Product Designer

Client - A cosmetic giant seeking a product designer in NYC

Job Title: Product Designer

Job Description:

• Our client's Company Experience Design Team, within the Online Division, is looking for a Product Designer to provide best-in-class, accessible, and engaging user experiences for one of our brand e-commerce sites.
• The Product Designer will also create UI assets and propose UX recommendations to help optimize sales conversions for our global sites.
• The ideal candidate has a passion for design, great attention to detail, understands how to take direction & turn it into execution, and can handle multiple projects, quick turnarounds, and is interested in leveraging data-driven opportunities to ensure success across our e-commerce properties.

Essential Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships and operating rhythms with leaders inside and outside their core team to efficiently implement user experiences that are cohesive, inclusive, and well-informed by data.
• A practitioner of universal design principles, design with accessibility guidelines in mind, and advocate across global product and with the brand creative and business teams.
• Collaborate on the global experience design with a focus on ecommerce core experience with designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers, by understanding business needs and product requirements.
• Translate user needs and product requirements into conceptual diagrams, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mocks.
• Develop sound UX concepts, including the definition of customer needs, task analysis, the creation of scenarios and use cases.
• Deliver effective documentation and communication of design – via clear visual presentation and detailed annotation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Digital Design, UX Design, HCI, or related fields.
• 3+ years of experience in UX, and UI design for e-commerce websites
• An online portfolio to showcase your ability to solve complex problems is a must.
• Familiar with Jira and Confluence, prioritizing and managing work in a fast-paced environment.
• Able to play well and thrive in collaboration with our partners and stakeholders.
• Mastery using design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
• Has a "no task is too small" mentality.
• Familiar with setting up usability testing and delivering research insights.
• A clear understanding of WCAG 2.1 requirements and industry best practices around accessibility/inclusive design is a plus.
• Experience with e-commerce and social platforms in the beauty or luxury industry (plus)
• Experience working with research, testing and data/KPI to drive data-driven decisions
• Familiar with building and maintaining digital design system