Product Designer at SovTech

Responsibilities:

• Work together with product management and engineering to build innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals, and experience
• Participate in all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering
• Develop original ideas that bring simplicity and user-friendliness to complex design roadblocks
• Prepare wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
• Discuss designs and key milestone deliverables with peers and executive level stakeholders
• Perform user research and evaluate user feedback
• Set design guidelines, best practices, and standards
• Stay up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
• The production of high-fidelity prototypes
• Gathering and evaluating user requirements, in collaboration with our Product and Engineering teams, including the adjustment of specs and deliverables to meet product requirements and limitations.
• Working with the Product, Engineering, and Project Management teams to bring new product features to life
• Working as a UX Researcher and utilize a variety of testing techniques to inform and validate the direction of your design.
• Keep abreast of competitors’ products and industry trends.

Job requirements
Experience

Seniority Level: Intermediate

• Demonstrable work experience as a Product/UI/UX Designer.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills make you adept at working to tight deadlines.
• Passionate about all things design, with the ability to demonstrate this through your work and when communicating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Constantly looking to hone your design instinct through user feedback, whether through hands-on user research or designing options for multi-variant testing.
• Proficient in industry-standard tools for producing designs, assets, and clickable prototypes; including Figma.
• Fluent in current UX best practices and usability principles, interaction, and UI design trends.
• Good understanding of front-end development to inform high-quality, implementable solutions. N.B. Programming skills are not a requirement, but certainly beneficial.
• Confident in presenting and promoting your ideas, thinking, and design processes to a wider team, both across Product and Engineering, even with strong-willed and fast-paced teams
• Profound UI design skills with a solid portfolio of design projects
• Experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows, and site maps
• Significant experience with Figma (bonus)
• Strong visual design skills with a good understanding of user-system interaction
• Strong presentational and team player abilities
• Strong problem-solving skills with a creative approach
• A passion to be an incredible Product Designer and design incredible products!

At SovTech, we leverage a range of industry-leading tools to enhance our development process and ensure efficiency. Some of the key tools and technologies you will work with include:

• Jira
• Figma
• Slack
• Gsuite