Senior Product Designer

Dallas, United States

The Contingent Plan is actively recruiting an experienced product designer for a retail/eCommerce client in the Dallas area. This is a temporary assignment that is expected to last 6 months. The role is 100% remote and there is potential for extension. The role is an immediate need and the client will move quickly with the right candidates.

Responsibilities:

• Own design problems end to end, from initial concept through shipping and beyond
• Create wireframes and prototypes to solve difficult UX problems
• Create brand-level design style guides and libraries consistent with each brand
• Obsess over the details of visual and motion design
• Work with product to define requirements, not just translate them to design
• Identify future opportunities, working as a key thought partner to your counterparts in product, engineering, and merchandising
• Participate in user research and help set up and conduct user testing studies to gain insights on customer needs, goals and mindset
• Ship, measure, and improve your designs based on quantitative and qualitative feedback
• Brainstorm and iterate with your design colleagues to help improve on the whole experience

• 3+ years experience as a product designer
• Ability to tackle sophisticated design problems
• A portfolio of your most influential UI and UX designs
• Effective communication skills through wire-framing and prototyping
• Expert understanding of key impacting details at each stage of the release cycle
• Strong knowledge and experience in eCommerce UI design
• Excellent grasp of the design thinking and prototyping process, including product/interaction/visual, with the know-how to move from pencil on paper to layout to pixel-perfect handoff using tools such as Sketch, Invision, and Zeplin.
• Up to date with modern mobile and web design patterns
• Up to date with ADA compliant design patterns
• Existing work authorization in the US. Sorry, there will be no sponsorship at this time.