best practices
• Experience designing and prototyping native app and web solutions for a range of screen sizes/resolutions: mobile, tablet, desktop, etc
• Experience with Agile development processes
• Responsive/adaptive design experience a plus
• E-commerce experience a plus