Senior Product Designer
Date: Oct 24, 2024
Location: Austin, US, 78705 Minneapolis, US, 55401 Nashua, US, 3063
Company: Optimizely
At Optimizely, we're on a mission to help people unlock their digital potential. We do that by reinventing how marketing and product teams work to create and optimize digital experiences across all channels. With Optimizely One, our industry-first operating system for marketers, we offer teams flexibility and choice to build their stack their way with our fully SaaS, fully decoupled, and highly composable solution.
We are proud to help more than 10,000 businesses, including H&M, PayPal, Zoom, and Toyota, enrich their customer lifetime value, increase revenue and grow their brands. Our innovation and excellence have earned us numerous recognitions as a leader by industry analysts such as Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, reinforcing our role as a trailblazer in MarTech.
At our core, we believe work is about more than just numbers -- it's about the people. Our culture is dynamic and constantly evolving, shaped by every employee, their actions and their stories. With over 1500 Optimizers spread across 12 global locations, our diverse team embodies the "One Optimizely" spirit, emphasizing collaboration and continuous improvement, while fostering a culture where every voice is heard and valued.
Introduction
The goal of our product designers is to deeply understand our customer’s problems and design solutions to those problems. They are part of the entire product development process, from concept to launch. They work closely with product managers, UX researchers, and engineers to understand the customer problem, iterate on solutions, and ship finished designs to customers.
Job Responsibilities
This role will work with our application experience teams, whose mission it is to make the most accurate and fastest decisions about their business while using experimentation to deliver unbeatable digital experiences.
Knowledge and Experience
- Strong understanding of the user-centered design process, with a proven ability to deliver projects in Figma
- High-fidelity user interface and interaction design skills, with proven experience in data visualization
- Loves to build design prototypes, even better if these are in code
- Open to rapid design iteration, feedback, and experimentation
- Always seeks customer input and understanding
- Ability to connect design decisions back to business goals, and to work with stakeholders across the company to build consensus
- Advocates for the design system and seeks opportunity to improve it
- Exceptional communication skills, and the ability to clearly explain design decisions to anyone in the company
- Able to think at a high level about product strategy and vision (not just 'how it should look' but 'what we should build') as an effective partner for product managers.
- A desire to learn and curious by nature – about people, technology, data, new industries, and the world
- Empathy — for customers and your fellow employees
- A strong portfolio showcasing product design work, which includes data visualizations or analytics examples
- Ability to prototype design concepts in Figma and other design tools
- Experience participating in the complete product development cycle of web apps
- Ability to present cohesive design approaches to non-design audiences (including business, product and technology teams)
- Ability to effectively manager time; work proactively; prioritize tasks and work within deadlines
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Product Design, Graphic Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 5+ years of product design experience.
Competencies
Optimizely is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Optimizely is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
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