Senior Product Designer at Kion

YOUR ROLE:

We're looking for a product designer to support our innovative, multi-cloud governance solution. As a product designer, you'll be involved in every step of the product design process, from ideation to implementation.

YOUR DAY-TO-DAY:

• Define and refine the user experience of the Kion application
• Take projects through the entire design process from concept to high fidelity.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to understand a project's requirements and technical constraints.
• Research and advocate for product design best practices.
• Develop a firm grasp on Kion product areas and regularly spend time learning about the cloud management space.
• Work alongside product managers, developers, designers, and writers to understand user needs and help solve complex problems.
• Working across departments to coordinate user research initiatives.
• Use Pendo to gain quantitative insights about user behavior.
• Design surveys, customer feedback sessions, and customer interviews.
• Meet with customers to do discovery, understand their use cases, and get feedback on designs.
• Rapidly ideate and produce multiple UX/UI concepts.
• Work within our existing design system and help to evolve it when necessary.
• Do design crits with the product design team

WHAT WE ARE EXPECTING FROM YOU (I.E., THE QUALIFICATIONS YOU MUST HAVE):

• 4+ years of relevant experience designing and shipping digital products. Outstanding candidates will have experience working on enterprise software.
• A diverse portfolio that showcases:
  • Demonstrated understanding of usability principles.
  • Strong visual design skills (layout, visual hierarchy, color, type).
  • Understanding of information architecture best practices.
  • Interaction design examples.
  • Clean and balanced aesthetic.
• Experience taking projects through the entire design process, from the discovery phase to low-fidelity, and wireframes to high-fidelity mockups and working prototypes.
• Skilled in design tools such as Figma (preferred), Sketch, Axure, etc.
• Understanding of design system best practices.
• Understanding basic HTML and CSS principles (so you can effectively communicate design specifications and collaborate with developers to implement designs).
• Experience with developer handoff and post-implementation design validation.

Please include a link to your portfolio showcasing relevant work samples. A portfolio submission is mandatory for consideration of your candidacy.

KEY SKILLS:

• A problem solver who can be effective in situations with limited information.
• A self-starter who can proactively identify opportunities for impact even when not assigned to you.
• Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills.
• The ability to articulate and defend design concepts and decisions.
• Willingness to take feedback, learn, and grow.

OUR WISH LIST (I.E., THE QUALIFICATIONS WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO HAVE):

• Experience in the financial, security, and/or compliance space.
• Experience with user research and testing methodologies/best practices.
• Experience with UX writing.
• Bachelor's degree in design, HCI, or a related discipline.