Senior Product Designer

As a Senior Designer at Headway, you’ll be working within a small multidisciplinary team of designers, developers, and product strategists. You'll be working on applications and web projects, although sometimes you'll be guiding your own ship on a smaller adventure.

You'll be working closely with our team and clients to challenge assumptions, create small experiments, in-depth prototypes, detailed specifications, and style guides.

With a high priority on business and user needs, you'll help make decisions that stand up for users to solve their problems and create true value in their lives.

Responsibilities:

• As a Senior Designer at Headway, you are responsible for executing within the Headway design process with a focus on client and user needs including:
• Practicing "craft within context" and providing designers and apprentices advice and guidance
• Driving all design from the outside-in with user story mapping and MoSCoW prioritization
• Assisting with design critiques and QA
• Participating in pairing sessions to help crewmates learn and grow
• Performing QA of both internal design quality and end-user UI/UX
• Conducting user interviews, creating small experiments, in-depth prototypes, detailed specifications, design systems, and validation
• Setting project design direction and following through with successful execution and delivery
• Interfacing with clients during sprint planning sessions and retros to ensure projects are on track
• Leading product/project discovery sessions and workshops with necessary internal and external stakeholders

Requirements:

• You have 5+ years of experience
• You have experience shipping applications for Web, iOS, and Android
• You have experience working with businesses at different levels of maturity
• You have professional knowledge of user-centered design, usability principles, and techniques
• You have the ability to present your work and stand firm for the right reasons
• You have experience working within Agile/SCRUM processes
• You have the ability to think big whilst being detail-oriented and delivery focused
• You enjoy working within multidisciplinary teams with UX designers, visual designers, and developers
• You enjoy communicating and working with developers to solve technical challenges
• You enjoy visualizing and prototyping concepts to varying levels of fidelity to demonstrate and test ideas
• You are passionate with a hunger to design and make things people use every day
• You are organized and self-motivated
• You are an excellent communicator (verbally and written), capable of inspiring colleagues and clients
• You are outgoing, personable, sociable, and easy-going
• You are open to criticism from your team to benefit project development
• You are always eager to learn and to share knowledge
• You are able to deal with pressure and can work in a fast-paced environment
•  You have the ability to develop your own designs with CSS/HTML & Javascript
•  You have experience with interaction prototyping tools like Framer, Invision Studio, Principle
• You have experience designing branding and identity
•  You have experience running or participating in design sprints

Expectations:

• You live by our Guiding Manifesto and embody the core values of Headway
• You are open to criticism from your team and are always eager to learn and to share knowledge
• You have the ability to think big while being detail-oriented and delivery-focused
• You are self-motivated and able to deal with pressure and work well in a fast-paced environment
• You have an outgoing, personable, and sociable attitude
• You have initiative to solve challenges, meet goals, and set new directions based on data
• You are capable of inspiring colleagues and clients
• You have a passion to create useful and valuable solutions
• You prioritize and attend our twice-annual team weeks on-site at our primary office in Wisconsin, or at an awesome TBD destination