YOUR ROLE:
We're looking for a product designer to support our innovative, multi-cloud governance solution. As a product designer, you'll be involved in every step of the product design process, from ideation to implementation.
YOUR DAY-TO-DAY:
- Define and refine the user experience of the Kion application
- Take projects through the entire design process from concept to high fidelity.
- Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to understand a project's requirements and technical constraints.
- Research and advocate for product design best practices.
- Develop a firm grasp on Kion product areas and regularly spend time learning about the cloud management space.
- Work alongside product managers, developers, designers, and writers to understand user needs and help solve complex problems.
- Working across departments to coordinate user research initiatives.
- Use Pendo to gain quantitative insights about user behavior.
- Design surveys, customer feedback sessions, and customer interviews.
- Meet with customers to do discovery, understand their use cases, and get feedback on designs.
- Rapidly ideate and produce multiple UX/UI concepts.
- Work within our existing design system and help to evolve it when necessary.
- Do design crits with the product design team
WHAT WE ARE EXPECTING FROM YOU (I.E., THE QUALIFICATIONS YOU MUST HAVE):
- 4+ years of relevant experience designing and shipping digital products. Outstanding candidates will have experience working on enterprise software.
- A diverse portfolio that showcases:
- Demonstrated understanding of usability principles.
- Strong visual design skills (layout, visual hierarchy, color, type).
- Understanding of information architecture best practices.
- Interaction design examples.
- Clean and balanced aesthetic.
- Experience taking projects through the entire design process, from the discovery phase to low-fidelity, and wireframes to high-fidelity mockups and working prototypes.
- Skilled in design tools such as Figma (preferred), Sketch, Axure, etc.
- Understanding of design system best practices.
- Understanding basic HTML and CSS principles (so you can effectively communicate design specifications and collaborate with developers to implement designs).
- Experience with developer handoff and post-implementation design validation.
Please include a link to your portfolio showcasing relevant work samples. A portfolio submission is mandatory for consideration of your candidacy.
KEY SKILLS:
- A problem solver who can be effective in situations with limited information.
- A self-starter who can proactively identify opportunities for impact even when not assigned to you.
- Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills.
- The ability to articulate and defend design concepts and decisions.
- Willingness to take feedback, learn, and grow.
OUR WISH LIST (I.E., THE QUALIFICATIONS WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO HAVE):
- Experience in the financial, security, and/or compliance space.
- Experience with user research and testing methodologies/best practices.
- Experience with UX writing.
- Bachelor's degree in design, HCI, or a related discipline.
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