Product Designer

This is a remote position.

Overview

Emerge is seeking a Product Designer for our client, a technology company with a public safety mission. 
 
Qualified candidates will have at least 5+ years’ of experience in Product Design/UX Design, 5+ years’ creating components with a design system, PDQA with development, advanced Figma expertise at a product-focused technology company.
 
The successful candidate will report to the Product Design Manager and be responsible as an individual contributor for the overall products and services. Problem solving is your superpower. You can discover the root problem before anyone else and know the end-user better than they do. You understand what customers say may not match what they do when interacting with a product. You can take human-centered design principles and translate them into development language. You provide coaching opportunities so that product and development teams can change their behavior to make better, more informed decisions about goals and requirements.

 

UX Initiatives You Will Impact We're seeking someone passionate about creating and translating our client's design system from Figma into Storybook components. Each scrum team will use the component library to enable scalable, modular components, have a unified language, design consistency, and foster inclusivity. By providing a "blueprint" (e.g. time, tools, resources, accessibility, education, documentation) and anticipating their needs, you ensure the component library can be used effectively by developers.

 

 Job Responsibilities

• Create and produce Figma UI components that consist of interactions, design tokens, variants, and UX patterns throughout all stages of the design pro
  
• A strong attention to detail and a keen eye for design aesthetics
  
• Be the UX sandwich. Provide close collaboration with UX developers, product designers, and product management on all UX initiatives
  
• Create and maintain our client’s design system, including roadmap and backlog for product design
  
• Coach others to practice human-centered design
  
• Identify gaps in UX strategy and innovation to drive change and meet unmet needs of customers
  
• Provide UX annotations or design specs for development and product
  
• Conduct Product Design Quality Assurance (PDQA)/UX review for development
  
• You will make decisions in a process light environment, with a lean towards rolling up your sleeves and getting a deep understanding of issues and be seen as someone who is there to partner and lead from the front
    

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product design/UX design
  
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