Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join Lightspeed as a Senior Product Designer and collaborate to create exceptional user experiences for our Financial Services team. You will lead design projects, leverage UX expertise, and translate concepts into delightful product features. Responsibilities include designing holistic systems and interfaces, drawing insights from research, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of product design experience, excellent communication skills, and experience with AI tools. You will be a positive role model and advocate for design within the organization. Lightspeed offers a flexible work environment, career growth opportunities, and various benefits.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of practical, in-house product, UX/UI design experience
• Excellent communication skills. You can bring internal stakeholders on your design journey and explain work with focus and brevity
• Strong aesthetic skills to help elevate the visual identity of our brands
• Applied experience with service design practices and a curiosity to evolve your design process
• Applied experience working across all digital and physical manifestations of what we design - from the responsive web to native applications to the next technological leap
• Experience leveraging AI tools to aid in the product design process to deliver better, more user-centered products
• Fluency in use of design systems, prototyping, and user research methodologies
• An acute level of self-awareness and deep empathy - for both the customer and your team’s goals
• A deep curiosity and ability to consider product strategy and vision. You don’t just care about “how it looks,” or “what we should design,” but “why are we designing this at all?”
• An arsenal of design tools such as Figma, Google Suite, JIRA, and other prototyping tools

Responsibilities

• Lead project work from a design perspective with autonomy and authority, facilitating design reviews and working sessions to help the teams deliver the best possible solutions
• Leverage your UX expertise and deep understanding of design systems, UI design, and how micro-interactions can help users complete a task
• Turn nebulous concepts into specific ideas that are useful and delightful product features
• Design holistic systems, flows and interfaces that are simple, elegant, and user-friendly
• Understand how to use the current design system best to ensure consistency across platforms and contribute to its continuous improvement
• Draw insights from research and data, and know how to turn those insights into tangible solutions
• Build relationships and advocate for the user when collaborating with cross-functional teams in product, engineering, and marketing
• Be a positive role model and culture carrier within the studio as well as an advocate for design within the Lightspeed organization

Benefits

• A flexible work environment that empowers you to do your best work
• A culture that celebrates performance
• The chance to make an impact in a team that’s big enough for career growth, but lean enough to make your voice heard
• Career-defining opportunities
• Flexible paid time off and remote work policies
• Equity options, because this is your company too
• Contributions to your pension plan. Your future matters
• Training opportunities to grow your skills and career
• Health and wellness credit so you feel your best
• Time off to volunteer and give back to your community
• Interest groups, employee led networks, social committees to sponsored sports teams
• Enhanced parental leave to support growing families