Product Designer

Summary

Join Huckleberry as a Senior Product Designer and own the design of new mobile and web products. You will utilize your creative talents to design and launch innovative products that positively impact children and families. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, from product and research to design and engineering, to bring your ideas to life. This is a 6-month contract position (40 hours/week), open to global applicants, with an hourly rate between $30 and $40. The role requires a strong portfolio showcasing your design work and a reasonable working overlap with the Pacific timezone. You will report to the Head of Product Design.

Requirements

• 3+ years of product design experience
• Visual design skills with a track record of clean aesthetics
• Strong knowledge of design systems and Figma variables
• A strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience and deliverables that show solid user experience and understanding of best practices when applied to visual UI and product work
• Experience creating and refining flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals using Figma, Sketch, or similar
• Experience with human/computer interaction and how this translates into and affects design choices
• Self-starter with a proven track record of owning and driving the full product design and development cycle

Responsibilities

• Own the full design lifecycle for features
• Work closely with user researchers to understand the needs and pain points of our users
• Create enchanting and beautifully simple designs that delight our users
• Communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams to create alignment and understanding to bring products to fruition efficiently
• Spearhead and execute prototype and usability testing
• Maintaining design system
• Creating mockups for a/b testing experiments

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Graphic design, or other design-related areas
• Research experience
• Previous experience designing mobile applications or consumer-facing web products

Benefits

$30 - $40 an hour