Senior Product Designer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Work closely with product managers, user researchers, engineers, and data analysts from the start to end of a feature
• - Create high quality designs, interactions, and prototypes to explore ideas in service of the best solution for the project
• - Craft user research plans and work directly with our product operations analysts/user researchers to identify problems and validate solutions in user testing
• - Contribute to Wave’s design system and component library
• - Talk to customers and find solutions to their problems by thinking critically from their perspective
• - Communicate the reasoning behind your product decisions in review sessions
• - Prototype visual and UX concepts and iterate towards the right solution

Required Skills

• - Fluency in English
• - At least 8 years of end-to-end in-house experience, preferably with a consumer focus product design with mobile apps
• - Excellent visual and interaction design skills, with an eye at removing friction from flows
• - Attention to detail and high level of visual craft
• - Strong illustration and animation skills
• - Ability to deliver high-quality designs with speed and polish
• - Bias towards action
• - Experience with low and high-fidelity design & prototyping
• - Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• - Ability to think through complex interaction design as well as thinking about tradeoffs of each solution
• - Curiosity for understanding and unpacking customer behaviors and needs
• - Experience balancing business goals, customer needs, and technical tradeoffs

Benefits

• - Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions
• - 6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
• - Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays
• - $10,000 annual charitable donation matching