Lead Product Designer
Proximity Works
Staff Product Designer
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full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇮🇳 India
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Lead
About the role
- Craft industry-leading system architectures, seamless user flows, usable interaction models, and highly polished visual UI designs.
- Define product experiences that accelerate sales workflows via prospecting, records management, account planning, and multiple generative AI capabilities.
- Partner closely with other designers to collaborate and iterate on solutions, and expand our design system patterns.
- Present well-considered design strategies, concepts and prototypes, and communicate the underlying rationale with confidence to your team and company leadership.
- Balance customer needs, business goals, and technical considerations to ship well-considered product enhancements that deliver measurable impact.
- Partner with our Product Managers to conduct customer interviews, gather qualitative and quantitative insights to support your design work, and run usability studies to evaluate proposed solutions.
- Work with a highly adept team of Product, Engineering, and Marketing partners to advance core product capabilities and bring new insights to streamline user flows.
- Become an expert in the sales representative persona, their pain points and user needs.
- Help us co-create a vibrant inclusive design culture co-created by team members from various geographies (incl. US, CZ, IN) and backgrounds, focused on mutual support and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Have a strong portfolio demonstrating experience in shaping product visions, creating design concepts, customer journeys, beautiful and elegant visual UI designs, and crafting interaction details that solve complex customer problems.
- Have experience leading design for a major feature area or vertical independently, and are confident bringing a strong and informed design point of view.
- You work with complete autonomy and can lead collaborative working sessions and workshops, across disciplines to meet project objectives.
- You’re able to define entirely new product propositions and solve significant interaction complexity and ambiguity without a clear precedent.
- Are skilled in presenting and explaining your work, process, decisions, and rationale to cross-functional stakeholders and proactively seek feedback to deliver world-class designs.
- Skillfully gauge and adjust your process and deliverable fidelity for proposed solutions to meet the objectives. Including: early vision, conceptual work, information architecture, low fidelity wireframes, user flow prototypes, detailed visual design, and design specifications.
- Can work within fast-paced agile teams where close collaboration is part of the daily rhythm. You’re outcome-oriented and not easily overwhelmed or discouraged.
- Have experience participating in and driving research activities and utilizing the knowledge of the customer for envisioning novel solutions in undefined problem spaces.
- Are a systems thinker and can utilize, propose, and extend shared components, patterns, and interactive behaviors.
- Are passionate about the details and always keep pushing your work until it is refined, elegant, and world class.
- You exemplify, maintain, and improve our design processes, introducing new methods, frameworks, and tools, to improve team creativity and efficiency.
- Have 10+ years of experience in digital product design / UX design / interaction design for software products. Bonus points for having designed workflow-based productivity tools powered by AI.
- Are uncompromisingly service-minded and anticipate the needs of customers and colleagues with empathy.
- You communicate clearly and succinctly, both in written and verbal form, to various audiences across the business, including senior leadership.
- You have an inclusive, transparent collaboration style and strong stakeholder management skills. Bonus points for experience collaborating with distributed teams across timezones.
Benefits
- We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
- Our success is reliant on building teams that include people from different backgrounds and experiences who can elevate assumptions and ideas with fresh perspectives. We're dedicated to hiring the whole human, not just a resume. To that end, we look for a diverse pool of applicants-including those from historically marginalized groups. We would like to invite you to apply even if you don't think you meet all of the requirements listed below. We don't want a few lines in a job description to get between us and the opportunity to meet you.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
system architectureuser flowsinteraction designvisual UI designcustomer journey mappinginformation architecturewireframingprototypingagile methodologiesdesign specifications
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationstakeholder managementempathyautonomycreativityadaptabilityproblem-solvingleadershipservice-mindedness
