Product Designer Job Description

Product designers create new products and improve existing ones.

Product Designer Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Product Designer to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Synthesize customer data into meaningful insights;
  • Represent user perspectives with integrity and prioritize their needs across each and every project;
  • Seek out new ways to help grow and shape our creative output and culture;
  • Present research and test findings to internal teams and key stakeholders;
  • Own design problems end to end, from initial conception through launch;
  • Contribute to the development of our design system; advocate consistent use of design standards across product experiences;
  • You will initiate product design with business and product strategy, collaborating with product and engineering team members;
  • Partner with product team to create compelling ideas and develop those ideas into clear design solutions across multiple platforms;
  • Develop new design concepts, frameworks and interaction models;
  • Designing wireframes, GUI, and low to high-fidelity mockups for responsive web applications;
  • Following style and brand guidelines;
  • Rapidly build early prototypes and wireframes to help test and validate ideas;
  • Active role in the full product lifecycle, from inception to implementation;
  • Create sketches, storyboards, prototypes, and design specs necessary to guide development of product experiences;
  • Drive kick-offs and other project critical meetings.

Requirements:

  • Familiarity with front-end mobile engineering;
  • Solid understanding of web, mobile web and native apps (iOS and Android);
  • Experience leading projects and process spanning insights, ideation and validation through to design implementation;
  • A strong design and systems thinking that enables you to craft intuitive, cohesive and elegant solutions to complex problems;
  • Ability to defend your work, but also take creative feedback and execute updates in a professional manner;
  • High proficiency with prototyping and visual design software, including Sketch;
  • Experience with Zeplin, InVision, JIRA and Confluence to work with product and QA teams;
  • Excellent collaboration skills;
  • Understanding of digital file formats and web standards;
  • Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into something useful and valuable for our partners and constituents;
  • Ability to absorb and apply constructive criticism from peers, clients, and users;
  • Experience in web development, email marketing, and social media;
  • Connected to the design community with a passion for design;
  • 2-5 years of work experience in product design for mobile apps and/or web;
  • A basic understanding of how the technology (Objective-C, Swift, Java, JS) impacts design decisions on mobile and web platforms.