Dechen Consulting
Product Designer
Dechen Consulting, Dearborn, MI, United States
Company Overview
Dechen Consulting Group (DCG) is a rapidly expanding, innovative IT Professional Services and Management Consulting company with a track record of more than twenty-five years in delivering skilled professionals to our clients across diverse sectors.
Job Opportunity
We are currently seeking a Product Designer for a W2 contract opportunity in Dearborn, MI. This role has the potential to extend over multiple years, with the chance to transition to a direct hire position with our client. We provide healthcare, vacation, relocation assistance, and visa sponsorship/transfer. This is a W2 position, not C2C. THIRD PARTIES NEED NOT APPLY. This role offers excellent prospects for career progression!
Position Description
Quality Analytics (OA) is a product group that develops on-premises and cloud analytic solutions. Our product line designers oversee a portfolio of product teams, identifying patterns and use cases across the portfolio to better serve their end users. They apply a design thinking mindset, user research skills, and business strategy to align teams around a human-centric roadmap. They collaborate closely with product owners, product managers, and fellow designers across their portfolio.
Responsibilities
Bachelor's degree
Education Preferred
Additional Information
This role is hybrid, which means the candidate must be located within a drivable distance to Dearborn, MI. Also, the candidate if selected might be asked to come into the office up to 2 or 3 days per week.
We are a people-focused company with a deep emphasis on family values and look forward to working with you.
Contact Manager: Anna Mastrogiovanni
Dechen Consulting Group (DCG) is a rapidly expanding, innovative IT Professional Services and Management Consulting company with a track record of more than twenty-five years in delivering skilled professionals to our clients across diverse sectors.
Job Opportunity
We are currently seeking a Product Designer for a W2 contract opportunity in Dearborn, MI. This role has the potential to extend over multiple years, with the chance to transition to a direct hire position with our client. We provide healthcare, vacation, relocation assistance, and visa sponsorship/transfer. This is a W2 position, not C2C. THIRD PARTIES NEED NOT APPLY. This role offers excellent prospects for career progression!
Position Description
Quality Analytics (OA) is a product group that develops on-premises and cloud analytic solutions. Our product line designers oversee a portfolio of product teams, identifying patterns and use cases across the portfolio to better serve their end users. They apply a design thinking mindset, user research skills, and business strategy to align teams around a human-centric roadmap. They collaborate closely with product owners, product managers, and fellow designers across their portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate and lead design thinking sessions with various technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Conduct generative user research such as contextual inquiry, ethnography, field research, user interviews, and stakeholder interviews.
- Transform user research into assets such as affinity walls, journey maps, empathy maps, storyboards, personas, etc.
- Justify your research strategy and insights to stakeholders (un)familiar with the UX discipline.
- Work as a collaborative team member with business partners, product managers, developers, and fellow designers.
- Provide mentoring, teaching, and leadership to fellow designers and team members.
- Evangelize UX within your team and across the department.
- User Research
- Wireframing/Mockups
- Prototyping
- Usability Testing
- Task Flow
- Information Architecture
- Peer Leadership
- Team Collaboration
- Project Management
- InVision
- Sketch
- Excel
- Word
- 3 years proven experience in the UX, product management, or a mixture of the two.
- 2 years of experience in user research.
- 2 years of experience in facilitating design thinking and ideation workshops.
- Passion for growing your skills, tackling challenging problems, and sharing your learnings with others.
- Research chops, strong leadership skills, and diversity of experience are all a plus!
- 3 years of relevant product management experience.
- Ability to build credibility and trust with team members and senior leaders.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
- Prior member of a Lean/Agile product team.
Bachelor's degree
Education Preferred
- Bachelor's or master's degree in human-computer interaction, human factors, psychology, communications, or equivalent.
Additional Information
This role is hybrid, which means the candidate must be located within a drivable distance to Dearborn, MI. Also, the candidate if selected might be asked to come into the office up to 2 or 3 days per week.
We are a people-focused company with a deep emphasis on family values and look forward to working with you.
Contact Manager: Anna Mastrogiovanni