Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join FreeWill, an award-winning social-good startup, as a Senior Product Designer to help raise the next $10 billion for charity. Collaborate with a talented team to create the user experience vision. You will leverage research insights and data, creating elegantly simple solutions to complex problems. The role requires 6+ years of product design experience and 3+ years leading design projects. FreeWill offers competitive compensation ($140,000-$150,000 + stock options), work-from-home flexibility, unlimited PTO, and a comprehensive benefits package. The company values work-life balance, learning, and growth, fostering a kind and joyful work environment.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience working in a product design role
• 3+ years leading design projects alongside a product manager (non-management)
• Strong product and strategy intuition, with experience in multiple types of research
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills, including skillful planning and facilitation of leadership stakeholder discussions and workshops
• Highly proficient with Figma
• Excellence in both UI/UX design craft and systems thinking
• Good understanding of accessibility and design systems
• Solid experience designing for responsive web
• Experience managing a complex workload, prioritizing with business priorities in mind
• Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, cross-functional team
• Be available for occasional meetings and on-sites with people at FreeWill within the Eastern time zone, possibly in person

Responsibilities

• Plan strategically and think tactically as a partner with designer, product, and engineering to define the product strategy
• Shape product strategy by evangelizing to solve persistent user problems and establishing UX metrics to measure the human outcomes of our work
• Independently problem solve, think big, and explore divergent concepts/ideas while understanding how to converge and build iteratively towards your vision
• Use research and data to tell a holistic end-to-end story (from discovery and competitive research to usability testing and QA), while executing high quality UI/UX designs via wireframes, mockups, specs, user journeys, and cross-platform interactive prototypes
• Write technical specifications and tickets for the design work that you will deliver, estimating alongside engineers and management
• Perform QA/UAT on tickets to ensure the high quality delivery of projects
• Set up the systems/processes for sharing cross-functionally and receiving frequent feedback
• Use excellent time management skills to scale up, cut back, or reconsider solutions based on project objectives, resources, and business requirements – knowing when to balance the delivery of an MVP or a highly-polished product

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the graphic or visual design space
• Experience designing administrative systems for those working in specialized roles such as legal or supporting nonprofit organizations
• Experience translating legal regulations through designs
• Experience scoping and defining research questions and executing research studies

Benefits

• Work from home
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible hours
• Competitive salary
• Commuter benefits
• Company stock options
• 401k
• Medical/Dental/Vision (some single coverage medical plans are 100% employer paid, subsidized rates for spousal, parent-child, and family coverage)
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Free One Medical membership
• Paid parental leave for all parents