Digital Product Designer

Who We’re Looking For

Our client is looking for a Digital Product Designer to join their world-class product team and lead their digital design strategy. Reporting into the Chief Product Officer, you’ll oversee digital product designers while working closely with Product Managers, Physical Product Designers, Engineers, and Developers.

The ideal candidate has a track record of designing and delivering innovative digital interfaces and products. You have a keen eye for where complexity can be simplified and you take joy when users love your products. You also understand the power of a small team to move nimbly and make an outsized impact.

Beyond traditional digital interfaces, you should be able to understand where the digital meets the physical.Our client has defined the smart decor category in the smart home and lead the way with new innovative technologies. These new use-cases pose unique challenges you haven’t seen anywhere else. They’re looking for innovative and adaptive individuals for their team who can create the future.

What You’ll Do

You’ll lead our team of digital product designers as well as being an active contributor to bringing future products to life and elevating current products through digital interfaces.

Responsibilities:

• The Product Design Lead will work closely with mobile, full stack, embedded and hardware team to deliver a delightful and stunning product experience.
• Design and mock-up software UI
• Manage our digital product design team
• Work closely with physical product designers, product designers, product managers, and developers to bring designs to life
• Run user research and collect user feedback for pre-production projects as well as products already released to users
• Be an active user of our products to see things through our users’ eyes

Requirements:

• Degree in Design, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Portfolio of work demonstrating deployed applications
• Track record of managing small Product Design teams
• Experience working with smart home or IoT devices a significant asset
• Experience working with physical products in addition to digital ones is an asset.
• Creative problem solving, quality awareness and driven to have an impact