Lead Product Designer at iSoftTek Solutions Inc

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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.