Lead Product Designer (Freelance)

Job Description

• Lead product development process end to end, from initial concept through shipping and beyond • Design holistic systems, flows, and interfaces that are simple, elegant, and beautiful and produce detailed wireframes, visual compositions, and prototypes • Visualize and verbalize complex ideas, rationalizing solutions to team and stakeholders, and help continue the process moving forward • Partner with fellow designers, product managers, and engineers to identify customer pain points, develop robust and efficient solutions, and to bring them seamlessly to life in the real app experience • Manage our design system and execute on new feature development across our digital platforms

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience minimum in a product design, user experience, or equivalent role • Bachelor's degree preferred, with multidisciplinary background such as psychology, computer science, information sciences, human/computer interface design or commerce/business • Experienced, innovative and forward-thinking designer who can demonstrate leadership of medium-scale projects from concept to completion—approach, design strategy, systems, and implementation • Experience creating, managing, and delivering design systems and tokens with engineers • Proven interpersonal skills, stakeholder relation skills, and ability to work in a team environment • Strong storytelling with excellent verbal, written and visual communication skills • High proficiency in the use of tools such as Figma and Principle as well as Adobe Creative Suite, Keynote, and Google Slides

Benefits

• This is a freelance position with a defined scope and timeline • This position could be hybrid with 2-3 days in our Brooklyn office • Availability for regular virtual meetings and collaboration is required • This is a full-time/40-hour a week freelance position. Please provide a link to your online portfolio as well as any released products or experiences you have contributed to.