
Lead Product Designer at iSoftTek Solutions Inc. We are looking for an experienced, process-minded designer that can work independently and help set UX direction on cross-functional product teams. . An ideal candidate for this contract excels in design thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and possesses a firm understanding of industry best practices in native mobile and mobile-first web experiences. . They are organized, self-driven, and invested in mentoring and guiding the junior designers on their product teams. . Previous experience in eCommerce / working in a Lead Product Designer capacity is a huge plus! . Responsibilities: . Collaborating and communicating professionally with internal and cross-functional teams . Works well with cross-disciplinary teams, including FEWD, to create functional and engaging product experiences . Proficient in communicating direction, design principles, and design specifications . Fosters a highly collaborative design process and is trusted by their team to talk through both scope and technical challenges and negotiate thoughtful outcomes. . Takes a leadership role in cross-discipline meetings, bringing a design voice to the conversations and building trust between design teams and other disciplines. . Creating experience maps, user scenarios, comps, and flows . Designs user experiences from low-fidelity sketches to high-fidelity prototypes . Creates rapid prototypes to validate design concepts . Developing processes and approaches to solving design problems . Coordinates multi-disciplinary project teams . Communicates design considerations to different audiences, including developers, management, and leadership . Uses known methods and anticipates problems to strategize design solutions that meet and exceed business objectives . Working well with cross-disciplinary teams . Works closely with various teams to gain user insights, identify opportunities, validate concepts, and socialize ideas across the team . Collaborates with cross functional teams, including FEWD, to create functional and engaging product experiences. . Able to positively influence partners and stakeholders, both directly and indirectly. . Presenting work to cross-functional teams and leadership . Demonstrates experience executing design practices within Agile software development . Collaborates with Project Owners and Business Analysts to build and maintain a product backlog . Works closely with partners on the crafting of requirements and user stories. . Understands and considers business goals into their design decisions/solutions. . 8+ years hands-on designing product experiences or general UX design . Previous experience working on a cross-functional product team in an Agile environment . Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience . Experts in navigating and leveraging a heavily cross-functional environment . 1+ years mentoring other designers . Bonus Qualifications . Understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other front-end code frameworks . Experience designing native mobile apps . Experience in ecommerce . Working knowledge of design research methodologies . Qualifications: . Leads are established and experienced practice leaders who actively push processes and conventions, directly contribute to strategy, and take ownership for their team’s work. . Experience: . Team leads are organized leaders who have extensive experience in leading the delivery of successful work and have contributed to or led work on multiple shipped products. . They demonstrate the ability to drive change, improve workflows, and shepherd their team’s initiatives. . They can plan and execute the work according to current priorities and are able to deliver solutions that meet requirements and constraints while maintaining high standards of quality. . Communication: . Team leads have exceptional communication skills. . They can clearly and confidently communicate decision-making rationale to their team, large groups, and organizational leadership. . They can express complex ideas in a persuasive and succinct manner, educate partners, tell compelling stories, and keep their leadership informed of critical information they have identified. . Relationships: . Team leads have strong relationships with their peers and stakeholders. . They can influence partners, manage those relationships effectively, and reduce friction. . They build long-term strategic relationships and operate from a holistic perspective that accounts for multiple teams. . Leads can be flexible and manage stakeholders' expectations. Leads are equipped to facilitate difficult discussions within the team or with other stakeholders with confidence. . Presence: Leads are the cornerstones of the team and act as resources, mentors, and role models for more junior members. . Leads set the example for how to be “present” in a remote work environment. . Leads take an active interest in the development of their teammates and make themselves available as a resource for feedback, guidance, and support for the rest of the team. . Accountability: . Leads take responsibility for the team’s ability to deliver quality work on time. . Leadership: . Leads foster a highly collaborative design process and are trusted by their team to talk through both scope and technical challenges and negotiate thoughtful outcomes. . Takes a leadership role in cross-discipline meetings, bringing a design voice to the conversations and building trust between design teams and other disciplines. . Able to positively influence partners and stakeholders, both directly and indirectly. . Company Location: United States.