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LeadStack - Burbank, CA, United States, 91520
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Job Title: Product Designer IV
Location: Burbank CA 91505 – Hybrid – Tues-Thurs in-office
Duration: 12 Months
Max Hourly Pay Rate: $92.90/hr
What We Do/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 across multiple projects and business units. Your role as a Lead Product Designer is rewarding, with the opportunity to create and improve the digital products that run our company, from internal operations to external-facing sites encompassing 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.
- Empathize with users while conducting primary user research to uncover unmet needs, pain points, and motivations.
- 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:
- Work collaboratively with stakeholders, design, product, and development teams to integrate findings into projects.
- Adapt 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.
- Used for layout, prototyping, and communicating visual intent.
- Designing from and contributing to Design Libraries.
- Excellent visual design skills – shown in Portfolio.
- Engaging design and problem-solving approach in your work.
- Portfolio should include examples 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.
- 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 clearly and compellingly 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 quickly ramp up on project needs and work independently without supervision.
- Comfortable in ambiguous situations where you need to define needs iteratively and continuously and can flex as new information is presented.
Education / Certifications
- None