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Lead Product Designer/ UX Designer (Native Mobile Apps)
Lead Product Designer/ UX Designer (Native Mobile Apps)TekWissen • Columbus, OH, US
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Lead Product Designer / UX Designer (Native Mobile Apps)

Lead Product Designer / UX Designer (Native Mobile Apps)

TekWissen • Columbus, OH, US
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Job Title : Lead Product Designer / UX Designer (Native Mobile Apps)

Location : Columbus Ohio 43230

Duration : 5 Months

Job Type : Temporary Assignment

Work Type : Remote

Payrate : $ 65.00 - 70.00 / hr.

Overview :

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below job opportunity is to one of Our clients who is a global leader in personal care and home fragrance, including top-selling collections for fine fragrance mist, body lotion and body cream, 3-wick candles, home fragrance diffusers and liquid hand soap.

JOB DESCRIPTION

  • We are looking for an experienced, process-minded designer that can work independently and help set UX direction on cross-functional product teams.
  • An ideal candidate for this contract excels in design thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and possesses a firm understanding of industry best practices in native mobile and mobile-first web experiences.
  • They are organized, self-driven, and invested in mentoring and guiding the junior designers on their product teams.
  • Previous experience in eCommerce / working in a Lead Product Designer capacity is a huge plus!

Responsibilities :

  • Collaborating and communicating professionally with internal and cross-functional teams
  • Works well with cross-disciplinary teams, including FEWD, to create functional and engaging product experiences
  • Proficient in communicating direction, design principles, and design specifications
  • Fosters a highly collaborative design process and is trusted by their team to talk through both scope and technical challenges and negotiate thoughtful outcomes.
  • Takes a leadership role in cross-discipline meetings, bringing a design voice to the conversations and building trust between design teams and other disciplines.
  • Creating experience maps, user scenarios, comps, and flows
  • Designs user experiences from low-fidelity sketches to high-fidelity prototypes
  • Creates rapid prototypes to validate design concepts
  • Developing processes and approaches to solving design problems
  • Coordinates multi-disciplinary project teams
  • Communicates design considerations to different audiences, including developers, management, and leadership
  • Uses known methods and anticipates problems to strategize design solutions that meet and exceed business objectives
  • Working well with cross-disciplinary teams
  • Works closely with various teams to gain user insights, identify opportunities, validate concepts, and socialize ideas across the team
  • Collaborates with cross functional teams, including FEWD, to create functional and engaging product experiences.
  • Able to positively influence partners and stakeholders, both directly and indirectly.
  • Presenting work to cross-functional teams and leadership
  • Demonstrates experience executing design practices within Agile software development
  • Collaborates with Project Owners and Business Analysts to build and maintain a product backlog
  • Works closely with partners on the crafting of requirements and user stories.
  • Understands and considers business goals into their design decisions / solutions.
  • Qualifications :

  • Leads are established and experienced practice leaders who actively push processes and conventions, directly contribute to strategy, and take ownership for their team's work.
  • Experience :

  • Team leads are organized leaders who have extensive experience in leading the delivery of successful work and have contributed to or led work on multiple shipped products.
  • They demonstrate the ability to drive change, improve workflows, and shepherd their team's initiatives.
  • They can plan and execute the work according to current priorities and are able to deliver solutions that meet requirements and constraints while maintaining high standards of quality.
  • Communication :

  • Team leads have exceptional communication skills.
  • They can clearly and confidently communicate decision-making rationale to their team, large groups, and organizational leadership.
  • They can express complex ideas in a persuasive and succinct manner, educate partners, tell compelling stories, and keep their leadership informed of critical information they have identified.
  • Relationships :

  • Team leads have strong relationships with their peers and stakeholders.
  • They can influence partners, manage those relationships effectively, and reduce friction.
  • They build long-term strategic relationships and operate from a holistic perspective that accounts for multiple teams.
  • Leads can be flexible and manage stakeholders' expectations. Leads are equipped to facilitate difficult discussions within the team or with other stakeholders with confidence.
  • Presence : Leads are the cornerstones of the team and act as resources, mentors, and role models for more junior members.
  • Leads set the example for how to be "present" in a remote work environment.
  • Leads take an active interest in the development of their teammates and make themselves available as a resource for feedback, guidance, and support for the rest of the team.
  • Accountability :

  • Leads take responsibility for the team's ability to deliver quality work on time.
  • Leadership :

  • Leads foster a highly collaborative design process and are trusted by their team to talk through both scope and technical challenges and negotiate thoughtful outcomes.
  • Takes a leadership role in cross-discipline meetings, bringing a design voice to the conversations and building trust between design teams and other disciplines.
  • Able to positively influence partners and stakeholders, both directly and indirectly.
  • Required Experience :

  • 8+ years hands-on designing product experiences or general UX design
  • Previous experience working on a cross-functional product team in an Agile environment
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
  • Experts in navigating and leveraging a heavily cross-functional environment
  • 1+ years mentoring other designers
  • Bonus Qualifications
  • Understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other front-end code frameworks
  • Experience designing native mobile apps
  • Experience in ecommerce
  • Working knowledge of design research methodologies
  • TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

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