Senior Product Designer.

Company:

This organisation creates software that affects everyone in Australia, impacting millions of people on a daily basis. They are on a continual quest to create sustainable and valuable software solutions, and are now looking for a highly empathetic Senior Product Designer to help lead product best practice and scale design capability.  

As a company they understand the balance between collaboration & flexibility and have been successful in developing an environment where you’ll truly be encouraged to succeed, with ongoing career development opportunities and support. 

Role:

Rather than being measured on design output, the Product Design team are measured on the success of the product. You will be responsible for the overall user experience of a product and focus on customers and the creation of customer value. You will evangelize Design and Research Ops and be the UX representative, helping grow and improve capability across the organization. 

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Managers and engineers on product discovery and prioritisation.  
• Interact with users and understand their day-to-day, continually building empathy and then evangelizing user-empathy throughout the business. 
• Incorporate user research and regular usability testing of designs,  validating prototypes and incrementally refining ideas. 
• Uncover new insights on every step of the discovery process, measure test, and learn to continually improve the experience for users. 
• Own and drive the holistic user experience on the customer's end to end journey, optimizing workflows wherever possible. 
• Create lo and hi-fi prototypes for testing and experimentation purposes and once validated take through to hi-fi UI mockups.  
• Facilitate workshops to dive deeper into requirements, problem identification, and brainstorming sessions. 

About You: 

• Proven senior product design experience (and portfolio showcasing experience).
• You have strong product discovery practices, continually bringing the business back to understanding what the user need is. 
• You love working on complex problems and reducing cognitive load for users who spend hours per day on software.  
• Demonstrated experience running collaborative design workshops (e.g. design studio, design sprints).
• Proven UX experience in defining personas and goals, storyboarding and elaboration, and design thinking.
• You understand the value of doing UX research up front and can link the outcomes you have created with the research you conducted. 
• Proven UI experience in creating clear and compelling visual designs and engaging users with practical and beautiful design.
• Experience with design systems, you love the business efficiency they create so you can spend more time solving complex problems. 
• You are all about creating customer value and prioritising outcomes over output. 

If this opportunity sounds like it aligns with what you're looking for in your next career move click APPLY NOW! 

For more information contact Amber Fidler at BLACKROC on 0473 575 274. Alternatively, if this isn’t the right role for you but you’re interested in other opportunities within the UX & Product Design space in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne & Remote then reach out today for a confidential chat!