Sr. Product Designer

ABOUT SLICKDEALS:

Welcome to Slickdeals, the home of the best deals on the internet every single day. A community of shoppers posts and upvotes the best of the best to create a space where  millions of savvy shoppers discover and share amazing deals. Slickdeals combines purpose, innovation, and a one of a kind user experience to deliver the most trusted deal sharing platform in the market. Slickdeals is the ultimate entertainment shopping experience. Whether you're looking for that new tool set, video game, perfect gift or even an all inclusive vacation package, Slickdeals has it all.

OUR MISSION:

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to ensure that designs are technically feasible and aligned with product goals.
• Create detailed wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that effectively communicate design concepts and interactions.
• Conduct user research and usability testing to validate design decisions and improve user satisfaction.
• Work closely with the development team to ensure that designs are implemented to the highest standard.
• Continuously improve and iterate on designs based on user feedback
  and product goals.
• Contribute to the development of design systems and maintain design libraries to ensure consistency across products.
• A valued seat at the table for defining the design team, processes, and operations
• Contribute your design thinking skills to other areas of the platform (Research, Product Education, Customer Success, etc.)
• Craft beautiful UI that is functional and delightful. Consistently meet high quality visual design. You can evolve UI styles for an existing design system.
• Establish critical strategic and operational goals; develops and implements new products, processes, standards or operational plans to achieve strategies.
• Accuracy, conciseness, and clear communication. In addition, you have an inclusive mindset and can juggle other's perspectives along with yours. 
• Effectively translate brand guidelines into a design system, from colors, to typography to iconography.

SKILL SETS:

• Advanced design principles (typography, layout, color theory, etc.)
• Figma, photoshop, illustrator
• Wireframing
• User flow mapping
• Interaction Design
• End to end prototyping
• User research & strategy
• Analytics & heat mapping methods
• User interviews

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of 5+ years of product design experience for cross-platform web and mobile applications
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent education/experience
• Experience designing and shipping an end-to-end product with complicated flows, multiple scenarios and edge cases
• Proven ability to empathize with and build solutions for users
• Ability to provide design variations and rationalize your design choices
• Ability to organize and communicate your thoughts and motivations with different audiences
• Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and long term visions
• Self-motivated and able to efficiently run a project without close supervision
• Love to discuss designs in groups, participate in design critiques, reviews and workshops
• Your process is well-defined and consistently leads you to successful solutions. You justify all design decisions with data and move fast through the Discover, Define, Develop, and Deliver phases
• Passionate about using data and user research to inform design decisions
• Experience in ad monetization use cases is a plus
• A keen eye for UI and visual design

LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA or San Francisco, CA

This position will have a hybrid schedule, visiting the Los Angeles or San Francisco office two to three times a week.