Title: Lead Product Designer

Location:

New York, NY

Duration: 6 months

Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits

Summary:

Lead complex initiatives including those that provide product usability, evaluation, and support to product development teams. Develop and execute customer experience solutions for online applications and websites. Accountable for overseeing the execution of strategic design projects that influence design and strategic direction of the company. Review and analyze complex industry leading user interface design solutions that require the evaluation of multiple factors. Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards. Manage the execution of strategic design projects that influence design and strategic direction of the company. Serve as design advocate with the ability to forecast and assess industry trends and their impact on the company's product design alternatives. Build and enhance working relationships within the information and interface design function and community outside of the company. Provide product usability, evaluation, and support to product development teams. Leads customer experience strategy for platforms and products. Influence roadmaps and business decisions by providing customer experience considerations and participate in roadmap planning and virtual teams. Make decisions in customer experience strategy for platforms and products requiring understanding of the function and compliance requirements. Present designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholder. Influence roadmaps and business decisions by providing customer experience considerations. Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with peers, directs, management and stakeholders to prioritize and plan work based on customer needs and business objectives.
• Adhere to project milestones through design delivery and presentation to stakeholders.
• Provide product usability, evaluation, and support to product development teams.
• Develop rapport with partners, gathering feedback and successfully sharing design strategies.
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
• Guide teams to be more customer-centric and innovative in-order to deliver outstanding new experiences.
• Facilitate productive collaboration with product and technology peers, and other key stakeholders.
• Contribute to the establishment of design guidelines and standards.
• Champion design integrity through adherence to processes and established best practices.
• Identify and assess industry trends and their impact on the company's product design direction.

Qualifications:

• Have experience creating high-impact marketing websites and search engine optimization (SEO).
• Strong UX and Visual design skills and command of common design tools, specifically Figma for creating documentation and prototypes.
• Ability to communicate effectively and persuasively to convey design solutions to a broad range of stakeholders.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to shape and drive work independently.
• Experience designing effectively within a standards-aligned, Agile design environment.
• Experience working with digital design systems, contributing to style guides, and delivering digital assets to development teams.
• Must be detail oriented, well organized, be able to handle multiple projects, and prioritize different tasks.
• Excellent verbal and communication and interpersonal skills.