Product Designer - Grapevine, TX

Paycom - Grapevine, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Grapevine, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Product Designer role involves creating visual representations for existing and new screens across the Pa system on multiple platforms. The designer collaborates closely with team members and the Team Lead to produce high-quality mockups for mobile and web applications, influencing the overall design strategy and ensuring alignment with product and development teams.

Responsibilities

• Leads design projects across modules and platforms
• Influences the overall design strategy for the Pa system
• Translates design to layout, typography and visual hierarchy
• Partners closely with product and development teams to support design strategy
• Determines product overlap and user experience when using multiple components
• Guides design process through work with cross-functional teams to ensure vision and execution alignment
• Points out and proposes solutions to potential conflicts or collisions between different products, platforms and features
• Uses design systems and frameworks to create new design styles, patterns and components
• Uses research data, design principles, or other objective information to support and promote design decisions and recommendations
• Creates and conducts usability testing, produces research reports from testing with findings and uses in designs
• Maintains and recommends evolutions of current design styles, patterns and components
• Considers future goals and product roadmaps when designing a product
• Designs for the holistic user experience and potential states when designing a product
• Creates interactive prototypes of various levels
• Runs usability testing on their prototypes
• Conducts User interviews with clients
• Assists in user research, studies and experiments and analyzes and socializes findings
• Leads discussions and collaborations between cross-functional teams
• Mentors Associate and Product Designers
• Promotes department's vision and goals across the organization
• Leads meetings within and outside of design, gives presentations to cross-functional groups and senior level leaders
• Collects data using various collection techniques and designs products based on data analysis
• Proactively learns new tools and proposes new tech solutions
• Contributes to the culture by advocating and driving execution of design-driven projects and initiatives throughout the entire company
• Assists with special projects as needed

Requirements

• High School Diploma/GED
• 2+ years' experience in design, including multi-platform application, product, graphic design, digital media or related
• Portfolio required for review upon interview

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree in art, computer science, or technical field
• Familiar with different data collection techniques and design products based on data analysis
• Demonstrated proficiency in information architecture, user flows and cross-platform flows
• Strong understanding of department vision, the development process, and the interdependencies
• Understands the different frameworks of other teams outside the Product department
• Advanced ability to use originality, imagination, and creativity in designs
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of mobile interface design across multiple operating systems
• Strong knowledge in HTML/CSS
• Strong knowledge in working in design programs
• Effectively builds and manages relationships across teams and functions
• Able to communicate complex ideas, goals and problems in a way that is easy for others not familiar with the project to understand
• Proficient in UI software, Principle, Axure, Confluence, UTrack and Wrike
• Comprehensive knowledge of Web 2.0 Technologies, Javascript Technologies: JQuery, Json, Ajax, Rich Internet Application Development, Responsive Web Design, and UI Performance Tuning
• Self-directed with the ability to work with minimal supervision
• Flexible and cooperative in fulfilling all obligations
• Strong presentation skills and confidence in presenting recommendations to leadership