Multiple roles - Need Immediate
Mohammad Sazid
Hi,
Please check the below positions and reply back with the below details and updated resume if you are comfortable.
Title: Sr. Visual Product Designer
Location: Fremont, CA
Contract: 12+ months
Initially Remote due to Covid-19 Situation
Sr. Product Designer
· Area of Focus – Design system
- Holistic thinker, experience in building efficient scalable systems
- Expert in visual design
Requirements
· You have 5+ years of experience designing successful products, experiences, and interfaces for a range of devices.
· Strong portfolio showcasing problem solving and high design caliber skillset.
· You have experience as lead designer.
· You have extensive native app experience & responsive web design
· Strong visual design sense with clean typography and layout understanding.
· You have proven experience of taking a product end to end, and all the stories that come with the experience; tradeoffs, communication challenges, delays, quality review, exc.
· Have experience visualizing, owning, and executing the creation of product from initial concepts and wireframes, to collaborating with engineers on implementation in an agile environment.
· You make a great thought partner with the cross-functional teams.
· You are an excellent storyteller and communicator.
· You exude can-do attitude and enthusiasm.
Nice to have
· Past experience in Ecommerce a big plus, but not required.
· BA/BS or graduate degree in HCI, interaction design, Psychology, or other related fields.
· ADA certification is a big plus, but not required.
Title: Design Researcher (Principal / Sr. Researcher)
Location: Fremont, CA
Contract: 12+ months
Initially Remote due to Covid-19 Situation
As a Design Researcher of the Product Design team, you will provide breakthrough insights based on the analysis and synthesis of user needs, corporate strategies, enterprise capabilities and market opportunities. You will champion the user, delivering clear point-of-views, telling compelling stories and identifying clear use cases that inform design and strategy.
Responsibilities
User Experience Research
· Provides subject matter expertise in qualitative and quantitative research approaches, methods, and tools
· Works with project teams to identify and lead research needs, design learning plans, research materials and tests
· Leads the creation of customer research plans, screeners, discussion guides, and test plans
· Provides analysis of research related data with actionable recommendations
· Designs and develops research tools and activities according to the unique program/product needs
· Synthesizes research into insights, opportunities and frameworks
· Participates in the development of prototypes and leads the testing
· Coordinates with internal and external research resources where appropriate to maximize existing work and expertise
· Evangelizes research methodologies and approaches across project teams to empower every team member to increase their awareness of user needs
Transformational Design and Research
· Uses a variety of innovation approaches; e.g. design thinking, lean development, to design, develop, prototype, and test innovative products, services, experiences and/or solutions
· Builds insights and frameworks into a cohesive story to drive change
· Creates presentations and meeting materials; utilizing various forms of media - 2D, 3D, and videos
· Partners in the strategy development – connecting new concepts to the current business
· Collaborates with the product team to reframe the original problem
· Enthusiastically encourages the work of the team even when pivoting as needed – accepting of failure while ensuring that impact of learnings are well institutionalized
Qualifications
· B.A. degree required; advanced degree in social sciences; e.g. anthropology, ethnography preferred or relevant equivalent experience
· 4-6 years of diverse ethnography and user research
· Demonstrated fluency in consumer research techniques including ethnography and other primary user research approaches
· Demonstrated experience translating user research into actionable insights
· In-depth knowledge of human-centered innovation approaches; e.g. design thinking
· Demonstrated entrepreneurial mindset; ability to explore opportunities in a structured yet iterative way; experience with lean startup, agile, product model or similar development approaches preferred
· Demonstrated creative problem-solving skills and ability to see possible paths forward that are not clear to others
· Design experience; ability to visualize concepts, create mock-ups/prototypes; experience with design software, e.g. InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop
· Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to interact, negotiate, and influence without authority at all levels of the organization
· Proven ability to think strategically about customer needs, market dynamics, and business impact
· High level of intellectual curiosity and comfort with ambiguity
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Strong sense of urgency and ability to test fast and learn fast
· Entrepreneurial mindset
· Must be a team player, comfortable working in “white space” and with ambiguity; with this new team, roles will evolve and one must be willing to take on incremental responsibilities
