Staff Product Designer (Contractor)

About the position

As a Staff Product Designer Contractor, you will help ensure quality of our platforms by combining a love for systems, a strategic mindset, and design skills across both UX and Visual to deliver stellar customer experiences across our digital platforms. You are an expert at design strategy, managing projects, and have exceptional craft. You generate ideas based on a product requirements document (PRD) or brief, sketching those ideas and bringing out of the box solutions to life digitally. You are extremely passionate about the user experience and are unwavering in advocating for our customers. The contractor position is a project based and will work closely with the Global Director of Product, based out of our Brooklyn, NY HQ office.

Responsibilities

• Lead product development process end to end, shaping the design and business strategy from initial concept through shipping and beyond
• Design holistic systems, flows, and interfaces that are simple, elegant, and beautiful and produce detailed wireframes, visual compositions, and prototypes
• Visualize and verbalize complex ideas, rationalizing solutions to team and stakeholders, and help continue the process moving forward
• Manage multiple project timelines and size and estimate new design work
• Partner with fellow designers, product managers, and engineers to identify customer pain points, develop robust and efficient solutions, and to bring them seamlessly to life in the real app experience
• Manage our design system and execute on new feature development across our digital platforms

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred, with multidisciplinary background such as psychology, computer science, information sciences, human/computer interface design or commerce/business
• Minimum 7-8 years of experience in a product design, user experience, or equivalent role
• Experienced, innovative and forward-thinking designer who can demonstrate leadership of medium-scale projects from concept to completion—approach, design strategy, systems, and implementation
• Experience creating, managing, and delivering design systems and tokens with engineers
• Proven interpersonal skills, stakeholder relation skills, and ability to work in a team environment
• Strong storytelling with excellent verbal, written and visual communication skills
• High proficiency in the use of tools such as Figma and Principle as well as Adobe Creative Suite, Keynote, and Google Slides
• Experience creating, managing, and delivering design systems and complex products with development partners.

Benefits

• $80—$115 USD per hour rate based on project scope
• This is a freelance, 1099 position with a defined 8-12 week scope and timeline
• This position could be hybrid with 2-3 days in our Brooklyn office, if the contractor would like a physical space to work out of
• Contractor should be available for regular virtual meetings and collaboration with the team