Discover Financial Services - Deerfield, IL
posted 6 months ago
As a Principal Product Designer at Discover, you will play a pivotal role in leading the product design of our design systems, ensuring they exhibit industry-leading visual design and interaction. Your primary responsibility will be to design and compose guidance for components, patterns, and all design system elements, facilitating the creation of accessible, refreshing, and easy-to-use experiences for our customers. You will leverage both qualitative and quantitative data to understand user problems and develop solutions that continually enhance the design system. In this role, you will actively manage and escalate risks and customer-impacting issues that arise in your day-to-day responsibilities. You will be tasked with developing design concepts, wireframes, prototypes, and other UX/UI design deliverables using tools such as Figma. Understanding the needs, motivations, and behaviors of target users will be crucial as you work to improve your skills with a continuous learning mindset. You will create user experience design projects that ensure cohesive user experiences throughout customer journeys. Collaborating with key stakeholders—including business owners, product owners, technology teams, legal, and research—you will design best-in-class product design system experiences across Discover's digital channels. Your strategic collaboration with experience design, product design, and engineering teams will help identify the requirements for digital experiences and design system elements. Additionally, you will partner with the Experience Design team to identify key deliverables and experiences, prioritizing them with product teams. Utilizing user research and A/B testing, you will present and validate design solutions, contributing to design system documentation, guidelines, and governance. You will also work closely with frontend and backend engineers to translate your designs into code, ensuring a seamless implementation of your design vision.