Product Designer (Contract Role)

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 branding. They develop best-in-class experiences for Toyota’s digital products. Creating digital products requires intense collaboration, internally and with our clients. You’ll work directly with partners 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 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 interaction, and support 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) with refined organization and file management. Maintain Consistency: Contribute to the UX pattern library and maintain understanding of component design best practices. VD Responsibilities: Deliver Creative Solutions: Shape requirements, articulate user needs, and translate them into concepts and elegant interface designs. Think Strategically: Provide insights that connect 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: Ingest a client’s business problems, propose innovative design solutions, and execute pixel-perfect designs. Follow Tech Innovation and Trends: Stay ahead of industry best practices and new design tech to keep innovating the brand. Execute Flawlessly: Maintain the VIS design system quality within dev-ready design files, prototypes, and presentations. Maintain Consistency: Contribute to the visual design pattern library for use across digital channels and understand 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, with the ability to tell a narrative across formats. Highly organized and detail-oriented with a track record of meeting deadlines in a fast-paced, high-volume environment. Experience working in an agile or highly-iterative, collaborative environment where teams 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 deliverables adhering to component standards and best practices delivered on time and clearly communicated to stakeholders. Effective collaboration with internal teams, external stakeholders, firms, brands and vendors; provide problem definition, strategic goals and solutions. Problem Solving: Understand client business goals and deliver solutions at the appropriate level of fidelity to gain consensus and push for the best user experience. Process Engagement: Break solutions into epics and user stories for agile sprints; estimate hours and manage time within the sprint; write, edit and review user stories. Creative Brainstorming: Sketch ideas, participate in brainstorms, breakout wireframes, landscape analysis, audits, test plans, and annotations. Support the Design System: Support the building of reusable components in our shared design library. VD Deliverables: Smooth handoff, development-ready files and annotations, prototypes, presentations, and other deliverables adhering to component and style guide standards delivered on time and clearly communicated to stakeholders. Effective collaboration with internal teams, external stakeholders, firms, brands and vendors; provide problem definition, strategic goals and solutions. Problem Solving: Understand client business goals and deliver solutions at the appropriate level of fidelity to gain consensus and balance user needs with business priorities. Process Engagement: Break solutions into epics and user stories for agile sprints; estimate hours and manage time within the sprint; write, edit and review user stories. Creative Brainstorming: Sketch ideas, participate in brainstorms, breakout wireframes, landscape analysis, audits, test plans, and annotations. Development of a Design System: Support the building of reusable components in our shared digital design library. Skills You Will Gain How to think through problems strategically and develop solutions at scale. Understanding of design for enterprise platforms and design patterns across various use cases. Mastery of tools like Figma, Sketch, InVision, Principle, Zeplin, and effective file/folder organization. Effective thought organization and practice in presenting design thinking to stakeholders and leadership. Deep understanding of design systems and component design best practices; consistent application across projects. Ability to guide other designers in creative thinking and shared recommendations. How You Grow Start with Why. You will understand the problem first before defining solutions, ask questions, and explore challenges from many angles to find creative solutions. You are curious and motivated by the process. You seek thoughtful solutions and improvements to internal processes. Master Creative Perfection. We aim for quality and consistency in the Toyota brand digital execution. Think outside the box. We love ideas that push creative boundaries and challenge the status quo when appropriate. Be a team player. Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to shape solutions with designers, strategists, analysts, product owners and content creators. Be a strong communicator. Demonstrate strong thought organization and communication to push ideas forward. Consistent proven delivery. Deliver polished design thinking on time and to team standards, actively engaging in ceremonies. Additional information Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” reflects our commitment to belonging, inclusion, and equitable experiences for all talent. We offer robust benefits, including medical, dental, vision, disability, 401K, parental and family care leave, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off. If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process, please contact View email address on click.appcast.io. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Compensation Range: USD $73,150.00 - USD $107,744.00 annually. The company may adjust this range; compensation is based on skills and experience. The posting deadline is 8/3/2026. #J-18808-Ljbffr Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V