Product Designer 3

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated Product Designer 3 Professional Job for an opportunity at Fully Remote, PST Hours!

Position Title: Product Designer 3

Location: Fully Remote, PST Hours

Anticipated Start Date: ASAP

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

Expected Duration: Contract of 06 Months and possibility of extension

Job Type: Contract and Remote

Pay Range: $50 - $54/hr. on w2

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.).

Top Skills Must-Haves:

Minimum 2+ years' experience with advanced Figma usage, including design libraries, shared components, and expert?level workflows.

Minimum 5-7 years' experience applying systems thinking across design ecosystems.

Minimum 2 years' experience with AI?related design tools, paradigms, or workflows, or demonstrated familiarity with AI design frameworks.

Disqualifiers: Candidates with pure UI/graphic design backgrounds without product design, systems thinking, or critical?thinking?driven portfolios will not be eligible. Candidates without a portfolio are also disqualified.

Job Description:

Overview

We are a team of UX professionals spanning Product Design, UX Research, Content Design, and UX Engineering. Together with our PM and Engineering partners, we create product experiences that are trusted, human-centered, and easy to use, enabling our users to manage, protect, and secure their digital environments with peace of mind.

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Security organization accelerates mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Data Security, Compliance, and Data Governance are some of the most significant concerns for enterprises today. Purview has been building momentum in this space over recent years and already establishing ourselves as market leaders in most categories. As part of our evolution, we are innovating at a rapid pace-designing new experiences that span from the security professional to the consumer.

Responsibilities:

As we continue to expand, the Purview UX Team is looking for a passionate and focused Product Designer 2, an influential creator who can contribute to our UX team as well as our product in crafting intuitive experiences that create complex stories that feel effortless. If you are curious, customer-driven, thrive on collaborative cultures, and have a passion for complexity, come join our multidisciplinary team of creatives who are transforming the workplace.

• Defines needs of product designs as the owner for a set of experiences/products based on multiple factors such as user insights and business needs. Identifies needs that are not spoken and includes them in end-to-end design plan and process. Begins to develop a synthesis of user insights and compares with data to identify larger issues that may not be apparent for user desires. Collaborates with product owners and development team members to shepherd end-to-end experiences from concept to ship for products.
• Generates ideation solutions to improve product designs. Utilizes a variety of perspectives when ideating (e.g., business, experience, technology). Synthesizes ideation solutions into a concise articulation of user wants and subsequent solutions.
• Prototypes for new products and features as cheap and as fast as possible. Presents to teams (e.g., Design, Engineering) and/or customers to receive feedback and understand user needs.
• Collaborates with and answers questions from Engineering to aid in successful design implementation and performs question-and-answer forums (QAs) to help them ensure "pixel perfect" or detailed designs. Works with developers to iterate further on designs during implementation to ensure optimal designs. Develops an aptitude on limitations of what is implementable and begins to challenge limitations.
• Creates wireframes, journey maps, user jobs and scenarios, task flows, and personas in support of interaction designs for hardware and/or software-based experiences. Conceptualizes and delivers artifacts at various levels of fidelity. Participates in the development and enhancement of product user experiences via creation of interaction models and detailed designs for new and existing product features while serving as a liaison between users and products. Ensure that the designs of the products allow the user to complete the desired functions in the best possible manner.
• Uses a prescribed design system (e.g., content templates, icons, form design, user-interface [UI] controls, navigation models, design trends). Shares learnings and collaborates with other designers to share education for team improvements.
• Conveys work to peers and managers within their studio team(s) so that the audience understands. Sets context for stakeholders. Helps organize communication with cross-disciplinary teams inside and across through all stages of design and development. Owns communication for what one is doing in a proactive way. Identifies which mode of communication should be used. Manages tonality, being respectful, inclusive, etc. Communicates for a project.
• Recognizes and communicates the user needs to team members and recommends ideas to create a compelling narrative for the product. Explores new and interesting ways of telling stories (e.g., video illustrations, sound).
• Facilitates fundamental tasks on projects with creative team members, program managers, and developers (e.g., the triad/quad) to define and iterate on new and existing product features. Participates on one or more studies at a time and collaborates, creates, and helps the team deliver product design results. Influences team members in support of product design impact. Leverages the work of others. Contributes to the success of others.

  Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in industrial design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 3+ years' experience working in product or service design

• OR equivalent experience (e.g., experience using design thinking to solve problems).

  Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in industrial design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 5+ years' experience working in product or service design

• OR master's degree in industrial design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 3+ years' experience working in product or service design
• OR equivalent experience (e.g., experience using design thinking to solve problems).

• 2+ years' experience shipping products and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process.

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 248107 when responding to this ad.

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