Product Designer

Summary

Join Coforma's growing, distributed team as a Product Designer! You'll bridge research and delivery, focusing on creating high-quality, accessible designs that meet user needs and business goals. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, iterate on designs based on user research and feedback, and present your work to clients. This remote US-based position requires a minimum of 4 years of product design experience and strong communication skills. Coforma offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and growth potential. The role involves some travel and requires residing in one of the specified states.

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in a product design role—preferably working on a cross- or multi-functional team—in which you participated in projects from discovery through launch and worked with project leadership to develop and execute end-to-end product design
• Ability to communicate clearly in writing and orally (whether verbally or through assistive technologies/aids) to increase transparency
• Able to integrate feedback, validate, and iterate on our products while being mindful of our customers, contributors, and insights gleaned by our support teams
• Experience creating designs, from concept through non-code prototypes, with modern programs
• A keenness for identifying user needs, defining clear solutions, and delivering those through detailed design
• Proficiency crafting or altering quality artifacts, including archetypes, journey maps, user and task flows, wireframes, sitemaps, and clickable prototypes, all with limited support
• The flexibility to design in low and high fidelity
• Experience with interaction design, usability, and accessibility
• Strong visual design skills
• The ability to help plan and execute design research sessions or workshops
• The ability to use qualitative and quantitative data to inform your designs and recommendations
• Discernment and experience to select the most efficient and responsible process and tool for the job at hand

Responsibilities

• Collaborating closely with your research, design, product, and development teammates, you’ll efficiently create accessible, sophisticated, high-quality, and usable designs that solve problems and meet user needs
• Often working under the guidance of a design lead, you’ll primarily focus on creating high-quality product design deliverables for our clients, from discovery through optimization and hand-off
• Develop, execute, and iterate on product design deliverables, often in collaboration with other design disciplines such as design research, UX design, content design, and visual design
• Design exceptional products from start to finish, participating in all phases of design, from definition to development and optimization
• Iterate actively with prototypes at all levels of design fidelity, informed by user research and testing, market trends, and business goals
• Communicate and share often in written, verbal, and visual forms to create alignment and move the work toward implementation
• Present work—internally and to clients—communicating the why, the what, and the how of your insights and recommendations
• Utilize and contribute to design systems
• Collaborate regularly with accessibility specialists and engineers to ship high-quality experiences
• Contribute to the product design practice through knowledge sharing, participation in critiques, and giving and receiving craft guidance
• Build and maintain stakeholder, team, and participant relationships proactively and responsively
• Seek, promote, and model a highly collaborative, responsible, and ethical culture through your individual actions

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years experience working on a remote team or remote freelancing
• Prior professional services, civic tech, government and/or federal consulting experience
• Experience writing or editing requirements for government proposals
• The ideal applicant will be comfortable in a fast-paced environment, flexible, innovative, and attentive to detail
• Experience conducting remote-only research
• Veteran of the United States Armed Forces

Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off along with paid holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• A 401(k) plan with an employer match
• Internet, phone, and home office stipends
• A professional development fund along with numerous growth opportunities