Lead Product Designer

Lead Product Designer – Remote

Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions to many of the world’s top-recognized brands and companies, is actively seeking a Lead Product Designer to join our People Assurance team Remotely. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow a versatile career in Product Design.

Intertek's People Assurance teams empower your workforce to identify and close operational gaps and mitigate risk by assuring smart actions across your organization. Intertek Alchemy provides frontline worker training solutions for processors, manufacturers, packagers, and distributors of all sizes. Intertek Catalyst inspires and engages workforces with highly creative, custom-branded, asset protection communication programs tailor-made strategic solutions designed to leverage our clients' company brand, values, and objectives to optimize the culture of their people. Intertek Wisetail provides a custom branded training and communication platform built to engage today’s workforce with a complete learning management system, giving customers the tools to grow their passionate workforce. Intertek is continually innovating and evolving to reduce risk for consumers, brands and organizations in every sector and industry around the world. We go beyond Testing, Inspection and Certification of products: we are a Total Quality Assurance Provider to industries worldwide. Our Purpose: Bringing quality, safety, and sustainability to life.

What are we looking for?

The Lead Product Designer is responsible for working closely with the Head of Design, Product, Engineering and other designers, you will design for frontline employees, managers and administrators. Initial priorities may include Wisetail coverage, with ongoing ownership transitioning to the Senior UX Designer through an agreed handoff. Convergence is the long-term focus of this role.

Shift/Schedule: Monday- Friday; core business hours

Salary & Benefits Information

The base wage or salary range for this position is $160,000. Individual compensation packages are based on a variety of factors unique to each candidate including skill set, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons.

In addition to competitive compensation packages, when working with Intertek you can expect benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k) with company match, generous vacation / sick time (PTO), tuition reimbursement and more.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the design direction for agreed Convergence product areas. Explore alternatives, make clear recommendations and connect customer needs, business priorities and technical constraints to the experience.

• Create polished interfaces and intuitive interactions with strong hierarchy, typography, layout and attention to detail. Make complex learning and administration tools feel coherent and easy to use.

• Use sketches, wireframes and interactive prototypes to explore ideas, explain behavior and test decisions. Carry promising concepts through to detailed designs that engineers can implement.

• Apply strong UX thinking to journeys, navigation and task flows. Resolve permissions, dependencies and relevant loading, empty, error and recovery states, partnering with UX and research colleagues for deeper investigation.

• Build new alongside existing design systems to develop reusable components and interaction patterns. Help establish a consistent, accessible experience across connected products and responsive interfaces.

• Work with Product and research partners to understand customer workflows and test important assumptions. Use usability findings and product evidence to improve designs throughout delivery.

• Partner closely with engineers to work within the existing platform and integration constraints. Document behavior, resolve implementation questions and review the built experience for usability, accessibility and visual quality.

• Lead constructive design reviews and mentor other designers through hands-on feedback. Coordinate with Wisetail, Alchemy and contractor designers to keep ownership, priorities and shared patterns clear.

Minimum Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience leading design for complex digital products, taking work from ambiguous problems through implementation and iteration with substantial ownership of the resulting experience.

• Excellent interaction and visual design skills, with a portfolio showing polished, usable interfaces and thoughtful decisions about hierarchy, layout, typography and behavior.

• Strong UX judgment and the ability to independently work through complex user flows, information architecture and navigation. You know when to seek deeper research or specialist input.

• Expert proficiency in Figma and strong prototyping skills. You can move between early exploration, detailed interaction design and clear implementation specifications.

• Experience using and evolving design systems, designing accessible interfaces and maintaining consistency across responsive web or connected product experiences.

• Technical fluency and experience collaborating with engineers on feasibility, data, permissions and integration constraints. You can adapt a design without losing the intent of the experience.

• Strong product judgment, clear communication and the ability to explain tradeoffs, prioritize with partners and mentor colleagues as an individual contributor.

Preferred Requirements & Qualifications:

• Enterprise software, learning platforms, workforce tools or products used in manufacturing and frontline environments.

• Complex administration, content workflows, reporting, shared devices or customer transitions between established products.

• Mobile design, interaction motion or coded prototyping. Production coding is not required.

Intertek: Total Quality. Assured.

Intertek is a world leader in the Quality Assurance market, with a proven, high-quality business model and a global network of customer-focused operations and highly engaged subject matter experts. With passion, pace, and precision we work to exceed our customers’ expectations, while engaging with our employees to be 10X in their performance and professional growth.

Intertek is a drug-free workplace. As a condition of employment, certain positions may be required to pass a pre-employment drug test based on the type of work that will be performed.

We Value Diversity

Intertek’s network of phenomenal people are our greatest assets, and the diversity they bring fuels our success. Intertek is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that values inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

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