Product Designer (Mid or Senior)

Joining the Team

You will work on a single cross-disciplinary product development team—engineers, designers, and product managers—working full-time, side-by-side with one of our clients. Together, you will learn the problems they want to solve, get to know the people who are experiencing them, and design potential solutions. You will iteratively develop and release working software using established agile development practices like experiment-driven design, test-driven development, small and frequent releases, and continuous integration and deployment.

Your Role

As a Product Designer, you will work with the rest of your team to research, ideate, design, and refine features for digital products across a wide range of industries, for both mobile and web. You will balance tradeoffs between desirability, viability, and feasibility, while being a strong advocate for both users and those impacted by the software you are designing. You will work collaboratively and continuously, delivering incremental product design iteratively, while keeping an eye on the bigger picture as we help bring our clients' visions to life. You will lead interaction design and communication design on your team, bringing your experience and learning from the broader Carbon Five design community along the way.

Your typical week often includes the following:

• A hybrid in-office/WFH schedule (beginning in 2022)
• Facilitating collaborative design workshops
• Designing and creating prototypes
• Drafting flows & wireframes
• Illustrating user interfaces
• Collaborating with stakeholders
• Pairing with amazing engineers & product managers

About You

This job might be right for you if you:

• Have at least 2 years of experience designing digital products (or the equivalent)
• Prefer collaboration over working solo
• Take a collective approach to problem-solving and decision-making
• Enjoy being given goals and finding ways to achieve them
• Enjoy using your creativity and resourcefulness to tackle unexpected challenges
• Enjoy participating in all aspects of product development, including generating ideas, prototyping and building solutions, talking to users, testing outcomes, and integrating learnings into future work
• Want to learn new design processes, techniques, and tools
• Enjoy working across a broad range of industries and platforms

To be considered for this role, you will need:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A high degree of empathy for others
• A learning mindset and interest in learning how to work effectively on a self-organized product team
• A flexible approach to process and willingness to tailor to the needs of each project
• A history of positive influence on design & design culture at companies
• Full stack design experience: user research, testing, collaborative design exercises, wireframing, interaction design, prototyping, and visual design
• Experience working with and advocating for design to senior stakeholders and/or clients

You’ll receive additional consideration if you have:

• Experience consulting or working as a freelancer
• Experience as a member of a professional agile software development team
• Consistent involvement in the tech community (e.g., speaking at conferences and meetups, mentoring less experienced practitioners, leading or volunteering time to organizations committed to supporting underrepresented groups in our industry)
• A track record of self-directed, continuing education
• Experience with branding, including designing identities, selecting typography, defining color palettes, and creating brand guidelines
• Experience designing for both mobile-web applications as well as native iOS & Android apps
• In-depth experience conducting user research, collaborative ideation (e.g. Design Sprints), and/or user testing