Sr. Product Designer - TrainingPeaks - Peaksware

Are you ready to work on a product impacting millions of people? At TrainingPeaks our user base of athletes and coaches is growing rapidly. To meet their demands TrainingPeaks needs innovators, collaborators, and excellent engineers like you. Together we’re building the world’s best training platform. Join TrainingPeaks today.

You may know us as TrainingPeaks, MakeMusic, TrainHeroic and Alfred Music. All these brands are under the Peaksware umbrella. TrainingPeaks develops software for coaches and athletes to track, analyze and plan endurance training. TrainHeroic develops software solutions for the strength and conditioning needs of coaches and athletes. MakeMusic develops software to transform how music is composed, taught, learned and performed. Alfred Music creates and publishes educational music to help teachers, students, professionals and hobbyists experience the joy of making music.

We would love to have you join our ever-growing team! All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of gender, race, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical disability, religion, or length of time spent unemployed.

General Summary

As a Senior Product Designer, first and foremost, you are a designer. You will be designing intuitive, meaningful and elegant design solutions for our coaching SaaS platforms and consumer athlete based product offerings. Your designs, guided by your intuitive experience in product design and informed by qualitative and quantitative research data will set the tone for a cohesive branded experience across our product offering. You’ll partner with your team engineering leader and product management from the kickoff of a project to the delivery of value to our customers. Discovering new opportunities and testing our assumptions with designed prototypes narrowing down to laser-focused incremental value delivery. You’ll be working alongside other designers providing guidance and initiating effective collaboration for raising the competencies of the team.

You are a continuous learner with a hunger for knowledge. You approach challenges as opportunities to improve. You value team members’ input from all levels and you actively seek ways to support your colleagues.

You will be embedded with the Product Team, work in close collaboration with the Product Manager, enabled by the UX Designer, and report to the Director of UX.

Core Functions 

• Guiding several diverse design approaches and validating the right solution with prototypes, validation testing and quantitative/qualitative customer research.
• Driving collaboration with Product Managers to define user problems and produce designs during all stages of the product life cycle — from the discovery of opportunities to the delivery of customer value.
• Facilitating collaboration for conceptual ideas, design rationale, and the specifics of the user-centered design process.
• Partner with Product Managers and Engineers to make product and design decisions inducted by research findings, market trends, business goals, and product design sense.
• Transforming divergent low-fidelity wireframe concepts, rapidly progressing into high-fidelity UI prototypes including design interactions, platform conventions, best practices and design rationale while narrowing down scope to validated solutions.
• Leading design reviews, communicating interaction design concepts to help define development requirements for the best product experiences.
• Pushing the bounds of visual language and experience elements, grounded in visual design principles.
• Assisting engineers in shipping high-quality experiences with detailed design specs, design reviews and regular communication.
• Mentoring within the broader design team to share feedback, maintain our design system and elevate overall product quality and design efficacy.
• Initiate user research initiatives, using quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate the usability of design solutions and reduce our assumptions.

The work characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 7 years experience conducting UX research and design.
• Facilitation of human-centered design principles and data-driven design strategies for mobile and web applications.
• Familiarity and usages of usability testing and customer research methodologies.
• Organizing and leading design reviews and workshops with cross-functional team members including, the Product Manager, UX Designer, and Software Engineers.
• Expertise with product design fundamentals such as, visual design principles, platform human interface guidelines, prototypes, mockups, pattern libraries and the use of industry standard tools, such as: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Miro, and various design systems.
• Proven experience in developing design systems and style guides.
• Superior knowledge and execution of best practices and platform specific design/UI patterns for mobile and web app platforms.
• Strategizing with a Product Manager to set the expectations for research and design priorities to guide the team’s backlog priority, working collaboratively and independently.
• Effective design execution within an agile product development team.
• Design portfolio that reflects your ability to solve mobile and web design challenges using UX experience strategies, UI affordances, and visual design sensibilities.

Desired Qualifications

• Expertise in visual experience design with demonstrative examples of design principles (layout, typography, color theory, composition) and motion design concepts.
• Established designs supporting SaaS products and product led growth in consumer and business based markets.
• Passion for sports performance fitness tech.
• High level of contribution to the growth of the Product Design Team by providing guidance and mentorship.
• Expert proficiency in industry standard user research and analysis tools such as: UserZoom GO, Optimal Workshop, Maze, and SurveyMonkey.

Degrees are not required, and we value all forms of continued education including traditional four-year degrees, post-graduate degrees, associate degrees, bootcamps, online training, professional certifications, self-teaching, and more.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Don’t worry. We still want to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Benefits

Compensation

Peaksware/TrainingPeaks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role is $107,065 - $178,441. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills, and certifications.

This role is eligible for variable compensation, including bonus.

Benefits and Perks

Health

• 100% company-paid Medical for employees with buy-up options
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Paid Parental Leave
• Teladoc
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Additional coverage options such as accident and critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity

Disability and Life

• Company-paid Short Term Disability
• Company-paid Long Term Disability
• Company-paid Basic Life Insurance and AD&D
• Employee-paid Supplemental Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse, and/or Child

Additional

• 401(K)
• 401(K) Matching
• Pet Insurance
• 9 paid holidays annually and unlimited Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• Free TrainingPeaks, TrainHeroic, MakeMusic accounts, and Alfred Music product
• Access to the Performance and Recovery Center (PARC), our on-site fitness facility
• Employee only access to on-site locker rooms and showers
• Employee only access to secure, indoor bike storage
• Access to our onsite Music Studio
• An assortment of “grab’n go” fruit and snacks as well as on tap cold brew, kombucha, and beer.
• Beautiful onsite cafe that includes indoor and outdoor seating and lounge areas.
• Access to e-bikes available exclusively to Peaksware employees
• Significant investment in resources for employee growth and development
• Corporate discounts on select gym memberships and top brand gear
• Flexible work schedule in a culture of trust

Please contact careers@peaksware.com if you require a reasonable accommodation to review our website or to apply online.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment that is well-lighted, heated, and/or air-conditioned with adequate ventilation and a noise level that is usually moderate. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers and filing cabinets.

All employees must comply with all safety policies, practices and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to your manager and/or Human Resources.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and move about the facility; use hands to handle, or feel; talk by expressing ideas by means of the spoken word; and hear by perceiving the nature of sounds. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

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