Job Summary: Senior Designer
Duration: 2 months
Rate: up to 800p/d
We are looking for experienced Design professionals with exceptional craft expertise and a deep understanding of their subject areas. They collaborate directly within a team and indirectly across a small number of teams to define and execute design details that drive business value.
Key Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of user flows, product features, and underlying technologies across teams and tracks. Understand the larger user and business context of the product area.
- Apply user-centered design concepts, methods, tools, and techniques to deliver high-quality design solutions. Utilize research and data to inform design decisions.
- Create well-researched and data-informed design assets and solutions at a higher volume and velocity than core level designers.
- Take responsibility for overall product design quality within the designated area. Proactively identify and resolve critical issues and bugs across teams.
- Independently complete complex objectives, involving necessary stakeholders. Generate new product ideas and develop tests and processes to evaluate alternatives and recommend solutions.
- Help others to develop, champion, and refine ideas or initiatives that address business and user needs within and outside of the direct responsibility area.
- Exhibit an advanced understanding of the brand, design, and accessibility standards and systems. Ensure adherence to these standards within the designated area.
- Collaborate with peers, leads, and other stakeholders in the tech and product organizations to drive and execute broader-level strategies for product improvement.
- Foster understanding of user-centered design concepts, methods, and techniques within the team and design community. Facilitate ideation sessions and brainstorming relevant to design topics.
- Volunteer to work on projects that solve business and user needs beyond the direct responsibility area. Take on challenging or less popular design tasks.
- Utilize our data tools such as ET and Google Analytics, and guide core designers in using them. Define and use qualitative research topics to deliver solutions aligned with business metrics.
- Actively participate in recruiting and initiatives to grow and strengthen the craft community.
- Clearly communicate design approaches and solutions throughout the development lifecycle, collaborating with multiple teams and disciplines to achieve project objectives.
- Mentor and coach designers within a track, improving their productivity. Offer support and guidance to designers on other teams when possible.
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