Product Designer Job at Smart IT Frame LLC in Austin

Role: Product Designer

Location: Austin. TX (Hybrid)

Duration: Long term

Must Have Skills:

Skill 1 – Yrs of Exp – 6-9 Years Experience as Product Designer

Skill 2 – Yrs of Exp – Creates complex journey maps, storyboards, and service blueprints

Skill 3 – Yrs of Exp – Sketch, Figma

Skill 4 – Yrs of Exp - Design system subject matter expert (SME

Good To have Skills –

Skill 1 – Yrs of Exp – Experienced design leader, Cross-functional partner, Detail-oriented in craft and process

Skill 2 – Yrs of Exp – Experienced design collaborator, Detail-oriented in craft and process, Cross-functional role model

JD:

• 6-9 Years Experience as Product Designer
• Ability to perform a range of complex and ambiguous design tasks
• Wide subject matter expertise on multiple features, workflows, and new areas of discovery for a project’s domain, related domains, or across projects
• Contributes to design goals that impact projects or initiatives, across-teams and stakeholders
• Helps define requirements and works closely with product and engineering counterparts
• Makes smart trade-offs for design decisions that balance quality, speed of delivery, and learning
• Refines and defines new design and development hand off processes and documentation
• Facilitates discussions within a multidisciplinary team, with potentially difficult dynamics
• Engages in the practices and processes for healthy, productive collaboration that drives outcomes Adapt design approaches as needed
• Interaction and visual design craft skills and information architecture
• Works on end-to-end experiences
• Organizes complex systems and experiences through user-centered information architecture
• Designs simple and elegant interfaces for complex systems or multiple platforms
• Designs with a high level of polish
• Creates design principles
• Creates complex prototypes
• Consistently contributes to visual frameworks or creates new frameworks and style guides
• Communicates rationalization using heuristics, psychology, influence tactics
• Creates complex journey maps, storyboards, and service blueprints
• Proactively seek to drive change
• Strong interaction and visual design craft skills
• Strong skills in information architecture
• Design Thinking or collaboration frameworks
• Expertise in human interface guidelines, standards, and best practices as they apply to platforms.
• Experience in a digital design-related disciplines: Strategic Design Management, Human-Computer Interaction, Product Design, Service Design, New Media Design, Storytelling, and Universal design
• Experience in executing collaboratively with engineering, design, and user research teams and business stakeholders
• Good knowledge of User research methodologies including Stakeholder Interviews, Contextual Enquiry, Co-creation workshops, Customer Journey Mapping, Design Sprints etc.
• Experience with wireframing, Low/Hi-Fidelity interactive mock-ps rapid prototyping, visual narratives & iterative design methodologies.
• Good knowledge of prototyping tool such as Sketch, Adobe XD, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Axure, Invision etc.
• Experience in User Validation and Evaluation techniques including Heuristic Evaluation, Usability / Accessibility Testing, Eye Tracking etc.
• Experience in building Design Language Systems for use within product design and technology teams
• A genuine eagerness to work with mentor, encourage and learn from a diverse and talented team