[Remote] Senior Product Designer [210151]

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aquent is partnering with a leading organization dedicated to empowering individuals through impactful systems. As a Senior Product Designer, you will be instrumental in transforming complex challenges into intuitive solutions and directly influencing user experiences while advocating for human-centered design principles.

Responsibilities

• Apply design thinking within complex ecosystems to deeply understand user needs, reframe complex problems, and drive the creation of intuitive, scalable, and human-centered product solutions
• Constantly conduct and synthesize generative, formative, and evaluative research, using methods such as user interviews, usability testing, and surveys
• Facilitate workshops and co-creation sessions to align teams and uncover opportunities
• Turn user, behavioral, and operational data into actionable insights
• Influence prioritization and roadmapping efforts by connecting user needs with business goals and mission
• Champion human-centered and inclusive design principles
• Use strategic storytelling to communicate vision, value, and direction
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to translate concepts into detailed, production-ready designs, creating artifacts such as user flows, sitemaps, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI design
• Apply and contribute to design systems, ensuring visual and functional consistency
• Write and test content using plain language for clarity and accessibility
• Conduct usability tests and A/B tests to validate design decisions
• Perform accessibility audits to meet inclusive design standards
• Design for responsive, mobile-first experiences, and mobile applications
• Experiment with generative AI tools to support ideation and prototyping
• Utilize tools like Figma (preferred), Miro, and Dovetail to design, document, and test work
• Rapidly iterate through daily partnership with product managers, engineers, researchers, leadership, and other stakeholders throughout the design and development process
• Participate in standups, sprint planning, design reviews, and QA cycles
• Translate design decisions into clear specifications for implementation
• Present ideas, research findings, and designs with confidence and clarity
• Contribute to organization-wide design efforts, including shared tools, systems, and templates

Skills

• A strong understanding of design systems, responsive design, and accessibility standards, including designing for web and native mobile platforms
• Comfortable discussing technical constraints and collaborating with engineers to ensure design feasibility
• Experience applying generative and evaluative research methods, along with facilitation skills to lead workshops and co-creation sessions
• Proficiency in information design, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI design, with fluency in tools like Figma, Miro, and Dovetail
• A product design mindset and experience designing for complex, content-rich websites and applications
• Proficiency in design thinking and human-centered methodologies, with the ability to reframe challenges and translate insights into actionable design direction
• A commitment to inclusive, ethical, and user-centered design, with the ability to write and test content using plain language principles
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a user advocacy mindset and the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams
• Curiosity and adaptability—you're self-motivated, continuously learning, and excited by emerging tools and trends, including generative AI
• Self-managing, but also used to working within a team, and highly adaptable to new information, situations, or challenges
• Experience with front-end technologies is a plus

Benefits

• Subsidized health, vision, and dental plans
• Paid sick leave
• Retirement plans with a match

Company Overview

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