Lead Product Designer

Lead Product Designer

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated Lead Product Designer for an opportunity in Minneapolis, MN!

Position Title: Lead Product Designer

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Anticipated Start Date: 12/16/2024.

Please note this is the target date and is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration: 6+ Months.

Job Type: Contract to hire, Remote

Pay Range: $55/hr - $65/hr.

Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.).

Job Description: Globally recognized client is looking to bring on a Lead Product Designer on a contract to hire bases. The Product Design Lead will serve as a leader and contributor for the UX Design team ensuring the team delivers best-in-class digital products. The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. This individual excels at providing both highly analytical and highly creative ideas for a design exercise. This candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative product delivery environment - and, a thorough understanding of contemporary user-centered design methodologies

Primary Responsibilities:

• Leads and manages a UX team, understanding and identifying a project's needs, performing research and analysis, setting objectives and guidelines, liaising with product and business stakeholders, and presenting final experience design solutions and recommendations.
• As a UX leader, it is essential to lead and encourage staff to reach product goals while enforcing the company's policies and regulations
• Expert capabilities in the design and creation of thoughtful, memorable, and impactful user experiences
• Drive full-cycle product design lifecycle exercises to inspire and create conversation about user experience outcomes
• Strong understanding of functional and visual design definition, direction, and execution
• Strong understanding of mobile-first application experiences and impacts on human factors
• Interaction design definition, direction, and execution
• Information architecture and ability to craft an experience based on business goals and objectives
• Design effort level scoping (landscape, scope, complexity)
• Contributing to internal and external relationships as needed per project need
• Strong ability to partner with product and technical stakeholders to understand constraints, limitations, and ability to challenge boundaries
• Researching & applying interaction design trends
• Researching & applying mobile experience best practices
• Perform in an Agile / SCRUM environment, with a proven ability to problem-solve
• Drives and contribute to research efforts: both generative and evaluative studies
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Arts, Graphic Design, Business, Marketing, or related field and/or equivalent experience.

Experience:

• 5-10+ years of experience in user experience design.
• 2+ years of experience in team leadership (with or without direct management).

*Please include a portfolio*

Essential Skills:

• Strong visual design skills
• Awareness and practical understanding of current technologies, and their application and relevance to digital experiences.
• Solid communication and interpersonal skills.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, cross-functional environment.
• Ability to influence others and provide design thought leadership.
• Actively listens, hears, and understands what is said and not said, and with nuanced comprehension of meaning and intent.
• Teamwork: Develops and sustains effective and cooperative working relationships with direct reports, peers, managers and other internal or external stakeholders.
• Flexibility/adaptability (ability to change direction based upon team and stakeholder consensus and manage multiple projects at one time, while meeting aggressive deadlines).
• Experience creating, implementing and using design systems. Comfortable managing a large library of design assets for different platforms.
• Proficiency with tools such as Sketch, Figma, Miro, Mural, Jira and the Agile Methodology., etc.
• Familiar with design thinking and facilitating workshops.
• Accustomed to working the full product design lifecycle.
• Unwavering attention to detail when it comes to visual design as well as asset, file, and layer organization.
• An online portfolio

Benefits:

BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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This posting is not an offer of employment. All applicants applying for positions in the United States must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The submission of intentionally false or fraudulent information in response to this posting may render the applicant ineligible for the position. Any subsequent offer of employment will be considered employment at-will regardless of the anticipated assignment duration.

Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 231569 when responding to this ad.

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