Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Act-On Software is a marketing automation company serving customers worldwide. The Senior Product Designer will design and improve desktop web application experiences, partner with product and engineering teams, conduct user research, apply AI to design efforts, and own large feature projects from concept through implementation.
Responsibilities
- Partnering with Product Managers exploring design solutions, creating prototypes, and highly detailed UI specifications that engineers refer to during implementation
- Develop and execute research plans, summarize findings, and make recommendations based on that input
- Using AI to assist your design efforts
- Partnering with Engineering teams to keep them informed of what they’ll be working on, understand their concerns and limitations, soliciting feedback and ideas for future iterations, and reviewing the implementation of design work to ensure it's completed as expected
- Contributing to team initiatives to improve the quality of life for yourself and other designers (design system, process improvements, educating designers or other teams on design related topics, etc.)
- Owning large feature projects from start to finish and assisting with other projects as-needed
Skills
- You're curious and aware of how other products and services stand out and routinely ask yourself how you can bring those qualities into your own work
- Experienced designing for desktop web applications where browsers and their capabilities are a familiar canvas to you
- You anticipate how things can fail and proactively design to avoid or limit those outcomes
- A modern visual UI aesthetic that resonates in today's digital age and surpasses the common expectations of productivity software is something that excites you
- Curious about AI and how it can meaningfully contribute to the design process
- You aim to reduce complex workflows into simple ones
- Understand that your ability to visualize ideas makes you the conduit to get stakeholders on the same page
- You crush low bars and set high standards fueled by consistent effort that results in a winning mentality that your peers can't help but notice
- Someone who's familiar working within a SaaS environment with front end software engineers
- A creative type with an online portfolio that demonstrates:
- How you approach design challenges by sharing your design process
- Detailed, high-fidelity mockups of past design solutions with sound fundamental UI skills and it shows in your decisions about layout, color, iconography, typography, visual hierarchies, and use of white space
- Designing digital experiences and workflows in B2B products with an emphasis for the web
- We're looking for a Sr. Product Designer already performing at this level or someone with 5+ years of experience who's ready to take the next step into a senior role
Benefits
- Generous Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
- Flexible time off
- Monthly wellness allowance
- Monthly commuter allowance
- Flexible Spending Accounts for health and child care
- EAP access for you and your immediate family
- 3 weeks paid parental leave on top of state paid family leave, (including for fostering & adoption)
- Paid time off to volunteer
- Disability Insurance
- Life Insurance
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