Senior Product UX Designer

📋 Description

At Zyte, we eat data for breakfast and you can eat your breakfast anywhere and work for Zyte.

• Founded in 2010, we are a globally distributed team of over 240 Zytans working from over 28 countries who are on a mission to enable our customers to extract the data they need to continue to innovate and grow their businesses.

• We believe that all businesses deserve a smooth pathway to data.

• Role Overview: We believe that exceptional design is at the heart of every successful product, and we’re looking for a Senior Product Designer with a strong focus on UX to join our growing team.

• If you're passionate about user experience, enjoy solving complex design challenges, and want to make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you.

• As a Senior Product Designer, you will take ownership of major design projects, leading UX research, strategy, and execution.

• You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and stakeholders, to shape user experiences from concept to launch.

• Your deep understanding of user-centered design principles, combined with your leadership and mentorship abilities, will ensure the creation of innovative, intuitive, and user-friendly products.

🎯 Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead UX Design Initiatives: Own the end-to-end UX process for key projects, from discovery to delivery, ensuring the creation of intuitive and impactful experiences.

• User Research: Plan and conduct qualitative and quantitative research, including user interviews, usability testing, surveys, and competitive analysis to inform design decisions.

• Prototyping & Wireframing: Create wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity designs to communicate design solutions clearly and efficiently to both stakeholders and developers.

• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to translate user needs and business objectives into engaging product features and seamless experiences.

• Design Systems: Contribute to the evolution and maintenance of our design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across products.

• Usability Testing: Lead usability testing sessions, analyze results, and iterate on designs based on user feedback and data-driven insights.

• Stakeholder Communication: Effectively communicate and present design concepts, progress, and research findings to stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

• Stay Current: Keep up-to-date with design trends, tools, and emerging technologies, and apply best practices to continuously improve the product’s user experience.

Requirements:

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in product design, with a focus on UX and demonstrable experience of your work on complex, user-centered design projects.

• Design Tools: Proficient in design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Figjam, Miro, Sketch or Adobe XD.

• UX Expertise: Strong understanding of UX methodologies, usability principles, and interaction design. You have a user-first mindset and are skilled at creating seamless, intuitive experiences.

• Problem-Solving Skills: Proven ability to tackle complex design challenges and simplify them into elegant solutions that meet both user and business needs.

• Research Skills: Extensive experience with user research, testing, and data analysis to inform and validate design decisions.

• Collaboration & Communication: Excellent collaboration skills and the ability to clearly communicate design rationales, decisions, and ideas to a diverse range of stakeholders.

• Agile Mindset: Experience working in agile environments and being able to iterate quickly and efficiently based on feedback and changing requirements.

• Leadership & Mentoring: Experience mentoring and supporting junior team members, fostering collaboration, and contributing to a positive team culture.

Nice to Have:

• Mentorship: Support and mentor junior designers, providing guidance, feedback, and fostering a culture of growth and learning within the design team.

🏖️ Benefits

By joining the Zyte team, you will:

• Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team.

• Have the freedom & flexibility to work remotely.

• Get the chance to work with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools.