What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Designer position at Saatchi US?
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 role is in office in Los Angeles on a Hybrid work week of four days in office.
Overview
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.
Responsibilities
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.
Qualifications
UX Deliverables
Smooth Handoff Development of wireframes, annotations, landscape analyses, test plans and other creative deliverables adhering to component standards and best practices delivered on time and clearly communicated to stakeholders.
Effective collaboration with internal teams and external stakeholders, firms, brands and vendors. Offer problem definition, strategic goals and solutions.
Problem Solving Understand client business goals and deliver solutions at the appropriate level of fidelity to gain consensus, communicate and execute the idea. Carefully balance the needs of the user with business priorities to continue to push solutions that offer the best experience for both.
Process Engagement Break solutions into epics and user stories to be developed through agile sprints. Estimate hours for stories and manage your time within the sprint. Write, edit and review user stories.
Creative Brainstorming Sketch ideas and participate in brainstorms or collaboration sessions. Breakout Wireframes, Landscape analysis, audit, test plans, and annotations.
Support the Design System Support the building of reusable components and other building blocks in our shared digital design library.
VD Deliverables
Smooth Handoff Development of dev-ready files and annotation, prototypes, presentations, and other creative deliverables adhering to component and style guide standards and best practices delivered on time and clearly communicated to stakeholders.
Effective collaboration with internal teams and external stakeholders, firms, brands and vendors. Offer problem definition, strategic goals and solutions.
Problem Solving Understand client business goals and deliver solutions at the appropriate level of fidelity to gain consensus, communicate and execute the idea. Carefully balance the needs of the user with business priorities to continue to push solutions that offer the best experience for both.
Process Engagement Break solutions into epics and user stories to be developed through agile sprints. Estimate hours for stories and manage your time within the sprint. Write, edit and review user stories.
Creative Brainstorming Sketch ideas and participate in brainstorms or collaboration sessions. Breakout Wireframes, Landscape analysis, audit, test plans, and annotations.
Development of a Design System Support the building of reusable components and other building blocks in our shared digital design library.
Skills You Will Gain
Start with Why. You will always seek to understand the problem first before defining solutions. ask a lot of questions and look at challenges from many different angles, always looking for a creative solution.
You are curious and motivated by the process. Whether looking to translate inputs into thoughtful solutions or improving our internal process you're always looking for creative solutions and implementing change.
Master Creative Perfection. We pride ourselves in being the leaders in the digital execution of the Toyota brand and always work towards quality and consistency.
Think outside the box. We love ideas that push the creative boundaries. Consistently push new ideas and understand the right time to challenge the status quo.
Be a team player. The best work comes from bringing together creative, strategic, production and client points-of-view to shape the solution. You should actively partner and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams of designers, strategists, business analysts, analytics, product owners and content creators.
Be a strong communicator. You actively show strong thought organization and communication skills internally and externally and use those to help push sell your ideas through and bring them to fruition.
Consistent proven delivery. We always deliver for our Product Owners and users. You are actively engaged in the project ceremonies and consistently deliver polished design thinking on time and to our team standards.
Additional Information
Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.
Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMTTACompliance@publicis.com.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Compensation Range: USD $73,150.00 - USD $107,744.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 8/3/2026.
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 role is in office in Los Angeles on a Hybrid work week of four days in office.
Overview
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.
Responsibilities
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.
Qualifications
- Recommended 3 years of cumulative experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, or similar role.
- Demonstrated, pragmatic execution of projects within a large organization.
- Ability and desire to solve complex product design problems and the strategy skills to deliver best-in-class solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize and present findings and articulate design rationale.
- Exceptional written, verbal, and visual communications skills, and the ability to build a narrative across a range of formats.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented with a track record of meeting short and long-term deadlines in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
- Experience working in an agile or highly-iterative, collaborative environment where people share work daily.
- Strong understanding of industry trends and creative tools.
- Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Principle, Photoshop, After Effects, etc.
UX Deliverables
Smooth Handoff Development of wireframes, annotations, landscape analyses, test plans and other creative deliverables adhering to component standards and best practices delivered on time and clearly communicated to stakeholders.
Effective collaboration with internal teams and external stakeholders, firms, brands and vendors. Offer problem definition, strategic goals and solutions.
Problem Solving Understand client business goals and deliver solutions at the appropriate level of fidelity to gain consensus, communicate and execute the idea. Carefully balance the needs of the user with business priorities to continue to push solutions that offer the best experience for both.
Process Engagement Break solutions into epics and user stories to be developed through agile sprints. Estimate hours for stories and manage your time within the sprint. Write, edit and review user stories.
Creative Brainstorming Sketch ideas and participate in brainstorms or collaboration sessions. Breakout Wireframes, Landscape analysis, audit, test plans, and annotations.
Support the Design System Support the building of reusable components and other building blocks in our shared digital design library.
VD Deliverables
Smooth Handoff Development of dev-ready files and annotation, prototypes, presentations, and other creative deliverables adhering to component and style guide standards and best practices delivered on time and clearly communicated to stakeholders.
Effective collaboration with internal teams and external stakeholders, firms, brands and vendors. Offer problem definition, strategic goals and solutions.
Problem Solving Understand client business goals and deliver solutions at the appropriate level of fidelity to gain consensus, communicate and execute the idea. Carefully balance the needs of the user with business priorities to continue to push solutions that offer the best experience for both.
Process Engagement Break solutions into epics and user stories to be developed through agile sprints. Estimate hours for stories and manage your time within the sprint. Write, edit and review user stories.
Creative Brainstorming Sketch ideas and participate in brainstorms or collaboration sessions. Breakout Wireframes, Landscape analysis, audit, test plans, and annotations.
Development of a Design System Support the building of reusable components and other building blocks in our shared digital design library.
Skills You Will Gain
- How to think through problems strategically and develop solutions at scale.
- Understanding of design for enterprise platforms. A deep understanding and proficient application of design patterns that span across an assortment of use cases.
- Mastery in tools like Figma, Sketch, InVision, Principle, Zeplin, etc., as well as file and folder organization.
- Effective thought organization and practice in presenting your design thinking to stakeholders and other creative leadership.
- Deep understanding of design systems and component design best practices. Consistent application of our design system(s) across projects.
- Ability to help guide other designers in creative thinking and coming up with shared creative recommendations.
Start with Why. You will always seek to understand the problem first before defining solutions. ask a lot of questions and look at challenges from many different angles, always looking for a creative solution.
You are curious and motivated by the process. Whether looking to translate inputs into thoughtful solutions or improving our internal process you're always looking for creative solutions and implementing change.
Master Creative Perfection. We pride ourselves in being the leaders in the digital execution of the Toyota brand and always work towards quality and consistency.
Think outside the box. We love ideas that push the creative boundaries. Consistently push new ideas and understand the right time to challenge the status quo.
Be a team player. The best work comes from bringing together creative, strategic, production and client points-of-view to shape the solution. You should actively partner and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams of designers, strategists, business analysts, analytics, product owners and content creators.
Be a strong communicator. You actively show strong thought organization and communication skills internally and externally and use those to help push sell your ideas through and bring them to fruition.
Consistent proven delivery. We always deliver for our Product Owners and users. You are actively engaged in the project ceremonies and consistently deliver polished design thinking on time and to our team standards.
Additional Information
Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.
Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMTTACompliance@publicis.com.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Compensation Range: USD $73,150.00 - USD $107,744.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 8/3/2026.
Salary : $107,744