Lessen

Product Designer I

Lessen

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Chicago • Illinois • United States

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About the role

  • Create elegant, smart, and usable designs for web and mobile applications.
  • Thrive in a fast-paced environment that demands rapidly concepting, iterating and testing concepts.
  • Prioritize your tasks effectively. Demonstrate strong self-management skills.
  • Use design thinking methodologies to empathize, learn, ideate, and refine.
  • Be curious about the industry, the company, its customers, your teammates and yourself.
  • Take ownership of the end-to-end Product Design for your assigned scrum teams. Gather product requirements independently and drive the design review cycle.
  • Communicate design strategy and rationale to product managers, clients, customers, developers, and other team members.
  • Craft copy that helps users complete the task at hand.
  • Adhere and enhance our Design System.
  • Research and share knowledge of the industry’s latest trends and tools.
  • Work with team members across time zones.
  • Perform ad-hoc projects and other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
  • UX/HCI education at a boot camp, college, or graduate school, or equivalent work experience.
  • Entry level, or less than 2 years of experience creating iterative design, working closely with team leads, peers, customers, and developers from inception through implementation.
  • Proficient with UX tools to produce wireframes, prototypes, and workflows.
  • Proficiency with Figma preferred.
  • Familiar working with design system UI libraries
  • Ability to present UX research to build empathy for users, UX deliverables to convey workflows, and Figma prototypes to bring experiences to fruition.
  • Ability to convey user experience through stories and presentations and frame problems for a diverse audience of stakeholders, helping them envision potential design opportunities.
  • Working knowledge of usability principles, conventions, and techniques
  • Able to proactively manage expectations and communicate accurate timelines.
  • Passionate and vocal advocate about all things Product Design and other areas of design and innovation
  • Passionate about taking complex processes and making them simple to navigate.
Benefits
  • Competitive compensation
  • Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability options
  • 401K retirement savings plan
  • Paid vacation, federal and floating holidays
  • Maternity/Paternity Pay
  • Career advancement opportunities
  • All the tools you'll need to be successful

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
iterative designwireframesprototypesworkflowsusability principlesdesign thinking methodologiesdesign system UI librariesFigma
Soft skills
self-managementcommunicationcuriosityownershipempathypresentationproblem framingexpectation management
Certifications
Bachelor’s DegreeUX/HCI education