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OpenArc

Senior Product Designer

OpenArc, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, us, 15289


OpenArc - Empowering Your Career. As a leading IT staffing firm, we are dedicated to connecting talented professionals with your ideal opportunities. We are currently seeking a qualified Senior Product Designer to join our client's organization and contribute to their ongoing success.Job summaryWe are looking for a highly experienced Senior Product Designer to continue growing our Design team and help shape the future of the Ark. You should be engineering-oriented, extremely proficient in UI standards and patterns, and above all else a critical thinker and problem solver who can take ownership over feature strategy and development. A strong candidate can not only convert ambiguous objectives into empowering and enjoyable experiences but also help facilitate all parts of the process, including initial ideation, product scoping, low-fidelity prototyping, interaction design, and client engagement.Responsibilities:Collaborate with product managers, data analysts, and go-to-market teams to understand user needs and translate them into product features, concepts, workflows, and user experiences.Collaborate with the product managers, engineers, data scientists, and implementation specialists in your IPT to ideate, define, develop, implement, and validate solutions for the ArkDesign and document user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes that optimize data visualization and facilitate data exploration, and that fully align with product requirements documentation.Collaborate directly with integrated product teams, including engineering and data science, to support the implementation of UI designs, engage in productive cost-benefit discussions to assess potential deviations from designs, and support future iteration and development against long-term objectives.Present and defend designs and key milestones to clients, peers, and executive-level stakeholdersContribute to the development and maintenance of an established design system and UI component libraryBecome an expert on Ark.ai itself, and the commercial and publicly-sourced data represented in it.Demonstrate strong leadership and communication skillsPut customers at the center of all ideation and developmentRequirements:Experience designing and shipping complex, intuitive, and successful web-based products - ideally with a data componentPortfolio with revenue-generating case studiesInterest in defense tech, analysis, and data visualizationMastery of Figma, Adobe CC, and general design techniquesAbility to leverage, stand up, and maintain component libraries designed for the webExperience working in an agile development process, while able to balance scope, speed, and qualityPrecise visual and interaction design skillsAbility to solve problems creatively, effectively, and at multiple fidelitiesAwareness of the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologiesCurrent possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship.Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment.At OpenArc, we prioritize your career success and strive to build exceptional technical teams for our clients. By understanding your experience and aspirations, we ensure to present you with rewarding and fulfilling opportunities.As an employee of OpenArc and our clients, you will be eligible to participate in a comprehensive benefits package.OpenArc is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.