Preferred Qualifications
· Conducting quantitative on-line research methodologies with systems, Researching front-end user experience solutions for mobile applications on major smartphone platforms (for example, Android, iOS)
· Masters: Econometrics, Masters: Human Computer Interaction, Masters: Psychometrics
Title: UX Writer (Technical Writer)
Location: Fremont, CA
Contract: 12+ months
Initially Remote due to Covid-19 Situation
Responsibilities
· Lead the charge for customer conversational experience and translate business needs into conversational use cases
· Iterate and experiment to create beautiful, functional and thoughtful conversational designs that delight our customers
· Analyze product metrics such as daily sessions, time-on-page, and goal completion rate in order to evaluate effectiveness of existing copy
· Plan, write and edit conversational dialogue plus create or enhance intent templates for multi-modal experiences
· Work with multi-disciplinary teams. You’ll partner with product designer, engineering, product management (among other stakeholders) to find solutions to deliver value to users
· Develop a deep understanding for how the ABS customer shops and speaks
· Take part in user research (including chat log analysis, contextual interviews, etc.) to uncover user needs, pain points, and behaviors, leading to strategic and actionable product direction
· Be able to articulate experience strategy, opportunities and how usability relates to a larger brand experience to a diverse group of people
· Partner with the Design Team to develop new paradigms and frameworks for new interaction models
· Maintain brand voice and bot personality to create a consistent conversational experience
· Devise and implement a UX content strategy
Qualifications
· B.A. degree and 2 years' design experience OR Master’s Degree and 1 year's design experience OR 4 years' design experience
· Experience working as a Conversational Designer, Linguist, Content Strategist, UX Designer, UX Writer or a relevant field in a consumer-focused business/product
· Strong understanding of experience principles and customer needs such as motivations and behaviors, with the ability to translate them into engaging and actionable deliverables
· Ability to create and present strategic experiences that ladder up into business strategy, goals, and opportunities
· Excellent verbal and written skills to be able to communicate to both technical and non-technical savvy audience members
· Ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines under pressure with little management
· Experience presenting to, and working with, cross-disciplinary teams
· Experience working in an agile and/or lean environment
· Strong working knowledge of tools (e.g. Sketch and InVision)
· Startup experience a plus
· Consumer Software Development, Consumer Software Development - Mobile, eCommerce, Testing Technologies, User Experience or Interaction Design.
Title: Principal Product Designer (Check out & payment)
Location: Fremont, CA
Contract: 12+ months
Initially Remote due to Covid -19 Situation
Responsibilities
· Focus on projects spanning across responsive web & app digital experiences. - Areas of focus: Checkout and Payments - Looking for Checkout Wizard!
· Partner closely with the app & core UX leads.
· Build relationships and collaborate with cross-functional teams such as UX Research, Product Management, Engineering, Business Analytics, Operations and Marketing.
· Effectively communicate your findings to stakeholders and partners at any level.
· Own end to end design process of features and iterations.
· Influence the direction of your part of the journey by identifying and defining new feature opportunities.
· Leading an area of work as an individual contributor while supporting a small team of designers.
Requirements:
· Have 7+ years of experience designing successful products, experiences, and interfaces for a range of devices.
· Have a Strong portfolio showcasing problem solving and high design caliber skillset.
· Design outstanding interaction and interface solutions for which you can clearly articulate your rationale.
· Demonstrate leadership, humility and flexibility in cross-functional discussions that serve to align on smart product decisions.
· Can juggle multiple priorities and navigate between strategic work and detailed execution.
· Strong visual design sense with clean typography and layout understanding.
· You have proven experience of taking a product end to end, and all the stories that come with the experience; tradeoffs, communication challenges, delays, quality review, exc.
· Have experience visualizing, owning, and executing the creation of product from initial concepts and wireframes, to collaborating with engineers on implementation in an agile environment.
· You have extensive native app experience & responsive web design
· You make a great thought partner with the cross-functional teams.
· You are an excellent storyteller and communicator.
· You exude can-do attitude and enthusiasm.
· You have a solid knowledge, experience, and the value of working with a design system.
Nice to have
· Past experience in Ecommerce a big plus, but not required.
· BA/BS or graduate degree in HCI, interaction design, Psychology, or other related fields.
· ADA certification is a big plus, but not required.
Thanks,