Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join Niche as a Senior Product Designer and define product problems and opportunities, conducting user research and analyzing user experience. You will create a cohesive user experience across Niche products, impacting millions of users annually. This role requires collaboration with various teams, from concept to launch, and demands strong UX/UI design skills. You will lead design thinking, conduct user research, and craft designs from flows to high-fidelity mockups. Excellent communication and collaboration skills are essential. Niche offers a flexible work environment, competitive compensation, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a UX Designer, UI Designer, Product Designer, or similar role
• BA in Graphic Design, Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Media or related creative field
• Strong awareness of user interface, accessibility, and interaction design best practices
• Comfortable owning and breaking down ambiguous discovery and research problems—conducting, analyzing, and synthesizing user research, workflows, and user testing
• Experience with discovery process—conducting, analyzing, and synthesizing user research and user testing
• Experience in UI/UX design for consumer-based web products, mobile applications (Web, iOS, & Android), or SaaS products
• Ability to generate multiple design solutions, evaluate their strengths and weaknesses, and incorporate team feedback to improve upon selected designs
• Superior eye for visual aesthetics, layout, general design principles, and attention to detail
• Advanced proficiency with Figma, FigJam, and other standard design tools

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Product, Research, Engineering, and other Design Team members to apply a human-centered design approach and visualize the future of Niche
• Lead design thinking strategy on cross-functional product teams, handling complex and business-critical projects
• Partner with Product and Research to conduct user interviews and user testing, determine common pain points, define the problems and opportunities, product improvements, and priorities
• Conduct research independently to inform design decisions and validate potential product changes
• Socializes those learnings with the rest of product design to enhance everyone's understanding of our products and users
• Design flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes and high-fidelity mock-ups, utilizing existing patterns and components
• Contribute to the design systems and tools used by the Design team, redefining the bounds of convention when necessary, and raising the bar as a model for others to follow
• Showcase your vision and rationale behind design decisions to stakeholders and your team
• Communicates complex ideas, goals, and problems in a way that is accessible even to those unfamiliar with the project
• Presents ideas and arguments logically and concisely
• Contribute to a collaborative culture by asking for and offering feedback from other product designers and cross-functional teammates and be an active leader on the Design Team as a source of support and knowledge
• Can shift gears easily and cope with change
• Enjoys working hard
• Is action- and solution-oriented
• Proactively seek out additional data, context, and knowledge to find the best solution and work through complexity to maintain momentum
• Enthusiastic about improving yourself, the team, and the company
• Learn about Niche by meeting with various team members to learn more about our company through our Onboarding meetings
• Collaborate with various team members to learn about how your role fits within the team
• Attend onboarding sessions to better understand our internal processes and learn about the company
• Collaborate with other designers to begin to understand our workflow, design system, and tooling
• Shadow design team members to learn more about how we collaborate with other areas of the business and how your role fits with cross-functional teams
• Build confidence to work with our design tools
• Be the primary designer for a product team and represent the design perspective
• Collaborate with members of the Product Management team to gain the expertise of our users and ensure work stays aligned to the product vision
• Have a high-level understanding of your assigned product areas
• Build confidence in providing constructive and thoughtful feedback to other designers
• Have in-depth knowledge of your assigned product areas and a solid understanding of how the product areas work together
• You are actively working to improve Design tooling and processes
• You are a strategic leader and the primary designer for one or more product teams handling complex, business-critical projects
• You have a strong understanding of all major product areas, recognizing patterns, and contributing to design strategy across the suite of Niche products
• You are a mentor and source of support for other designers

Benefits

• Fully flexible workforce empowering our employees to choose to work remotely, in our Pittsburgh office or whatever combination suits you
• Full time, salaried position with competitive compensation in a fast-growing company
• Best-in-class 100% paid employee health plan, including vision and dental and supplemental coverage
• Flexible Paid Time Off Policy
• Stipend that allows you to build your work from home office in a style and function that suits your personal preferences
• Parental leave for all employees (12 weeks fully paid) in addition to short term disability for birthing parents
• Meaningful 401(k) with employer match
• Our national target base salary range is $104,000-$130,000, plus participation in our Annual Bonus and Stock Option Program