Product Designer

Job Title: Product Designer
Location: NYC, Hybrid : 3 Day - Tue/Wed/Thu
Duration: 2-months with possible extension

Client is the world s largest professional network, built to help members of all backgrounds and experiences achieve more in their careers. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Every day our members use our products to make connections, discover opportunities, build skills and gain insights. We believe amazing things happen when we work together in an environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging, and that what matters most in a candidate is having the skills needed to succeed. Join us to challenge yourself with work that matters.

We trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a Client office, depending on what s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

Our products help professionals all over the world stay connected, informed, and productive. The client ecosystem is about more than just job hunting. We create and support active communities and enterprise products around sales, marketing, learning, and recruiting.

Why join the team:

Designers are strategic partners, from product innovation and planning to launch
Work and learn with passionate, talented, and supportive people
We work on both consumer and enterprise products and encourage team rotation, so you can stay engaged and keep growing
We're equipped with the best design tools in the business, including Figma, Principle, and Miro
A trusting, open environment helps us do our best work and we have fun together!

We're looking for designers who lead by connecting the dots between user insights, design patterns, and business goals. You will partner and collaborate closely with user research, UX writing, product management, engineering, marketing, and data science. The ideal candidate is also comfortable incorporating motion design and animation into product experiences to enhance interactions, usability, and storytelling. Designing for the world's workforce takes a diverse, empowered team. Come be a part of ours.

Responsibilities:
Effectively communicate conceptual ideas, design rationale and the specifics of user-centered design process
Create holistic design solutions that address business, brand, and user requirements
Work with web developers and engineers to deliver final products

Application Requirements:
To be considered for this position, you must include your portfolio, website or other samples of work.

Basic Qualifications:
BA/BS degree in graphic design, design communication, human-computer interaction, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
Experieance participating in the complete product development lifecycle of web and/or software applications
3 years of experience in user experience design or industry experience (corporate, software, web or agency)

Preferred Qualifications:
Ability to deliver small to medium-scale projects independently and/or owning components of larger projects with support from senior ICs and Managers
Ability to influence decisions on assigned projects by actively engaging and adding value in team discussions
Ability to deliver solutions for structured problems that have few dependencies on other products/teams
Ability to create solutions that consider end-to-end user flows and impacts on adjacent experiences
Identifies opportunities to extend the design system language

Areas of Expertise:
Animation: 4-6 years of Experience
Design: 4-6 years of Experience

Suggested Skills:
Product / UX Design
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Design Systems