Senior Product Designer

$145,000 - $145,000/Yr

Blackline Systems LTD - Pleasanton, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Pleasanton, CA

1,001-5,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Product Designer at BlackLine is responsible for leading UX strategy and designing user-friendly interfaces for the BlackLine Consolidation & Financial Analytics product. This role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams to create a user-centered design that aligns with business goals and technological capabilities. The designer will contribute to the overall design direction, support the design team, and advocate for user needs while ensuring adherence to best practices and the BlackLine Design System.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver an innovative end-to-end user experience that optimizes user needs, business goals, and technological realities across web and mobile platforms.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, product design/research teams, and other stakeholders to create a user-centered, market-leading product design.
• Communicate and influence internal teams, partners, and customers by visualizing ideas and concepts through documentation, reviews, and presentations.
• Deliver hands-on design artifacts from conceptualization to the final product, including CJM, sketches, user flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes.
• Support and adhere to BlackLine Design System and best practices and work with other designers as needed.
• Conduct and analyze quantitative and qualitative UX research.
• Set up and collect success metrics for the products.
• Stay up to date on best practices, competitor UI designs, emerging technologies, and industry trends.
• Advocate for accessibility within the team and develop applications that are global in reach, universal in design, and designed for international users.
• Contribute to scope, estimate, and plan design and research efforts.
• Solicit feedback and contribute constructively to design reviews.
• Support the vision for the product's creative identity, articulate it clearly, and guide the team through its implementation.
• Evangelize design thinking and lean UX.
• Emphasize and advocate for users.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience designing software as an interaction, user experience, or product designer from start to finish as a part of a cross-functional team.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, HCI, or other related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Strong user experience or interaction design experience.
• Excellent visual design skills.
• Expert knowledge of responsive design and mobile UI.
• Expert knowledge in Figma and design system.
• A knowledge of design processes and methodology.
• Excellent written, verbal and visual communication skills to articulate concepts, feedback and rationale and promote design led initiatives.
• Ability to influence and persuade around design concepts.
• Ability to lead and integrate the design thinking process in fast-paced, high-visibility environments.
• Competency in interaction design, prototyping, visual design, data visualization, design strategy & planning, UX research, information architecture, and workshop facilitation.
• Experience in design processes, methodology, and lean UX (rapid discovery, prototyping, testing, and iteration).
• Experience in designing AI/ML products, reporting and data analytics, dashboards, and data visualization.
• Familiarity with agile environment.
• Experience with HTML/CSS and JS.
• Strong product design portfolio to demonstrate the above qualifications.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with large data sets/volumes of information.
• Enterprise SaaS experience.
• Experience in legacy system transformation.
• Experience in designing within a large product organization.

Benefits

• Short-term and long-term incentive programs based on eligibility.
• Robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.