Come join our Design team
Our Design team is committed to creating industry-leading user experiences that help Karat deliver on its purpose of unlocking opportunity.
What you will do
As a contract Product Designer at Karat, you will exercise your passion for designing elegant, inclusive, and goal-directed product experiences to help Karat with some of its H2 product initiatives. This is a 40-hour, three-month contract. Working hours will be 9:00 am PT to 5:00 pm PT, Monday through Friday.
- Work closely with Karat’s Design, Engineering, and Product teams on current Company initiatives, reaching alignment to achieve project outcomes and implementation.
- Perform cross-team ideation on key projects, solving complex problems that resonate at the most customer-centric intersection between design, business, content, and technology.
- Provide the right mix of context, storytelling, and execution specifics at the appropriate forum/venue and level of detail required.
- Contribute human-centered, generative ideas through design research; lean on formative prototyping and collaboration with researchers to learn and iterate design execution.
- Contribute to and improve the Company’s design system, aid as libraries, patterns, and workflows.
The experience you will bring
- 3+ years as a professional UX or product designer
- High-quality portfolio with clear critical and informed thinking and strong polish.
- Knowledge of the latest design patterns, emerging technologies, and other developments in the field
- Working knowledge of Figma, Miro, and other industry-leading Product Design tools
- Confidence in applying best practices to common problems for solid solutions
- Decision-making that is consistently strong, clear, and human-centered
- Ability to work towards business goals within technical constraints, recognizing that human needs must be balanced with other goals and priorities
- Strong empathy, optimism, and active listening when collaborating closely with other disciplines, partners, and users
- Attention to detail, curiosity, and situation-driven ownership
- Ability to determine which feedback you receive is actionable and integrate it into your work
- Strong English communication (both verbal and written)