Product Designer

Apply now: Product Designer, this opportunity is 100% remote. The start date is ASAP for this long-term contract position

Job Title: Product Designer
Location-Type: 100% Remote
Start Date Is: ASAP
Rate: $55-65 Per Hour W2
Duration: Long-Term Contract

• The estimate above represents the candidate's typical compensation range at the time of hire. Several factors may be utilized to determine your hourly rate including but not limited to years of experience and specific skillsets compared to employees in this role. Candidates typically start at the lower half of the estimated range. 
• This role is eligible to enroll in both Mondo's health insurance plan and retirement plan. Mondo defers to the applicable State or local law for paid sick leave eligibility. 

Job Description

You'll work alongside talented and passionate teammates from diverse backgrounds. Together, you'll identify customer problems or opportunities, develop the strategic UX vision, and communicate that narrative across the business. You'll lead a cross-functional team through a user-centered design approach, both hands-on and facilitation. This work will culminate in the execution of user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and user experiences that validate the strategy, hypotheses, and business/user goals.

What You'll Do :

• Utilize user-centered design approaches to define the customer problem/opportunity with cross-functional teams
• Develop concepts, wireframes, and prototypes, through facilitation and hands-on work
• Produce high-fidelity UI deliverables for engineering handoff and collaborate with engineering to ensure design quality in the final product
• Iterate on design solutions based on research and analytics/metrics
• Partner with Product Management to ensure a customer-centric solution from prototype through the release
• Promote design guidelines, best practices, and standards
• Stay current on the research of emerging industry trends and the competitive landscape to provide insight on ways to improve visual design, usability and functionality, and holistic experiences
• Connect design strategy to business results
• Maintain existing UX/UI style guides.
• Partner with the research team to plan, design, and in some cases, conduct research to inform your design decisions
• Be a collaborative, systems-thinker that continues to find ways to evolve and improve how we work
• Deliver user experiences that meet or beat success criteria, driving measurable results such as higher adoption, higher engagement, lifetime value, etc.
• Leverage and contribute to the existing design system, in some cases crafting everything from component level pixels to documentation for implementation and widespread usage
• Contribute to all scrum team ceremonies, representing design
• Provide support and feedback to design teammates to cultivate designs and culture that feel harmonious

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience crafting experiences for complex consumer-facing products or e-commerce companies.
• A current portfolio that demonstrates the ability to tell a concise and compelling story that articulates the thought process behind the design and illustrates your design style.
• The link must be on your resume. The portfolio is as important as your resume.
• Vast experience designing solutions for a variety of users and systems grounded in user, business, and technical insights.
• Driving, defining, and helping establish process.
• Working closely with a software delivery team is required, and agile methodology is preferred.
• Previous JIRA experience
• Excel through ambiguity when given the freedom to ask questions, identify valuable problems to solve, and solve them without strict direction.
• Self-starter with a desire to find and solve problems collaboratively.
• Passionate, positive, and with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Comfortable with critique, collaboration, and co-authorship.
• Experience designing projects with a variety of stakeholders
• Experience designing and prototyping complex workflows with Sketch, Figma, Invision or similar products; Expert-level knowledge of Invision and/or Sketch
• Experience creating UX artifacts from large complex systems (e.g. IA, wireframes, journey maps, etc.)
• A strong curiosity and desire to learn about and empathize with our community of designers and developers
• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovate to achieve great results
• BS or BA degree (or equivalent experience) in Human-Computer Interaction, UX/UI/Design Diploma or Degree, or a related area