NOTE: THIS POSITION IS TO JOIN AS W2 ONLY.
Lead UX/Product Designer
Location: Burbank, CA (Hybrid-Tues-Thurs in-office)
Duration: 12Months
Project
Our team builds user-centric B2B and POC digital products for a high-profile media company. We work in a deeply collaborative environment with designers working across multiple projects and business units. Your role, as a Lead Product Designer, is a very rewarding position with the opportunity to create and improve the digital products that run our company; from internal operations to external facing sites that encompass brands such as DC Comics and Studio Tours. You will also have great networking opportunities with multiple teams cross-functionally.
Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role
UX/UI Design:
- Translate complex business needs and user research insights into wireframes, high fidelity interactive prototypes, and production-ready assets.
- Leverage and contribute to design systems to create native experiences across web and mobile.
User Research and Design Thinking:
- Assist in framing research goals and objectives.
- Deeply empathize with users while conducting primary user research to uncover unmet needs, pain points, and motivations.
- Ability to identify key patterns and trends from user interviews, feedback, and data.
- Synthesize and present research outputs through thematic insights, user journeys, workflows, and similar artifacts.
- Conceive and facilitate internal workshops using design thinking methodologies to guide teams from ideation to prototyping.
Collaboration and Teamwork:
- Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders, design, product, and development teams to integrate findings into projects.
- Adaptability to work in diverse team environments and respond to changing project needs.
Must Have Skills / Requirements
- Advanced knowledge in Figma.
- Main tool and environment for design work.
- Will be used for layout, prototyping, and communicating visual intent.
- Designing from and contributing to design libraries.
- Excellent visual design skills – shown in portfolio.
- Want to see engaging design and problem-solving approach in your work.
- Many of our products are data-heavy; your portfolio should include examples of how you think of data- and task-centric interfaces.
- Information and Data Synthesis Experience.
- Making visual or other representations of data to communicate with stakeholders and clients.
Nice to Have Skills / Preferred Requirements
- Experience in designing enterprise products.
- Experience in software design and development.
- Background in media or entertainment.
- Branding experience.
- Having experience in branding and graphic design across different media, outside of digital.
Technology Requirements:
- Figma – design & interaction tool
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Miro – business collaboration tool
- Jira – project management and tracking
- Confluence – for documenting data
- MO365
Soft Skills
- User-Centered Mindset: A passion for understanding and advocating for the end user throughout the design process.
- Communication Skills:
- The ability to present complex data and findings in a clear and compelling way to stakeholders at all levels.
- Verbally, visually, and in written form.
- Able to communicate with and build trust-based relationships across different functions and teams.
- Analytical Thinking: Strong ability to interpret data, find patterns, and generate insights from research findings.
- Ability to work independently.
- As a Lead Product Designer, you are expected to be able to quickly ramp up on project needs and work independently and without supervision.
- You are comfortable in ambiguous situations where you need to define needs iteratively and continuously and can flex as new information is presented to you.