Primary Roles and Responsibilities as a Product Designer:
- As a Product Designer, you will research, discover, and create solutions for business problems through an understanding of the business and its end-users.
- Create visual solutions that harmonize functional design with emotional design, and reflect usability, accessibility, brand, graphic design, and human-centered principles.
- Do qualitative research, rapid prototyping, and business value analysis in an iterative agile delivery environment.
- With an obsessive eye for detail, work with Product Management and Engineering to ensure quality fit and finish for product releases.
- Drive all stages of product development- from ideation to delivery.
- Drive user needs and goals into both creative and pragmatic design solutions.
- Work closely with teams of stakeholders, and developers.
- Help the client to understand the value of end-users to their business.
- Practice and evangelize agile and lean design principles.
What you Need to Start the Journey
- Ability to create rapid, iterative, and low-fi prototypes
- Knowledge of tools and concepts around human-centered design
- Qualitative research skills in user discovery
- User testing, storytelling, and translating between business and technical jargon
- Strong business acumen; ability to relate, understand, grasp concepts, and interpret client/user needs
- Work alongside teams of stakeholders, and developers
- Act as an end user advocate
- Help the client to understand the value of end users to their business
- Practice and evangelize agile and lean design principles
- Work in an informal, collaborative, transparent, ego-free culture where your talent is valued over your title
- Develop your career outside of the confines of a traditional career path by focusing on what you re passionate about instead of a predetermined, one-size-fits-all plan
- Make a real impact outside of work by leading and/or contributing to communities within ColoredCow
- Freely voice your ideas and views as part of continuous open and passionate debate
