Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join Remote as a Senior Product Designer and make a difference in the global employment space. Senior Designers at Remote are highly experienced and autonomously own design for a dev team or feature area. You will work with a thriving cross-discipline team and a talented product design team that will support your growth. Design is at the forefront of everything Remote does, aiming to craft the best experience in the category. The role requires a mastery of end-to-end design, including strategy, research, envisioning, visual and interaction design, and design systems. Remote offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including flexible paid time off, flexible working hours, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, and more.

Requirements

• An IC product designer who is very experienced, and whose work history and portfolio demonstrates that they have clearly mastered the key pillars of their end-to-end craft
• Work history that demonstrates your ability to autonomously own design for your team or feature area
• An impressive portfolio of work that shows how your design work consistently delivers outstanding results for both the business and for end users
• Work that demonstrates your experience and product design craft via simplicity, typography, interaction design and UI design
• Case studies that help us understand your full end-to-end design process from insight gathering through to defining the customer problem, conceptual design, delivery, measurement and optimization
• Clear evidence that you are an effective cross-functional collaborator within your dev team who uses feedback, consensus building and conflict resolution to drive great outcomes
• Persuasive communication that helps you confidently build narratives around your design work to bring your team along with you - with, clear, fluent written and spoken English that will help you communicate effectively with colleagues all over the world
• Evidence that you are beginning to have a wider influence on your design team - you may mentor others and share work that has an impact on the larger design team
• Candidates that embody and demonstrate our core values at Remote

Responsibilities

• Develop strategy for your feature area of the product in partnership with leaders and cross functional collaborators
• Clearly understand business, user and technical needs
• Confidently identify the right moment to do research, pick the right research methodologies and run your own research, with the support of UX research coaches
• Have a firm grasp on common research methodologies
• Be a key player in vision processes and concepting where you can rapidly work through mock ups and iterations to create excellent solutions
• Create compelling vision work and breakthrough ideas
• Confidently bring high-fidelity designs to life at a high quality
• Have a firm grasp on the UI skillset and can confidently use type, colour, layout and illustration to excellent effect
• Build usable flows, and prototypes to help the team make decisions
• Refine your work and consider the delightful and highly efficient details that make a loveable product
• Master using the design system and be very familiar with how to use it to its best advantage
• Know when to improve the design system rather than strictly following it
• Easily express highly complex flows and interactions that help those around you gain clarity
• Contribute to building the information architecture of the product
• Master stronger storytelling skills around your work that persuade others
• Give and receive critique effectively to help others on the team
• Use clear, transparent and kind communication to drive the excellence of your team
• Master the feedback cycle, using it to improve your work and know when to push back or compromise
• Have an efficient, dynamic and reliable design process that propels your team
• Become proficient at working with stakeholders
• Be an exemplary team member who provides valuable peer support, crit and feedback to others
• Run and lead crit and team culture sessions
• Confidently lead and facilitate workshops

Preferred Qualifications

• Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments
• Deep Fintech, HR tech, B2B or SaaS experience is a plus for this position
• It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (we are async )
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office budget & IT equipment
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces