Senior Product Designer

While technology is the heart of our business, a global and diverse culture is the heart of our success. We love our people and we take pride in catering them to a culture built on transparency, diversity, integrity, learning and growth.

If working in an environment that encourages you to innovate and excel, not just in professional but personal life, interests you- you would enjoy your career with Quantiphi!

Candyspace, a QUANTIPHI company, are experts in designing, building and optimising digital products. We create websites, mobile apps and commerce solutions for ambitious organisations investing in growth and digital transformation. We are trusted to deliver by some of the world’s best-known brands, including ITV, Rolls-Royce, Mazda, Mars and Colgate.

Working at Candyspace is about building products that people love. We all work hard to define the sweet spot between customer demand and the needs of the businesses who employ us. And by building products that they all love, we love those products too. To do this you will be part of a diverse and inclusive team of like-minded people, ambitious for themselves and passionate about what they do.

You will work on exciting and challenging projects.

We unite award-winning, human-centred design and engineering with Quantiphi’s global leadership in Generative, Conversational, and Agentic AI. Together, we form an AI-native digital experience powerhouse.

Title:

Senior Product Designer

Reports To:

Experience Director
- Jonathan Kelly

Experience level: 8+ years

Employment:
Full Time

Location:

Boston, Princeton, NJ

Candyspace is seeking a logical thinker and creative problem solver to join the ever-growing UX & Design team. You will be working alongside a cross functional team of UX/UI designers on projects for global clients, assisting the larger scale product design projects and UX/UI activities.

You are knowledgeable in user-centred design, like solving problems and getting deep into the details. You get under the skin of real user needs and balance them with business requirements to create well rounded solutions. You have a creative mind and is not scared to think outside the box to make your ideas stand out, but you combine that with an eye for detail and precision pixels.

Ideally you would have 8+ yrs of experience working in a product team working on a large product that has been rolled out. Coming from either in-house or agency working on constantly evolving products plus smaller tactical projects.

You will play a leading role in helping Candyspace adopt AI within the design practice, exploring how AI tools and workflows can improve research, ideation, prototyping, delivery and team productivity. You will help identify practical use cases, share knowledge across the team, and contribute to building a progressive, responsible and human centred approach to AI enabled design.

You have experience taking part in pitches, crafting solutions from scoping and proposal stages through to final deployment. You can talk fluently about design principles and architect bespoke approaches or sequences of activities to solve specific user needs and achieve specific client goals.

You will be competent in the Agile process of using Jira to manage workflow, rapid prototyping, getting to the bottom of user needs and balance with business needs, being present in and running workshops. Managing and mentoring junior members of the team will also be a priority.

• User research
• Research advocacy
  - Champions research and testing as essential to design practice and mentors others in its application.
• Research & validation
  - Selects appropriate research methods, plans research phases and designs effective interviews, tests and surveys.
• Conducting research
  - Leads interviews confidently, demonstrating emotional intelligence and extracting deep insight.
• Synthesis
  - Independently synthesises complex data into clear, strategic insights and coaches others in doing so.
• Problem definition and ideation
• Mapping
  - Uses mapping strategically to align stakeholders, influence change and redesign services or processes.
• Ideas generation
  - Facilitates advanced ideation sessions, selects…