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Dechen Consulting

Product Designer Job at Dechen Consulting in Dearborn

Dechen Consulting, Dearborn, MI, United States, 48120

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About Dechen Consulting Group (DCG)

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.

Opportunity Overview

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!

Responsibilities
  • Design lean, iterative, and development-ready solutions that can scale for the future, while understanding current technology constraints.
  • Think deeply about the user experience balanced with business goals to inform designs.
  • Lead the product team (Product Owner, Project Manager, Software Engineers) through the user-centered design process with collaborative workshops for discovery and ideation.
  • Apply user research insights to drive product design and strategy, and help your team understand why and how to build better experiences.
  • Plan and execute user research in collaboration with internal stakeholders, and share findings broadly across the organization.
Required Skills
  • Craft beautiful and usable designs for digital products by applying your domain expertise, deep research findings, and collaborating with peers across the product organization.
  • Conduct user research and experiments from planning to synthesis.
  • Play an active role in advocating for a Human-Centered Design process and creating a collaborative environment.
  • Engage and inspire the product organization about our customers' experiences through powerful storytelling of the human-centered design process, research insights, and customer journeys.
  • Lead as a 'player/coach' - owning UX design and mentoring less experienced designers.
Preferred Skills
  • Demonstrable experience in UX design and research in all phases across a variety of projects and mediums.
  • Deep expertise in Interaction & Visual Design, Information Architecture, UX Writing, and UX Research.
  • Advanced knowledge of Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, and/or other design and prototyping software.
  • Visualize and test concepts at varying levels of fidelity - napkin sketches, sacrificial concepts, wireframes, interactive & functional prototypes, development-ready assets.
  • Experience synthesizing research findings into actionable insights that inform strategic decisions and design solutions.
Required Experience
  • 4 years of experience as a UX/Interaction/Product Designer working across a breadth of digital media.
  • 2 years of experience leading the human-centered design process with highly collaborative, multidisciplinary teams.
Preferred Experience
  • Familiarity with code and closely working with development teams.
Required Education
  • Bachelor's degree in user experience, human-computer interaction, interaction design, service design, graphic design, or digital design-related degree.
Preferred Education
  • Master's in user experience, human-computer interaction, interaction design, service design, graphic design, or digital design-related degree.
  • Additional Bachelor's in sociology, anthropology, psychology, or related degree.
  • 6 years of experience as a UX or Interaction Designer.

Additional Information

POSITION IS HYBRID

We Are a People-Focused Company with a deep emphasis on family values and look forward to working with you.

Contact Manager: Anna Mastrogiovanni