Who we're looking for:
You're known for your well-honed design skills and talent for leading teams through design projects. You're the glue between design, engineering and product. You own a project from start to finish - solving design challenges while inspiring others through your work and collaboration. You're also growing your leadership skills by being a mentor to other designers.
Who you'll work with:
The Consumer & Enterprise Tools Team is driving the transformation of our product creation capabilities that fuel consumer-led product pipeline. This team is responsible for the digital product design for innovation-to-commercialization platforms used by our merchandising, design and development teammates - obsessing efficient workflows with data, insights and automation. As a key member of this team, you'll report into the Design Director of Consumer Products & Innovation Tools within Digital Product Design.
What your responsibilities will be:
- Thinking big, innovating and driving design execution across a complex product domain, taking ownership of large, ambiguous initiatives
- Designing incredibly polished work that represents the brand and product experience through wireframes, visual comps, flows and prototypes
- Inspiring new ways of thinking and exploring the unknown using fresh approaches to design problems while applying your knowledge of standard methodologies and user-centered design principles to build simple, beautiful and seamless workflows
- Developing design solutions using participatory and iterative techniques including user interviews, observation, usability testing, validation, and design thinking brainstorms and workshops
- Rapidly iterating and refining design concepts - from initial briefing through final delivery
- Mentoring and providing helpful feedback to fellow designers and interns to uplevel their craft and skills
- Evangelizing the brand and driving initiatives that strengthen design culture internally
What you bring:
- 8+ years of relevant experience with end-to-end digital product design with proven experience in visual design and UX
- A bachelor's degree or any combination of education, training and experience in design, UX/UI design, human-computer interaction or a related field
- Strong understanding of product thinking, interaction design, data science, experimentation and execution (expert in one or more areas)
- Hands-on creative and systems thinker with strong UX/UI/IA design expertise
- Demonstrated user-centric design approach and insights-based design process
- Proven collaborator with product managers, engineers, writers, researchers and marketers
- Strong design process; ability to contribute new processes or enhancements to cross-functional teams
- Experience working with consumer research and data
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Exceptional time management skills - providing accurate estimations and often helping the team deliver early
- Ability to influence or create design patterns or standards that are adopted by other teams
- Highly proficient with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Adobe CC, Principle and Keynote
- Cross-platform design experience (enterprise platforms, web, Android, iOS, email, etc.), and ability to approach problems from the consumer perspective-internal or external
- Ability to communicate a vision for the work in a way others can relate to and buy into
- Ability to establish a holistic look and feel between all pieces of a large project
- Experience launching software at scale in a fast-paced product organization
- Passion for the brand, sport and for creating high-quality work
- A fascination with innovation and technology and a solid understanding of digital tools and trends
The target hiring compensation range for this role is $54.60 to $60.67 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.
About Aquent Talent:
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.
Our talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!
Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.