Product Designer

Please note: Your application must include a link to your website/online portfolio. 
We're growing! Yext needs a talented Product Designer with 2+ years of SaaS product design experience to augment our Produce UX team. Ideal candidates will have a passion for finding solutions that allow customers to intuitively use our products. They will be skilled at each stage of the design process but always focused on the needs of the customer. Successful candidates will be curious and thorough in their design execution and have a successful track record operating within design systems. Must be inclined to work in team settings, be methodical in making design decisions, and Agile-oriented.
What You’ll Do

• Create mockups and interactive prototypes that build on the foundation of atomic design components to communicate your designs 
• Help vet and prioritize solutions in an iterative and collaborative process
• Help identify and analyze user needs or pain points through participation in user research that flows into design decisions
• Coordinate with engineering teams to provide them with detailed designs and requirements that help with their implementation
• Seek constructive feedback from team members to rapidly produce multiple solutions that lead to better outcomes
• Present product design ideas to cross-functional teams and senior leadership
• Participate in the internal development of our design system and promote its adoption across our company
• Consider our customer’s needs and identify opportunities to pitch product expansion ideas or new features for existing products
• Stay up to date on current SaaS industry trends and market conditions

What You Have

• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment and sharing your work early and often
• Openness to collaboration and receiving feedback from other product designers, PMs, engineers, and stakeholders
• Experience working within a design system or atomic pattern library
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to collect and interpret both qualitative and quantitative feedback
• A well-rounded portfolio of work, demonstrating a strong understanding of SaaS product objectives
• Ability to effectively communicate and persuade others to adopt your design concepts
• Passion for design; not satisfied with the status quo and always thinking of ways to improve
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Dynamic, creative personality, effective at engaging and influencing a variety of audiences
• BA/BS degree in Design (e.g., interaction, graphic, UX, product, industrial, HCI), or a related field or equivalent practical experience
• 2+ years of professional experience as a product or UX designer for SaaS interfaces 
• Proficiency in industry-standard tools like Figma
• Proficiency in organization tools like Slack, Google docs, or Excel 
• A jaw-dropping online portfolio, free of typos

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