A 3Cloud Lead Product Designer is someone who enjoys continually improving and growing their technical and team collaboration skills. Someone who possesses an independent spirit while relishing the opportunity to manage a team. Someone who is capable of solving the complex, real-world business problems of today through custom software-based solutions and design. If this is a path that excites you, let’s chat!
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of UX designers, providing mentorship, guidance, and feedback to help them grow and develop their skills.
- Define and implement UX design processes, methodologies, and best practices to ensure consistent and high-quality design outcomes.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define product requirements and user stories.
- Conduct user research, usability testing, and competitive analysis to gather insights and inform design decisions.
- Create wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that effectively communicate design concepts and interactions.
- Lead design reviews and critiques to ensure designs meet user needs, business objectives, and technical requirements.
- Advocate for the user experience throughout the product development lifecycle, from concept to launch and beyond.
- Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in UX design, sharing insights and recommendations with the team.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university in Design, an adjacent field, or relevant certification
- 10+ years of UI/UX design experience, with at least 2 years of experience in a leadership or management role.
- Experience applying user-centered design methodologies, planning and conducting user research, usability testing, rapid prototyping, conducting heuristic analysis, and addressing accessibility concerns.
- Strong portfolio showcasing your design process, problem-solving skills, and the impact of your work on user experiences.
- Experience working with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision.
- Analytical skills with proven ability to dissect problems, devise solutions, and drive valuable business results.
- Clear and effective communication skills to relay design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
- Deep understanding of user-centered design principles, user research methodologies, and usability best practices.
- Experience producing User Personas and Customer Journey maps.
- Experience with prototyping and design specification tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, or similar tools.
- Passion to resolve client and user pain points through great design
- Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end development frameworks
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- Willingness to step in when needed and take on variable roles and assignments within reasonable parameters of your abilities
- Willingness to travel (up to 10%) periodically. Currently we are not requiring travel to client engagements.
Great to Have
- Experience working in the Consulting industry
- Experience designing enterprise products
- Experience creating new products and optimizing existing products from research through development
This Job Posting will expire on Monday, September 23rd, 2024.