About the position
Pointwest is seeking a senior-level product designer to work across its client’s suite of business-critical applications, helping set a new elevated standard for user experience and visual design in the MEDIA industry. This role will work closely with various teams across business units in the end-to-end product process, designing the UX and UI of the products themselves while parallel pathing the evolution of a design system that will create consistency and brand equity across the suite, as well as downstream product design efficiencies. The successful candidate will have a proven background in systems-based product thinking and design, and will have worked within the product agency, technology, data, or media industries.
Responsibilities
- Translate business goals and user needs into strategic product opportunities, and incorporate stakeholder and user feedback.
- Interpret and distill complex strategies and requirements, and visually depict the ideal user experience through information architecture, diagrammatic flows, and varying fidelities of wireframes.
- Express behaviors, interactions, movements, and materials through interactive, high-fidelity prototypes of key concepts using Figma and other prototyping platforms of choice.
- Facilitate design working sessions to explore concept innovation and drive original thinking.
- Create, grow, and maintain scalable libraries of components, modules, wireframes, templates, and prototypes that can be deployed across the multi-device product suite.
- Write dev-ready annotations and functional requirements documentation throughout the design process.
- Integrate accessibility best practices throughout the design process, ensuring the design system meets accessibility requirements to make our products accessible to all.
- Build collaborative relationships with strategy, business analyst, product management, engineering, and project management partners throughout the product process.
- Shape, facilitate, and analyze design research to inform user needs and product requirements.
- Deliver compelling presentations to executive leadership and business stakeholders, effectively communicating the value and impact of design.
Requirements
- Proficiency in software and tools including Figma, Adobe CC, Google Workspace, Airtable, prototyping tools, Jira, and others.
- A deep understanding of how a design language applies across mediums and devices to ensure brand, visual, and interaction cohesion across products, experiences, and marketing materials.
- An innate curiosity and enthusiasm to learn, keeping abreast of industry trends and discipline innovation.
- Exceptional visual and interaction design skills, as well as written and verbal communication skills.
- An ability to work quickly and efficiently when ideating, actioning feedback, and producing final deliverables.
- Keen attention to detail and pursuit of aesthetic excellence.
- Strategic systems-thinking with the ability to go beyond the pixels and design.
- Strong communication skills when collaborating with partners and stakeholders.
- Proven ability to work proactively and autonomously.
- Able to work on multiple design projects across the organization, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and managing time effectively to deliver high-quality outcomes.
- Able to continuously learn about technology that underpins our business-critical products.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience designing enterprise, SaaS, and/or AI-focused products.
- Familiarity with Salesforce’s Lightning Design System.
- Brand and visual design capabilities beyond product.
- Animation and video editing skills.
- Light UX or copywriting skills that can enhance designs.
