Product Designer (Contract)
Overview
Emerge is seeking a Product Designer for our client, atechnology company with a public safety mission.
Qualified candidateswill have at least 5+ years’ of experience in Product Design / UX Design, 5+years’ creating components with a design system, PDQA with development, advancedFigma expertise at a product-focused technology company.
The successfulcandidate will report to the Product Design Manager and be responsible as anindividual contributor for the overall products and services.
Problem solving is your superpower.You can discover the root problem beforeanyone else and know the end-user better than they do.
You understand what customers say may notmatch what they do when interacting with a product.You can take human-centered design principlesand translate them into development language.
You provide coaching opportunities so that product and development teamscan change their behavior to make better, more informed decisions about goalsand requirements.
UX InitiativesYou Will Impact
We're seeking someone passionate about creating and translatingour client's design system from Figma into Storybook components.
Each scrumteam will use the component library to enable scalable, modular components,have a unified language, design consistency, and foster inclusivity.
Byproviding a "blueprint" (e.g. time, tools, resources, accessibility,education, documentation) and anticipating their needs, you ensure thecomponent library can be used effectively by developers.
Job Responsibilities
- Create and produce Figma UI components thatconsist of interactions, design tokens, variants, and UX patterns throughoutall stages of the design pro
- A strong attention to detail and a keen eyefor design aesthetics
- Be the UX sandwich. Provide closecollaboration with UX developers, product designers, and product management onall UX initiatives
- Create and maintain our client’s designsystem, including roadmap and backlog for product design
- Coach others to practice human-centered design
- Identify gaps in UX strategy and innovation todrive change and meet unmet needs of customers
- Provide UX annotations or design specs fordevelopment and product
- Conduct Product Design Quality Assurance (PDQA) / UXreview for development
- You will make decisions in a process light environment, with a lean towards rolling up your sleeves and getting a deep understanding of issues and be seen as someone who is there to partner and lead from the front
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in product design / UX design
- 5+ years of design system experience
- Proficiency with Figma required (advanced expertise)
- Experience in working in an agile framework required. Must know how to manage design system work in Jira
- Must have work experience at a product-focused technology company
- Hands-on experience and understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript)
- Portfolio of design system work is required
WorkEnvironment
- Remote; work from home role
- Monday-Friday work week and must work EasternUS office hours
- Applicants must be currently authorized towork in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis
- Pay range is : $80.00-$90.00 per hour