Senior Product Designer
Our Senior Product Designers have strong design and consulting skills and have demonstrated leadership ability with positive responses and feedback from their peers and team members. They have deep domain knowledge and demonstrate proficiency in multiple areas across the discipline. Our senior designers should aim to support the growth of their team members through mentorship and coaching.
Typical Years of Prior Experience: 5-8
Salary Band: $120,000 – $150,000
Responsibilities & Impact
- Can serve as design lead on projects which includes:
- Making appropriate tool selections, keeping client needs in mind
- Establishing site/application architecture
- Managing the workload and work assignments of other team members while staying conscientious of individuals’ strengths, weaknesses, and goals and playing to these when managing work assignments
- Collaborating with development and/or product leads on scope and definition
- Works effectively with the other leads on a project (product, dev, etc) to lead collaboratively
- Strong design abilities as demonstrated by regular contribution of well architected and design screens
- Can clearly articulate requirements and direction to other members of the team
- Proactively provides feedback to Tandem’s leadership team on processes (hiring, feedback, delivery, sales, etc) to contribute to continuous improvement of the organization as a whole
Technical Skills
- Visual Thinking & Production: Uses typography as a UX tool, able to clearly articulate the ways type selection affects composition, usability, or art direction. Able to challenge or expand existing brand assets to better suit the needs of the client and project. Can identify and implement successful relationships between type families.
- Knows from experience which layout + composition conventions will work or not in a particular scenario.
- Technical Engagement: Work derives from implementation feasibility in HTML + CSS, leads QC/acceptance testing with devs
- Research and Testing: Can craft a custom research process based on identified client profile. Thrives in the research process and can apply research findings to actionable insights or recommendations.
- Research and Testing: Understands how to apply different testing methodologies depending on the product being tested. Crafts a test plan according to recommendations.
- Architecture: Can make tough site architecture decisions. Understands the importance of content, user behavior, mental models and business landscape plays in the decision of an application
Professional & Consulting Skills
- Can successfully plan and deliver large, long-term projects and is adept at negotiating scope tradeoffs with clients
- Explains and advocates for design and business decisions to clients
- Mentors their teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner
- Manages client expectations and can have difficult conversations with clients
- Handles uncertainty within project scope of work and team effectively
