Senior Product Designer 🔥
As a Senior Product Designer, you will have significant ownership of design objectives and strategy. This role will be responsible for discovering opportunities for product excellence and differentiation on our products. Combining an understanding of business opportunities with a deep empathy for the user, you’ll work on creating experiences that help customers invest in alternatives to improve their overall wealth. You’ll collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization to determine strategy, roadmaps and deliverables while also maintaining a lot of autonomy over your work.
What you'll do:
Product Strategy
Conceptualize and design for web (including mobile) and print
Contribute at a high level for design strategy and communicate the vision, roadmap, and goals for a business
Define short- and long-term design opportunities for the product.
Collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, Analytics and Business Development to define product solutions as well as business efficiencies
Partner with Product Managers to develop the strategy and rationale for product solutions
Partner closely with Engineering to ensure our implementation and user experience is of high-quality
Prioritize internal, cross-functional, and external design resource(s).
Create and iterate on solutions that are inspired by a deep empathy for our users
Identify key opportunities to meet and prioritize user and business needs
Use research and data to inform and implement solutions
Ideate new product features and improvements.
Work collaboratively to prioritize feature ideas.
Flesh out feature concepts.
UX Design
Develop strategic insights and strategies to guide UX development
Create high level user flows for complex products.
Design processes, features, and components that can be used
Understand business and technical needs
Works cross-functionally (in and outside of the product team) to create innovative features.
UI Design
Design processes, features, and components that can be used across products
Create UI components for product flows.
Contribute components to the Alto design system.
Work collaboratively with Engineering to ensure finished product meets design specifications.
Work in close collaboration with Design Leadership to grow the team as well as to inform and improve design processes
What we'd like to see on your resume:
6+ years professional experience, specifically as a Product Designer designing web-based products, with experience with UX and UI.
Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience.
Experience leading and launching end-to-end product / product features
Design Portfolio demonstrating strong UX and visual design solutions, with an emphasis on identifying and meaningfully solving true user problems.
Exceptional track record executing on product design strategy, mentoring designers, and partnering with cross functional team members.
Experience building world class product experiences, and streamlining workflows with continuous iteration and improvement.
What you bring to the table:
High proficiency in Figma
Familiarity with other UX/UI software for creating flows, prototypes
Ability to analyze and use data and research to inform decisions
Utilize understanding and analysis of quantitative data, qualitative user understanding, and knowledge of business capabilities to develop features and product experiments
Attention to detail
Humble — Not driven by personal opinions
Excellent verbal and communication skills
Excellent analytical skills to break down and solve complex problems
Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally
Design discovery (user research, competitive research)
Deep user empathy around complex/emotional categories
Foundational understanding of HTML and CSS.
Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
Ability to lead user experience design, including usability principles, user research methodology, testing techniques (A/B, Multi-Variant), design theory, and interaction design.
Willingness to roll up your sleeve and get things done.
Take smart risks and champion new ideas.
Passionate about contributing and maintaining design systems
Skills such as illustration, animation, data visualization, front-end programming, or copywriting a plus