Lead Product Designer – Digital Solutions

We are seeking the role of the Lead Product Designer. The designer and their work will be partnering with existing health care technology companies to accelerate their growth and developing new products. 

Lead Product Designers are new to people management. They are creative, thoughtful individuals with an expert aptitude for making, prototyping, producing best-in-class experiences, improving workflows, and paying attention to detail. They are passionate individuals that oversee small Product Design teams of up to three (3) people. Lead Product Designers will themselves receive mentorship and guidance as they create career pathing plans, complete performance reviews, and generally assist their team in producing best-in-class experiences.

Design

With full autonomy and while mentoring others,

• A UI/UX Software Engineer who is a natural at understanding human-computer interaction design (HCID)

• Uses human-centered design methods to frame and validate initial concepts, develop early- stage prototypes, and iterate on developed solutions

• Provides advanced human-centered design deliverables on assigned products, including interaction guides, user interface guides, interface design files, wireframes, documentation, and interactive mockups using tools like Figma, InVision, etc.

• Drives UX research on patterns in the market and our users’ habits.

• Define UI and UX strategies based on project’s target goals.

• Implements new and improved design patterns, methods, and processes

• Working knowledge of multiple functional areas such as product management and engineering

• Works around difficult design, resource, time, and technical limitations with ease

• Design, build, and maintain highly reusable JavaScript, HTML and CSS code.

• Advocates for users, considering their needs and wants

• Builds appropriate project plans, goals and work plans to frame early-stage efforts in an

  actionable and relevant way

• Able to lead stakeholder sessions, user groups, and participatory design sessions to capture

  ideas, feedback, and requirements

Leadership

With oversight and guidance,

• Report team progress, needs, and roadblocks to senior and, potentially, executive leadership.

• Draft staffing recommendations to senior and, potentially, executive leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human-Centered Design or related field (i.e., Human-Computer Interaction, Communication/Graphic Design, Cognitive Psychology, Interaction Design, Human Factors, etc.) required or comparable degree or experience. Advanced degree preferred

• A portfolio of expert and multidisciplinary work and that demonstrates both JavaScript proficiency and understanding of SOLID design principles.

• Expert with CSS, CSS extension languages and CSS preprocessor tools

• Expert using HTML and best practices and with responsive design (mobile browsers, etc.) and

  designing for accessibility (A11y)

• Expert in designing interfaces and click-through prototypes for mobile/web applications including complex UX workflows and feature suites.

• 5+ years’ experience as a UI/UX designer and in designing, delivering, and continuously improving consumer-facing products in a marketplace preferred and as a front-end developer using Angular, React, View or other related technology preferred.

• Is visually and verbally articulate; including the ability to lead interactive group development sessions

• No people management experience required