Lead Product Designer
Braintrust
Product, Design
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Posted on Jan 4, 2025
Job Description
As a Lead Product Designer - UI/UX, you’ll be responsible for designing products and features that directly impact the consumer experience. Designs innovative solutions by collaborating with all involved teams and supporting new and existing features across multiple applications. Involved in leading innovative solutions with a strong and passionate understanding of the end-to-end design process. Considered a subject matter expert for multiple programs/systems.
You will be a design leader across a 14-person design team that sits within the internal agency-of-record for the company. The design team manages over 40+ digital experiences across various lines of business and partners with several cross-functional development and delivery teams to bring these amazing experiences to our customers. You will act as a bridge to the UX Research team, the Product partners, and other design Leads across the design organization.
What Our Lead Product Designer Ui/Ux Enjoy Most
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE TEAM
Experience:
- Location: Denver, CO (preferred), or any of the other cities listed on the job description. Hybrid work model
- Contract length: 1 year with strong potential of converting to a full-time Direct Hire employee
- Culture fit Interview
- Portfolio Review
- Final Interview/Design Challenge
As a Lead Product Designer - UI/UX, you’ll be responsible for designing products and features that directly impact the consumer experience. Designs innovative solutions by collaborating with all involved teams and supporting new and existing features across multiple applications. Involved in leading innovative solutions with a strong and passionate understanding of the end-to-end design process. Considered a subject matter expert for multiple programs/systems.
You will be a design leader across a 14-person design team that sits within the internal agency-of-record for the company. The design team manages over 40+ digital experiences across various lines of business and partners with several cross-functional development and delivery teams to bring these amazing experiences to our customers. You will act as a bridge to the UX Research team, the Product partners, and other design Leads across the design organization.
What Our Lead Product Designer Ui/Ux Enjoy Most
- Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
- Bring proven knowledge of user-centered design (UCD) process methods to digital applications from problem definition to launch.
- Be a fierce advocate of UX strategy through quality handoff to development teams.
- Lead the design of mockups to support product requirements.
- Design information architecture and wireframes that both meet business goals and ensure a positive user experience.
- Partner with the wider design team to drive cross-platform consistency.
- Develop, modify, enhance, and implement design specifications and assets suitable for implementation.
- Organize files and follow all established design patterns when applicable.
- Responsible for design and wireframe reviews and brainstorming sessions to help solve problems.
- Partner with the cross-functional team to understand expectations, priorities, and necessary deliverables.
- Lead the greater design team to respond, clarify, or define specific application look and feel.
- Mentor and coach the design team in best practices.
- Organize and assign work to other designers across the team.
- Contribute ideas to improve the overall design and direction of the product.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE TEAM
Experience:
- Digital design experience - 7+ years
- Experience with basic prototyping tools (Figma, etc.) – 3+ years
- Experience with common Interface Tools (Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud) – 3+ years
- Experience with project estimation
- Experience with planning and facilitating user research and usability tests
- Experience coaching and mentoring other designers
- Bachelor's Degree in Design/Art/HCI/Media/Related Field, or equivalent real-world experience
- Proven knowledge of new and diverse UX and visual design techniques
- In-depth understanding of platform-specific nomenclature
- Experience with creating highly-detailed annotated wireframes, user flows, and process flows within consumer applications
- Demonstrates effective time management skills and the ability to be self-directed when needed
- Demonstrates effective client (presentation) communication skills and the ability to present and sell ideas to various audiences (technical and non-technical)
- In-depth understanding of UX best practices
- Strong and proven ability to evangelize the full, end-to-end design process
- Strong and proven ability to lead, mentor, and coach other designers
- Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
- Ability to demonstrate UI and UX design skills via portfolio
- Demonstrated ability to sketch and generate big-picture ideas for early-stage UX work
- Demonstrated ability to deliver against several initiatives simultaneously
- Ability to prioritize and organize effectively
- Ability to fully engage and collaborate with the team
- Full-time
- This position is eligible for our Hybrid Work Policy. Eligible employees can work from home up to one day each week.