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About this Role
Design Pickle is looking for an experienced Product Designer to join our team and help shape the product experience for our customers and global network of creatives. The ideal candidate will have a strong consumer and business product background and can maintain balance in a two-sided marketplace ecosystem. Given our vision, to be the best creative enablement platform in the world, and the nature of our products, this role requires entrepreneurial drive and thinking, an analytical and data-led approach to problem-solving, and dedication to make creative workflows effortless for everyone.
If you have ever wanted to contribute significantly and help shape the trajectory of a growing startup-like business, this role is for you!
Reports to: Lead Senior Product Manager
On a daily basis, works closely with the Product team and frequently collaborates with Engineering, Product Management, Global Operations and Marketing.
Location: Design Pickle is a fully remote company with a Company Hub in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Who We Are Looking For
First, Design Pickle is anything but typical. We’re a group of hard-working, creativity-loving individuals from around the world.
Do we love pickles, too? Most of us! But don’t stress if pickles aren’t your thing. It’s not a deal-breaker. We do look for a passion and interest in something, though, because our employees’ uniqueness is what helped make us the great company we are today.
Specific to your role, we’re looking for individuals who have…
4+ years of experience working collaboratively with product, engineering, data science, and product marketing teams.
Expert in best practices in product design, design, and information architecture across responsive web, iOS, and Android.
Understanding of how to use data analytics, user testing, and research to inform and validate design decisions and focus on constant improvement.
Technical acumen and expertise; an understanding of designing, prototyping, building, delivering, and maintaining applications and services for high availability, resiliency, and performance in a dynamic environment.
Understanding the technical side of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), cross-functional dependencies such as front end/back end, design paradigms (e.g. MVVM / MVC), and so on.
Visual and interactive software design experience.
Experience working in an Agile development environment.
Bonus Pickle Points:
Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Product Development, Computer Science, Human Center/Computer Design (HCI), or in a related field.
Experience in technology-enabled services.
Experience with Figma, Miro, Jira/Confluence, Pendo, Productboard, Zeroheight.
Experience contributing to and driving a software platform design system.
Experience working with remote teams and stakeholders.
Experience building and taking product designs from 0-1.
Key Objectives and Responsibilities
Demonstrate your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user-facing technologies to create prototypes that identify the best product experiences, launch innovative features, and enable efficient, high-quality execution.
Build new features by designing, implementing, maintaining, and evolving user interface systems and features.
Challenge the status quo to find opportunities to improve user experiences through the products we offer.
Be a self-starter / problem-solver, with strong skills in design and communication.
Collaborate efficiently and asynchronously with teams across different time zones around the world.
Bring our creative platform to life through clickable, realistic prototypes and imagining future state experiences, including demos, and high-fidelity prototypes.
Make things tangible in our highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment, where we concept test early/often, and tirelessly push for the best.
Bring your creative and technical expertise to be a bridge between design and engineering and utilize your hands-on skills to develop the design intent through clickable, realistic prototyping and iterative refinement, all the way from concept to completion.
Turn creative operations and customer insights into transformative experiences and design patterns.
Collaborate with a cross functional team of Product, Engineering, Customer Success, etc. to iterate on the next iteration and future iterations simultaneously.
Present/storytell to stakeholders and users about how your design can drive impact to the business’s KPIs and outcomes.
Identify and track key metrics that measure the success of our experiences.
Partner closely with designers, product managers, engineers, data scientists, sales, marketing, and research to deliver innovative, high quality customer and creative experiences via prototypes.
Oversee multiple projects and scale design resources accordingly, ensuring deadlines are met and team members are set up for success by setting clear and measurable goals.
Work cross functionally to evolve our design system with the goal of accessible, excellent and efficient design at scale.
Drive best practices in process and methodologies to deliver against business needs for our product portfolio - research, brainstorming, design/innovation sprints and iterative design, including discovery and usability testing from low to high fidelity. This also includes staying on top of the latest insights and design practices across consumer and enterprise software, working collaboratively with teams on robust and responsive B2B/B2C experiences.
Introduce and evolve design thinking methods and ways of working that consistently raise the bar on quality and execution of design.
The compensation range for this position is $105,000 to $120,000 annually. The actual salary offer made to a candidate will be made with mindful consideration of a wide range of factors. These factors include but are not limited to skills, qualifications, education/knowledge, experience, and alignment with market data for a given location within the US. In addition to base salary, some positions may be eligible for additional compensation such as bonuses or commissions. This salary data is for our US-based positions only.