Contract Product Designer

About Stable Kernel

Stable Kernel is a custom software and technology firm based in Atlanta, GA. Our in-house product teams work with Fortune 500s to navigate the unknown – that space between an identified problem and a future-focused solution. We strategize, architect, design, develop and commercialize custom software that builds our clients’ businesses. Our growing team needs to add a senior product designer who shares our passion for product innovation.

Ideally, you will have 10 years of experience designing digital products and systems. You will have a breadth of knowledge of what goes into enterprise-level product design, from systems to visuals for mobile, web and IoT products.

About the Role

As a senior product designer for Stable Kernel, you will care deeply about creating valuable, intuitive and beautiful new software products. You will lead product design projects from inception to completion.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business goals into software product experiences
• Define and plan a product’s vision and strategy
• Serve as a skilled storyteller and concept creator
• Lead the product discovery process including: planning, ideation, prototyping, testing and implementation
• Create artifacts throughout the product design process including user stories, user flows, information architecture, sketches, wireframes and visual designs
• Build functional prototypes to validate and test ideas and designs with internal audiences, customers or future end users
• Continuous collaboration with product managers and engineers - from discovery to delivery of a software product 
• Moderate domestic travel will be required for user research or client meetings and presentations

Qualifications

You will thrive in this role if you:

• Have 10 years of experience designing digital products and systems. You have a breadth of knowledge of what goes into product design, from systems to visuals for mobile, web and IoT products.
• Believe in building long-term relationships with your colleagues and clients based on mutual trust and respect for high-quality work
• Fall in love with problems and can’t wait to dig into them
• Drive clarity and definition in ambiguous situations, by knowing what the right questions are to ask, and who to ask them of
• Enjoy being in charge of telling the story, creating the concepts and prototyping the designs
• Have a compelling portfolio of work that demonstrates high-quality UX/UI design work and leadership skills (how to go from a blank canvas to a shipped product)
• Have experience working collaboratively with software engineers to ship a product or feature set
• Know how to design and prototype with one or more of the following product software packages: Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, Zeplin
• Present with confidence (visually and verbally)
• Nice to have: experience with one or more programming languages; an understanding of business and marketing KPIs; interest in industrial design as it relates to mobile devices 

Why you will love working at Stable Kernel

• Health, vision and dental plans at 100% personal coverage
• 401K with above-average company matching 
• Group Life and Short Term Disability Insurance at no cost to employee
• Optional Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account participation
• $3000 annual industry educational budget 
• Paid time off and paid holidays (including a floating holiday) 
• Inclusive “People Before Place” work policy allows you to decide if you’ll work remotely, in our office, or build a hybrid model 

Stable Kernel’s culture is inclusive and expansive. We celebrate diversity in its many glorious forms and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender role orientation, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. However, we will discriminate against those unwilling to comply with the practice of our company values:

• we work with integrity always
• we respect our work and each other
• we are dedicated to life-long learning and sharing
• we stay hungry for new challenges

If you are like-minded in this regard, we hope you will apply. We look forward to meeting you.