Lead Product Designer

Summary

Join Pathstream as a Lead Product Designer and lead projects to successful outcomes for learners and partner companies. You will shape the learner journey by creating intuitive and accessible designs, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring a seamless development process. This role requires expertise in interaction and visual design, a deep understanding of user needs, and strong communication skills. You will work from idea to implementation, collaborating with designers, product managers, engineers, and executives. Pathstream offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a remote-first culture. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in product design and a proven track record of success.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product design with a proven track record of working within a product team to ship successful products to users
• Proficient in user experience best practices, accessibility, responsiveness, design systems, industry standards for UX/UI design, and user testing methodologies
• Highly proficient with Figma
• Excellent communication, presentation, and collaboration skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment
• Experience leading the end-to-end design process
• Methodical with strong attention to detail
• Self-directed and biased towards action
• Constantly improving and open to feedback through collaboration
• Strong design portfolio that demonstrates depth of skill in both UX and UI, solving complex problems with elegant design solutions
• Excels at understanding and prioritizing the needs of users and stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions
• You’re confident in navigating uncertainty and adapting your methodology to fit the problem space
• You’re an effective communicator and team player

Responsibilities

• Design user interactions that are intuitive, efficient, and accessible, enhancing the overall user experience
• Tendency towards systems thinking, distilling when to leverage patterns and when to innovate
• Ability to think through complex use cases and distill how to communicate design intent through user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes across different levels of stakeholders
• Always considers edge cases and knows how to assess and prioritize them as it relates to the user experience
• Deliver a high level of visual design, creating interfaces that are both aesthetically pleasing and functional
• Deliver high-quality designs across all stages of the product life cycle, from initial concepts to final handoff
• Knowledgeable in responsive and adaptive design
• Experience with building and/or contributing to design systems
• Collaborate with product management to align design work with overall product strategy and user needs
• Balance business objectives with a deep understanding of the needs of frontline workers
• Closely collaborate with UX Researcher to conduct user research and interviews as needed to gain insights into the experiences, challenges, and needs of frontline workers
• Use qualitative and quantitative data to inform design decisions and validate product ideas
• Develop a deep understanding of effective user experiences for students learning new skills
• Work closely with engineering and product management teams to ensure design intent and maintain a seamless development process
• Provide design specifications and assets, and support implementation with frequent communication and iteration
• File tickets for bugs and be responsive in JIRA, lead design QA, and support prioritization of design changes
• Present and articulate design decisions and rationale to stakeholders and team members at all levels
• Facilitate workshops and design reviews to gather feedback, align on goals, and build consensus
• Stay updated on design trends, tools, and best practices, and bring new ideas and techniques to the team
• Continuously iterate on designs based on user feedback and data to improve usability and effectiveness

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working at a fully remote company is a plus
• Experience designing for diverse, non-traditional users is a plus (e.g., frontline or deskless workers)

Benefits

• Transparent and social culture, challenging work, fast learning cycles, practical training, and meaningful feedback
• Strong sense of ownership and strategic work that impacts our product, users, colleagues, business, and world
• Competitive salary commensurate with experience
• Zone 1 (San Francisco, New York City): $134,000-$157,000
• Zone 2: $121,000 - $141,000
• Zone 3: $108,000-125,500
• Comprehensive benefits package
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and 50% for your partner/spouse and dependents
• Health, commuter, and parking flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance Program (mental health, financial health, legal support, and more)
• Free access to wellbeing apps like Ginger and Headspace
• Flexible paid time off and paid holidays
• Generous paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Annual professional development budget
• Company-provided laptop
• Remote-first culture
• Life insurance (100% company paid)
• 401(k)