Lead Product Designer

Lead Product Designer 

Unqork is a new way to build enterprise software: it's a purely visual, drag-and-drop no-code platform designed to support the scale, complexity, and security that enterprise applications require. Our customers are leaders in insurance, financial services, healthcare, and the public sector. They use Unqork to build custom software faster, with higher quality and lower costs than code-based approaches. Founded in 2017, Unqork reached unicorn status in 2020 with a valuation of $2B. Unqork has been named one of the Best Startup Employers by Forbes, Best Places to Work by Built In, and one of LinkedIn's Top Startups.

The Unqork Product Experience (PX) team is a collective of designers, researchers, and product and design operations specialists united on a mission to expand participation in the software development process. We strive to champion the Unqork user, working side-by-side with cross-functional partners to ensure our platform experience is intuitive, powerful, and delightful. We’re united by curiosity, thoughtfulness, and a desire to learn from each other’s diverse backgrounds. You can find more information about the Product Experience team here!

We’re looking for a systems-minded designer to lead projects, establish the design process and define strategy in a problem space.

What You'll Do:

• You will report to the Head of Design.
• Manage, guide and mentor designers on all aspects of design - from methodologies to execution.
• Inspire the design team and the broader stakeholder teams with long-term vision and strategy.
• Work with the user research team to define research objectives, write research plans and conduct research and be able to use the findings to inform design decisions.
• Partner and collaborate with product management and engineers to support feature prioritization, ideation, problem-solving, and launch activities.
• Create journey maps, user flows, sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and other design artifacts to define and communicate end-to-end user experiences.
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops and problem-solving sessions between Engineering, Product, Marketing and UX, to define design directions.

What You'll Bring:

• 8+ years experience in Product Design at a digital product company.
• An up-to-date portfolio or a case study demonstrating design philosophy, process, and strategic highlights, in addition to end-to-end delivery of a highly complex project.
• Experienced in articulating design decisions to partners and crave feedback to help produce your best work.
• A foundational understanding of UX/UI principles and has the ability to evangelize and use research to drive design decisions.
• Establish priorities that find the balance between benefiting our users, business, team, and all of Unqork.
• Proficiency with various design and prototyping tools (such as Figma, Sketch, Abstract, Framer, Principle, Adobe After Effects)

Preferred Qualifications:
2+ years of people management experience, demonstrating ability to hire and foster growth.
Experience in inclusive and accessible design.

Unqork is an equal opportunity employer, and proud to be committed to diversity and inclusiveness. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability or age.