Principal Product Designer

Responsibilities

• 🔧 Have design responsibility for a complete product or group of products.
• 🔍 Create forward-thinking, quality deliverables - including but not limited to user/task flows, wireframes, prototypes, and annotations - for complex issues and systems, and mentor other team members to do the same.
• 🧪 Develop user testing strategy and mentor product designers on a user testing framework.
• 🤝 Partner with team members in developing and evolving the visual language, interaction patterns and design system for Vertafore’s products and platforms, incorporating Vertafore’s brand and voice.
• 🎨 Plan and enable design studios, design critiques and other design ideation activities.
• 🗣️ Engage in product definition discussions with Product Managers and Product Owners to identify user needs.
• 🔄 Participate in design reviews, mentoring and learning from other product designers.
• 🤝 Partner with and support team members in conducting user discovery, concept validation, and usability testing.
• 🤝 Build amicable, productive, trusting relationships with partners and team members.
• 📋 Other duties as assigned

Skills

• You’re a leader and an effective communicator that is tactfully direct; you have a nuanced perspective and ask questions to get to the heart of the problem at hand.
• You are passionate about trading “the way we’ve always done it” for “imagine if we could.”
• You have strong knowledge of UX best practices and visual design work for enterprise software, including content-first, mobile-first, responsive design, and accessibility standards.
• You take a goal-centered approach to your UX practice and have a good grasp of design thinking methodologies, using empathy and critical thinking to understand and frame problems.
• You are able to contribute to multiple projects (at various stages) concurrently, meet deadlines, and adapt quickly to changing priorities in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• You value rapid prototyping as a design method and are fluent in both paper and digital prototyping.
• You enjoy sharing your knowledge and expertise with more junior team members by providing design guidance and coaching.
• You can collaborate, negotiate, weighing trade-offs between user impact and levels of effort.
• You thrive on working as a part of a collaborative team, both giving and receiving feedback.
• You have experience with creating and maintaining design systems and/or pattern libraries.

Benefits

• 💰 $150,000 - $170,000 / year

Qualifications

• You have 7+ years of professional experience doing end-to-end UX and UI design in an agency or software setting.
• Your wealth of expertise is demonstrated by a compelling portfolio that showcases your problem framing, research, problem solving, and visualization skills.
• You demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills and an ability to persuasively articulate design rationale.
• You are adaptable and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Your working style demonstrates respect, initiative, ownership, transparency, and accountability.
• You have demonstrated proficiency in Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, or similar design tools.
• You have experience in an agile software environment.

Company

Vertafore

Location

Denver, CO

Salary

$150k - $170k yearly

Salary Currency

USD

Salary Period

yearly

Arrangement

onsite

Category ID

1938

Term ID

1648

Plan ID

1027

Company Website

Vertafore

Application Type

url

Application URL

LinkedIn
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