Principal/Lead Designer

This position reports to the Director of Product Design and your key responsibilities include:

• This role will be a "maker” who works with existing team members to get us off the ground. You'll craft quality, straightforward solutions that are inclusive, scalable, and useful to a broad set of teams. You'll work with developers to streamline the process that moves static design deliverables into code.
• Employ your great strengths in storytelling to present your vision and product design rationale in a compelling, convincing manner to the wider team.
• Build influence across the organization to shape the future of our shared design language and make sure our products express our brand.
• Strong design aesthetic that brings together brand expressions and systems thinking. You practice universal design and believe in inclusion.
• Create an inventory of common patterns and components; identify opportunities to simplify experiences, such as through merging similar elements.
• Flesh out comprehensive documentation of system principles and guidelines and build Figma libraries for system resources.
• Train designers and partners on the design system.
• Experience facilitating Design Thinkingin your cross-functional teams.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to motive teams and partners.
• Find joy in leading by doing. You inspire, coach, and contribute to our team culture.
• A self-starter mindset who is well organized and always looking to improve things.

What we are searching for

Qualifications:

Education/Experience:
10+ years relevant professional experience required, BS/BA degree required, Graduate studies preferred

Communication Skills:

Ability to communicate concepts in a clear and compelling way to audiences of all levels of understanding and levels of seniority

Design Specific Skills:

• 7+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: design system, user experience, information architecture, or visual design.
• Experience developing and growing an enterprise design system.
• A strong strategic mindset and a system thinking approach.
• Proven history of working within a user-centered design process.
• Strong analytical, prioritization, and negotiating skills.
• Advance in design and prototyping tools (eg. Figma)
• Skills such as illustration, photography, animation, data visualization, front-end programming are a plus!

Behavioral Competencies that client is looking for this role:

• Leadership
• Organized
• Assertiveness
• Meticulous
• Integrity & trust
• Managing & planning systems