Product Designer

Company Description

At Saatchi we believe in creating ideas that can live anywhere. And we believe that when we work as a team, nothing is impossible. We strive to bring out the best in each other and in ourselves and expect applicants to understand the value of close collaboration. We also believe that creating transformational work requires initiative, an entrepreneurial spirit and a bold commitment to achieving measurable results and business success for the Clients we service.

This is a contract role in office in Los Angeles on a hybrid work week of four days in office.

Product Designers at Saatchi see no boundary between form and function. They are highly strategic, detail-oriented, multi-skilled, and bring a deep understanding of user experience, user interface design, visual design, and even branding. Collectively, they bring these skills together to develop best-in-class experiences for Toyota’s digital products.

Creating digital products requires intense collaboration, internally, and with our clients. Our partners are hands-on and you’ll work directly with them to define problems, develop solutions and prototypes, and bring ideas to market. You’ll also work closely with Product Managers, Strategists, and Developers to create original digital products and services that reignite industries and reshape companies.

Our Product Designers are our experts in creative execution. They work alongside the Sr. Product Designers to develop and execute the creative vision while keeping the user and business needs front and center.

UX Responsibilities:

Deliver Creative Solutions: Work with key stakeholders to determine requirements, articulate user needs, and translate those needs into concepts and elegant interface designs.

Think Strategically: Develop creative solutions that connect the dots between strategic foundations, business goals, and user needs.

Collaborate with Teams: Participate in internal conversations and interviews with key stakeholders to understand and execute business goals.

Craft Powerful Experiences: Collaborate with Platform Creatives, external consultants, and creative partners to deliver meaningful experiences that resonate with audiences, inspire consumers to interact, and service business goals.

Analyze the competition: Assess the competitive landscape while understanding patterns and trends.

Execute Flawlessly: Produce wireframes, sitemaps, user flows, prototypes, decks, use cases, customer journeys and personas (in low and high fidelity) while incorporating refined organization and file management skills.

Maintain Consistency: Contribute to the creation and evolution of our UX pattern library for use across digital channels. Maintain a fundamental understanding of component design best practices.

VD Responsibilities:

Deliver Creative Solutions: Work with the team to shape determine requirements, articulate user needs, and translate those needs into concepts and elegant interface designs.

Think Strategically: Work with UX designers to provide insights that shape creative solutions that connect the dots between strategic foundations, business goals, and user needs.

Collaborate with Teams: Participate in internal conversations and interviews with key stakeholders to understand business goals.

Develop Innovative Experiences: You are one part thinker, one part doer, equally capable of ingesting a client’s business problems, coming up with innovative design solutions and executing beautiful, pixel-perfect designs.

Follow Tech innovation and trends: Keep ahead of the curve in industry best practices as well as new design tech to help continue to innovate the brand.

Execute Flawlessly: Maintain the quality and craft of the VIS designs system within dev-ready design files, prototypes, and presentations while incorporating refined organization and file management skills.

Maintain Consistency: Contribute to the creation and evolution of our visual design pattern library for use across digital channels. Maintain a fundamental understanding of component design best practices.

• Recommended 3+ years of cumulative experience as a user experience designer, interaction…