Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join charity: water's Product Design team as a remote Product Designer focused on donor retention. You will be responsible for designing intuitive digital user experiences to enhance donor engagement and retention. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other team members to deliver effective design solutions. Contribute to the design system, ensuring accessibility and scalability. Conduct user research to inform design decisions and maintain a user-centered approach. This role requires 4-6 years of experience in product design and proficiency in design tools like Figma and Adobe Creative Suite. The position offers a remote work environment, unlimited PTO, and other benefits.

Requirements

• 4 - 6 years of experience working as a Product Designer, with experience taking design projects from problem definition to production and beyond
• A strong online portfolio displaying user-centered digital product design, with experience designing personalized user experiences
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience designing within an evolving design system
• A basic understanding of how modern web technologies inform design (HTML, CSS, JS)
• An empathetic, user-centered approach that aligns design solutions with business goals
• A passion for learning and ability to pick things up quickly
• A passion for iterating on and optimizing critical user flows

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design process for your squad, from creating user flows, wireframes, and journey maps to developing interactive prototypes and high-fidelity, mobile-first digital experiences
• Effectively communicate design concepts from discovery to implementation
• Contribute to our evolving design system to maintain consistency, scalability, and accessibility across all products
• Collaborate with your squad’s Product Manager to define design requirements and ensure alignment with business and user goals
• Design highly personalized experiences that require partnering with engineers to explore options and ensure a high-quality, efficient, and scalable implementation
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of our users and their behaviors through qualitative and quantitative research
• Contribute to our cross-functional design culture through design reviews, collaboration, and staying current on industry best practices
• Ensure accessibility standards are met in all designs
• Craft UX/UI copy, including creating effective microcopy for buttons, labels, form fields, tooltips, and error messages
• Foster proactive communication and collaboration in a remote environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in an agile workflow and remote environment
• Familiarity with building, maintaining, or contributing to design systems to ensure consistency and scalability
• Experience with data visualization
• Experience in creating animations (eg: in After Effects, utilizing Lottie, or via code) or designing smooth micro-interactions that enhance the user experience
• Experience conducting or interpreting qualitative and quantitative research to inform design decisions
• Experience with the Google Ventures Design Sprint methodology

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Summer Fridays
• 6-week paid sabbatical leave after 5 years of employment
• Annual bonus potential through The Pool
• 401k plan + employer match
• Medical covered at 80% + Dental/Vision contributions
• FSA + dependent day care FSA
• Employer-paid life insurance, STD, LTD
• 16-week paid maternity and paternity leave for new parents
• Stipends for Home office, Professional Development, TSA Pre-check and a You-do-You Perk
• 2-4 annual travel requirements to spend quality in-person time with the team