Senior Product Designer

Job Description

Job Description

Life.Church wants to make a lasting difference in your life, in our community, and in the world. Our mission is to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ. That's how we’re able to make a difference, and it's the driving force behind everything we do.

The Senior Product Designer is primarily responsible for delivering thoughtful and thorough design solutions that turn into functional, intuitive, and visually appealing digital experiences that lead people toward the next steps in their relationship with Christ. The Senior Product Designer is responsible for using research and data to seek understanding in highly complex matters and communicating those learnings into clear and actionable solutions. This role delivers technical design prototypes to the engineering team for implementation, informed by user research and testing and approved by key stakeholders.

The Senior Product Designer delivers design concepts and solutions that equip teams and ministries to further Life.Church’s mission and reach people for Christ.

Comprehend, Research, and Explore

• Collaborate with product team and stakeholders to understand and visualize the opportunity space, jobs to be done, and problems to solve.
• Partner in ownership in maintaining, sustaining, and growing product teams’ continuous discovery pipeline.
• Lead user research efforts on a regular frequency by recruiting testers, creating effective research materials, and improve the processes and systems to make research efforts efficient and effective.
• Analyze user research and data to uncover insights, shape opportunities, understanding, solutions, and support decision-making.
• Prototype and test assumptions with product team, stakeholders, and users.
• Visualize data, insights, learnings, and ideas to improve alignment and communication.
• Present design concepts and solutions to Product Management, engineering, and stakeholders for collaboration.

Ideate, Prototype, Test, Design, and Release New Product Solution

• Utilize research to inform and understand new concepts for key product areas clearly and actionable.
• Translate research findings into design concepts and user experience flows through wireframing and sketching and then into higher fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes.
• Work closely with product management and engineering teams to facilitate various activities.
• Deliver excellent designs, flows, and assets across all platforms to engineering for implementation that are consistent with our brand’s design system with considering the uniqueness and constraints of each platform.
• Partner with product management and engineering teams to test solutions, iterate and work towards achieving the current product outcome.
• Release solutions into production with the product team and monitor results ensuring future solutions don’t adversely affect existing features.
• Manage Life.Church brand standards, style guides, and other applicable brand components.
• Collaborate and lead effectively to help product team deliver on product outcomes.

Support Product Team

• Champion risk area of usability for Product team.
• Contribute to improving the internal processes and systems to improve overall team efficiency and effectiveness.
• Continual learning of new tools, skills, and techniques to keep up with the innovation of the platforms and industry.
• Share learnings and teachings with other Product Designers or the team to grow collectively.
• Contribute to maintaining, sustaining, and growing Product team practices and processes along with design systems.
• Support additional leadership opportunities as the team grows and changes.
• Partner in support of the product team’s products.

• Knowledge of the technical constraints of web and mobile development to inform and innovate design solutions.
• Outstanding listening skills and the ability to take what was learned and create a vision to execute effectively.
• Proficiency in current and relevant design, testing, and prototyping tools.
• Exemplify a high level of user focus.
• Effective at process and organizational management to coordinate, structure, and provide vision to projects.
• Ability to self-motivate, make independent decisions, and solve problems with innovation.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills to clearly explain complicated processes and foster partnerships.
• Effective at multi-tasking and time management to meet strict deadlines while remaining flexible and open to change.
• Strong leadership skills and understanding of developing and guiding others.
• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 3+ years in human interaction sociology, psychology, interaction/visual design, or equivalent.
• Portfolio of previous related work experience.

• Paid parental leave, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Generous employer-paid leave for the use of vacation, sick time, and other qualifying reasons. 
• Innovative and comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance that provides team members with useful resources and savings to navigate their holistic health. 
• Life insurance policy provided for all staff members at 2x annual salary at no cost. Additional life insurance coverage is available to purchase. 
• Short-Term and Long-Term disability is covered at 100% for full-time qualified staff members.
• Comprehensive wellness and mental health benefits allow staff to proactively invest in their physical and emotional health.
• Generous 401(k) retirement plan allowing a team member to have up to 12.5% (including employee contribution, employer match, and employer discretionary contribution) contributed into their account in their first year. It doesn’t stop there—the more years on staff, the greater the investment! 
• $160 annually in development dollars for team members to invest in their professional growth. 
• Casual dress and work environment.
• And much more!

At Life.Church, every staff member, and intern is a minister and is expected to engage in the church's ministry fully. We consider ministry readiness and an individual’s capacity to represent Life.Church’s beliefs as a minister during the selection process for all staff and intern positions. An essential function within every position held by a staff member or intern at Life.Church is to uphold and represent the beliefs of Life.Church. Learn more about what we believe at Life.Church. 

While we unite around our mission, we know unity doesn’t mean uniformity. Our calling is too great, and our mission is too important not to be intentional about strengthening our team through diversity. We know that diverse perspectives in race, ethnicity, background, age, and gender are essential to reaching the world for Christ. To learn more about how we strengthen our team through diversity, visit our careers page. 

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