About the role:
We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to join our team and help us build the next generation of products. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of designing and developing complex systems as well as a deep understanding of B2C functioning. They should also be able to empathize well with users and create usercentered designs. Additionally the candidate should excel at interaction design.
This is a mix of IC and People Manager role so the candidate will be responsible for both designing and building products as well as managing a team of young product designers. People Management and mentoring would be key responsibilities of this individual. The person will also be involved in team management and structuring. The candidate will be responsible for coaching and mentoring their team members to help them grow.
This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated and talented UI/UX Designer to join a dynamic and fastgrowing productbased company. If you are passionate about designing usercentred products and have a proven track record of delivering highquality design work we encourage you to apply for this role.
Responsibilities
- You will collaborate with other designers research product and engineering teams to define and develop relevant intuitive and attractive experiences for our consumers.
- You will envision and create creative concepts that simplify and make difficult design concerns easier to utilize. You are both a conceptual thinker and a craftsperson. Your design work is clean focused and a source of inspiration for others.
- You will also work in an agile atmosphere with a motivated and enthusiastic interdisciplinary team to provide highquality experiences.
- Youll collaborate regularly using strong communication documentation and facilitation skills. Youll work closely with PMs Engineers Data scientists User researchers and writers to make sure your team isnt just shipping great designs but they are deeply involved throughout the design process.
- Youll execute (and advocate for) polished intuitive and accessible user experiences. Youre pragmatic and able to balance the ideal experience with knowing where and when to make scoping tradeoffs based on technical constraints experimentation strategy or business risk.
- Youll help raise the bar for design at Amber. Were a team where every designer plays a critical role in improving our community of practice whether thats through improving our craft skills to leading rituals to giving great feedback.
- Youll regularly work with our Director of Product and the product team in general. This is to help make sure longterm strategy business goals and experience quality are all in alignment and that there are healthy opportunities for visibility and feedback.
- Design and deliver wireframes user flows process flows prototypes and highfidelity visual designs
- Conduct user research and testing to validate design concepts and gather insights to inform design decisions.
- Create and maintain design systems including design guidelines style guides and pattern libraries.
- Stay up to date with current design trends and technologies and bring new and innovative design solutions to the team.
Hard Skills :
- Portfolio demonstrating your ability to translate research results into exceptional product experiences by combining good visual and interaction design concepts. A good portfolio is essential for this post both in terms of proving your expertise and as an example of your ability to build a compelling design presentation that demonstrates problemsolving creative thinking and the delivery of solid endtoend scenarios.
- 56 years of product delivery experience in a product/software context Passion for design and excellent command of interface and visual design abilities
- 23 years of team handling and team management experience. Should know how to lead than manage
- Should have experience in building System Design and excel in Interaction Design etc.
- Undergraduate Degree in HCI related disciplines such as UI Design Interaction Design Information Design Industrial Design Product Design is preferred.
- You must be able to communicate and cooperate across disciplines as well as convey your design ideas with a high degree of influence and effect throughout the team.
- Basic Knowledge of programming languages such as HTML/HTML5 CSS Javascript and or Python is an added bonus
- Expertise with Figma Photoshop Illustrator and related tools. Should also be use to prototyping tools such as InVision Balsamiq Flinto Framer Processing Unity etc.
- Must be wellversed in usercentred design methods and techniques.
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