Lead Product Designer - The Planet Group

Lead Product Designer (eCommerce)

Location: 100% Remote
Pay Rate: Up to $75/hour depending on experience
Duration: ~12 Months; 40 hours a week

Our client, an established Retailer, is looking for a Lead Product Designer for a 6 month, 40 hour a week role. This could get extended for the right fit. The ideal Lead Product Designer excels in design thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and possesses a firm understanding of industry best practices in native mobile and mobile-first web experiences. They are organized, self-driven, and invested in mentoring and guiding the junior designers on their product teams. Previous experience in eCommerce / working in a Lead Product Designer capacity is a huge plus!

Lead Product Designer Responsibilities:

• Develop experience maps, user scenarios, comps and flows.
• Design low-fidelity to high-fidelity sketches and and rapid prototypes to validate the design concepts.
• Collaborate and communicate with internal teams and cross-functional teams that span from engineering to product.
• Clearly give direction on design principles, best practices, and design specifications.
• Walk team members and partners through scopes of work, technical challenges, and bring thoughtful points of view to the design.
• Lead meetings and brainstorming sessions with team members and stakeholders.
• Develop processes and approaches that solve the business requirements.
• Work with Project Owners and Business Analysts to build and maintain a product backlog through Agile methodology. 
• Be a practice leader and help other designers ensure the quality and standards are met.
• Act as a resource, mentor, and role model for junior team members.
• Take on responsibility for the team's ability to deliver work on time. 

Lead Product Designer Required Skills:

• 8+ years hands-on designing product experiences or general UX design.
• A portfolio showcasing well thought out product design case studies and work.
• Previous experience working on a cross-functional product team in an Agile environment.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• Experts in navigating and leveraging a heavily cross-functional environment.
• 1+ years mentoring other designers or leading a small team.