Product Designer

Company description At Saatchi we believe in creating ideas that can live anywhere. And we believe that when we work as a team, nothing is impossible. We strive to bring out the best in each other and in ourselves and expect applicants to understand the value of close collaboration. We also believe that creating transformational work requires initiative, an entrepreneurial spirit and a bold commitment to achieving measurable results and business success for the Clients we service. This role is in office in Los Angeles on a Hybrid work week of four days in office. Overview Product Designers at Saatchi see no boundary between form and function. They are highly strategic, detail-oriented, multi-skilled, and bring a deep understanding of user experience, user interface design, visual design, and even branding. Collectively, they bring these skills together to develop best-in‑class experiences for Toyota’s digital products. Creating digital products requires intense collaboration, internally, and with our clients. Our partners are hands‑on and you’ll work directly with them to define problems, develop solutions and prototypes, and bring ideas to market. You’ll also work closely with Product Managers, Strategists, and Developers to create original digital products and services that reignite industries and reshape companies. Our Product Designers are our experts in creative execution. They work alongside the Sr. Product Designers to develop and execute the creative vision while keeping the user and business needs front and center. Responsibilities UX Responsibilities Deliver Creative Solutions: Work with key stakeholders to determine requirements, articulate user needs, and translate those needs into concepts and elegant interface designs. Think Strategically: Develop creative solutions that connect the dots between strategic foundations, business goals, and user needs. Collaborate with Teams: Participate in internal conversations and interviews with key stakeholders to understand and execute business goals. Craft Powerful Experiences: Collaborate with Platform Creatives, external consultants, and creative partners to deliver meaningful experiences that resonate with audiences, inspire consumers to interact, and service business goals. Analyze the competition: Assess the competitive landscape while understanding patterns and trends. Execute Flawlessly: Produce wireframes, sitemaps, user flows, prototypes, decks, use cases, customer journeys and personas (in low and high fidelity) while incorporating refined organization and file management skills. Maintain Consistency: Contribute to the creation and evolution of our UX pattern library for use across digital channels. Maintain a fundamental understanding of component design best practices. VD Responsibilities Deliver Creative Solutions: Work with the team to shape determine requirements, articulate user needs, and translate those needs into concepts and elegant interface designs. Think Strategically: Work with UX designers to provide insights that shape creative solutions that connect the dots between strategic foundations, business goals, and user needs. Collaborate with Teams: Participate in internal conversations and interviews with key stakeholders to understand business goals. Develop Innovative Experiences: You are one part thinker, one part doer, equally capable of ingesting a client’s business problems, coming up with innovative design solutions and executing beautiful, pixel‑perfect designs. Follow Tech innovation and trends: Keep ahead of the curve in industry best practices as well as new design tech to help continue to innovate the brand. Execute Flawlessly: Maintain the quality and craft of the VIS designs system within dev‑ready design files, prototypes, and presentations while incorporating refined organization and file management skills. Maintain Consistency: Contribute to the creation and evolution of our visual design pattern library for use across digital channels. Maintain a fundamental understanding of component design best practices. Qualifications Recommended 3+ years of cumulative experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, or similar role. Demonstrated, pragmatic execution of projects within a large organization. Ability and desire to solve complex product design problems and the strategy skills to deliver best‑in‑class solutions. Demonstrated ability to synthesize and present findings and articulate design rationale. Exceptional written, verbal, and visual communications skills, and the ability to build a narrative across a range of formats. Highly organized and detail‑oriented with a track record of meeting short and long‑term deadlines in a fast‑paced, high‑volume environment. Experience working in an agile or highly‑iterative, collaborative environment where people share work daily. Strong understanding of industry trends and creative tools. Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Principle, Photoshop, After Effects, etc. Your Deliverables UX Deliverables Smooth Handoff: Development of wireframes, annotations, landscape analyses, test plans and other creative deliverables adhering to component standards and best practices delivered on time and clearly communicated to stakeholders. Effective collaboration: with internal teams and external stakeholders, firms, brands and vendors. Offer problem definition, strategic goals and solutions. Problem Solving: Understand client business goals and deliver solutions at the appropriate level of fidelity to gain consensus, communicate and execute the idea. Carefully balance the needs of the user with business priorities to continue to push solutions that offer the best experience for both. Process Engagement: Break solutions into epics and user stories to be developed through agile sprints. Estimate hours for stories and manage your time within the sprint. Write, edit and review user stories. Creative Brainstorming: Sketch ideas and participate in brainstorms or collaboration sessions. Breakout Wireframes, Landscape analysis, audit, test plans, and annotations. Support the Design System: Support the building of reusable components and other building blocks in our shared digital design library. VD Deliverables Smooth Handoff: Development of dev‑ready files and annotation, prototypes, presentations, and other creative deliverables adhering to component and style guide standards and best practices delivered on time and clearly communicated to stakeholders. Effective collaboration: with internal teams and external stakeholders, firms, brands and vendors. Offer problem definition, strategic goals and solutions. Problem Solving: Understand client business goals and deliver solutions at the appropriate level of fidelity to gain consensus, communicate and execute the idea. Carefully balance the needs of the user with business priorities to continue to push #J-18808-Ljbffr