Lead Product Designer

Kettle is a team of passionate creatives focused on delivering great products. They are looking for a Lead Interaction Designer to shepherd the product vision, design new features, and enhance existing ones while establishing scalable UX/UI patterns across platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Shepherd the product vision
• Design new features
• Enhance existing features
• Establish scalable UX/UI patterns across platforms
• Own distinct workstreams as part of the larger account
• Partner with other designers
• Work directly with clients to solve their design challenges
• Design creative product experiences from initial concepting through detailed design and collaboration with development
• Deliver on multiple aspects of design, including visual design, UI, and UX
• Produce deliverables such as high-fidelity prototypes, production-ready designs, annotations, design systems, wireframes, and other deliverables
• Solve complex experience challenges while delivering beautiful, usable interfaces
• Work independently on projects with the guidance of your design director
• Lead distinct workstreams within your design pod
• Partner with teammates of different disciplines including product management, production, and development
• Work on a client-facing embedded team
• Build strong client relationships with a solid understanding of their business needs, goals, and how those intersect with the consumer’s experience
• Adapt to different working styles and processes
• Embrace challenges and proactively ideate with fellow teammates and clients

Requirements:

• Interaction or product design experience in agency or related environments designing iOS native applications and websites
• Experience delivering user-focused solutions in high-complexity categories (financial services, telco, consumer tech, etc.)
• Experience leading workstreams (with the support of Directors), giving direction to others, and making decisions based on collective input and feedback
• A clear communication style, with the ability to present design work internally and to senior level clients
• Experience working in agile product design/development models
• Experience working with AI in your design process, either through side projects or client work
• Experience with enterprise-scale design systems
• Design creative product experiences from initial concepting through detailed design and collaboration with development
• Deliver on multiple aspects of design, including visual design, UI, and UX, producing deliverables such as high-fidelity prototypes, production-ready designs, annotations, design systems, wireframes, and other deliverables
• Solve complex experience challenges while delivering beautiful, usable interfaces
• Work independently on projects with the guidance of your design director, leading distinct workstreams within your design pod
• Partner with teammates of different disciplines including product management, production, and development
• Work on a client-facing embedded team, building strong client relationships with a solid understanding of their business needs, goals, and how those intersect with the consumer's experience
• Adapt to different working styles and processes, from data-driven optimization to blue sky visioning
• Embrace challenges and proactively ideate with fellow teammates and clients