Product Designer

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Position Overview:
Our Product & Technology organization nurtures a dynamic agile work environment full of talented individuals with a variety of thoughts, ideas and backgrounds working in small squads around a shared mission. Guided by our development principles, and a passion for compelling software, we come together to deliver great products and make Paylocity an exciting place to work. Best of all this is a work from home opportunity!
The Product Designer is an integral member of the UX organization and works directly with our product development teams. They partner directly with our Product Managers to understand customer behavior and deliver best-in-class user experiences within the Paylocity product suite. They are responsible for meeting a product team's user experience needs, which may include: Visual Design, Interaction Design, Design System Contributions, Information Architecture, Writing, Quantitative and Qualitative Research and Analysis, and Prototyping. They are creative thinkers and problem-solvers dedicated to putting the user first by learning through rapid experiments and frequent customer feedback loops.
Location: Remote
Reports To: Product Design Manager
Responsibilities:
How we work:

• Curiosity and candor; the quality of the idea wins the day
• Casual, focused, and agile environment operating under our shared principles
• Customers at the center of everything we do
• Small, mission-focused squads with an entrepreneurial spirit backed by enterprise investments
• Consistent routines across stakeholders to ensure complete transparency
• Close working relationship between executive stakeholders and customers

What we offer:

• A compelling mission to elevate payroll and human resources across the backroom and into the boardroom
• Focus on helping our customers automate manual processes, appeal to the modern workforce, and glean insights from analytics
• Lean enabling process that focuses on putting our customers at the center of everything we do
• A commitment to investing in our products, hiring the best talent, and giving them the chance to meaningfully contribute to a vast market opportunity
• Ample opportunity and encouragement to stay current with external training
• A phenomenal talent anywhere culture, where employees can work remotely anywhere in the US and/or work from one of three U.S. offices located in Illinois, Florida and Idaho

During the last three months, you would have:

• Turned broad, conceptual ideas into elegant design solutions centered on our users' success and happiness at completing their jobs.
• Collaborated with Product Managers to develop a basic understanding of the user needs
• Contributed to high-level, strategic conversations across a category with product and executive teams
• Offered and solicited feedback from team members to continually better the design practice
• Identified and applied best practices to common design problems
• Instilled an unwavering commitment to quality in all projects from conception to launch
• Partnered with development and engineering to ensure excellent communication and execution of every project
• Shipped a product, learned from it, and iterated
• Lived our culture and principles and followed standards in executional and operational excellence