Lead Product Designer

$114,400 - $135,200/Yr

BCforward - Minneapolis, MN

Full-time - Senior

Minneapolis, MN

5,001-10,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Lead Product Designer will serve as a leader and contributor for the UX Design team, ensuring the delivery of best-in-class digital products. This role requires strong problem-solving skills, independent self-direction, and a collaborative spirit. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in a fast-paced product delivery environment and a thorough understanding of user-centered design methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Leads and manages a UX team, understanding and identifying a project's needs, performing research and analysis, setting objectives and guidelines, liaising with product and business stakeholders, and presenting final experience design solutions and recommendations.
• Encourages staff to reach product goals while enforcing the company's policies and regulations.
• Creates thoughtful, memorable, and impactful user experiences.
• Drives full-cycle product design lifecycle exercises to inspire and create conversation about user experience outcomes.
• Defines and executes functional and visual design direction.
• Understands mobile-first application experiences and their impacts on human factors.
• Defines and executes interaction design.
• Crafts information architecture based on business goals and objectives.
• Scopes design effort levels (landscape, scope, complexity).
• Partners with product and technical stakeholders to understand constraints and challenge boundaries.
• Researches and applies interaction design trends and mobile experience best practices.
• Performs in an Agile/SCRUM environment, demonstrating problem-solving abilities.
• Drives and contributes to research efforts: both generative and evaluative studies.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Arts, Graphic Design, Business, Marketing, or related field and/or equivalent experience.
• 5-10+ years of experience in user experience design.
• 2+ years of experience in team leadership (with or without direct management).
• Strong visual design skills.
• Awareness and practical understanding of current technologies and their application to digital experiences.
• Solid communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to influence others and provide design thought leadership.
• Experience creating, implementing, and using design systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with design thinking and facilitating workshops.
• Experience managing a large library of design assets for different platforms.
• Proficiency with tools such as Sketch, Figma, Miro, Mural, Jira, and Agile methodology.

Benefits

• Major medical insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Employer-provided group life insurance
• Voluntary life insurance
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• 401k