Product Designer II

The Opportunity 

Our Product Designer is a hands-on position. You will focus on creating an intuitive user-experience for multiple enterprise applications and work with a cross-functional agile product team to deliver world class solutions for our clients, customers and fellow employees. You practice an evidence-based, user centric process to understand who they are, what motivates them, and how they interact with our suite of products. The Product Designer plays a key role in defining more efficient and intuitive workflows leveraging emerging technologies in machine learning, with a goal to deliver end-to-end software solutions for portfolio applications. 

You are: 

• Energized by working in autonomous, self-organizing, cross functional teams 
• Detail oriented, accountable, and continuously improving your process and craft 

• Fluent in design process  
• Experienced in delivering high volume, high profile, or award-winning digital products 
• A team player with no room for ego, bias or the need to push personal opinions  

Responsibilities  

• Navigate ambiguity with questions and curiosity, and contribute to early product definition. 
• Understand the business of Berkadia 
• Lead visioning and conceptual exercises; establishing POV and future state 
• Collaborate with product partners in defining product requirements and identifying business value in all efforts 
• Participate in foundational user research and data synthesis 

• Discovering unmet user needs with multiple research methods and synthesis 
• Facilitating group ideation workshops, collaborating with and guiding stakeholders, SMEs, engineers and other designers. 
• Create elegant solutions exemplifying simple, smart transactions and workflows 
• Iterate design deliverables quickly with a Lean mindset, from low-fidelity flows to mid-fidelity wireframes to high fidelity visuals 
• Design and conduct usability tests and synthesize results 

• Contribute to an agile product squad with the engineer, architect and product manager.  
• Assisting in defining and maintaining a design system across the product portfolio. 
• Working to produce high quality deliverables through all phases of the project. 
• Being an active partner in creating a design culture of human centered innovation. 

What you will need to be successful in this role  

• At least 3 years of product/UX design experience 
• Experience contributing to the successful launch of web, mobile, and/or software applications as a product/UX designer. 

• Proficient using Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD or equivalent design platforms 
• Understanding of design systems 
• Mastery of human-centered design 
• Demonstrate empathy and strong communication skills  
• Strong self-direction and sense of accountability 

• Open minded, curious, considerate, a positive attitude with leadership ability 
• Strong communication and relationship building skills 
• Adept at building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet goals 
• Attention to detail and driven by quality to craft compelling, pixel perfect solutions  
• Exceptional presentation skills to communicate clearly and effectively  
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent 

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