Sr. Mobile Product Designer
Job#: 2003797
Job Description:
Role: Senior Mobile Product DesignerLocation: REMOTE
Type: Long Term Contract, Opportunity For Hire
We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our Product Design team. The ideal candidate has experience designing for native mobile apps, responsive web design, and contributing to the build/maintenance of Design Systems. This is an awesome opportunity to work with a small, fast-growing Product Design team as a central figure in designing digital product features that our users love to interact with. As we scale our Product Design team and processes, this new role will also work closely with our Lead Product Designer as an essential resource to the build of a new Design System that provides a strong foundation of components, pattern libraries and guidelines documentation.
What you’ll be doing:
- Translate product requirements, concepts, and research into meaningful, engaging designs our client’s millions of mobile app users and enterprise clients
- Design intuitive, elegant flows and experiences as well as low to high fidelity prototypes for native mobile and responsive web solutions
- Ensure designs are created with a focus on accessibility standards and best practices
- Lead and participate in user testing and research
- Provide and solicit feedback from other designers to improve and evolve design best practices and guidelines
- Proactively create and update design documentation to reflect design decisions as part of a team of Product Designers and as reference for the entire Product team
- Collaborate with Product Managers, engineers, and editorial teams to design the user experience, and ensure a smooth development process
- Champion and mature brand guidelines throughout our product portfolio; actively participate in the development of a Design System for our existing digital products including visual styles, components, pattern libraries, and documentation
Must Haves:
- Submit a portfolio (and password if applicable) with your application
- 5+ years of experience designing native mobile apps and responsive web with a strong portfolio of design work, with at least 2+ years in Design Systems
- Expertise in Figma, Sketch, Zeplin, the Adobe Creative Suite
- Experience with creating/maintaining Design Systems components, pattern libraries, and guidelines documentation
- Familiarity with design for Accessibility using WCAG
- Knowledge of Jira, or similar project management software
- Positive attitude and willingness to take on multiple projects at once
- Great instincts and empathy towards users of all backgrounds
- Ability to absorb and apply constructive criticism from peers, clients, and users
- Excellent written and verbal communication, project management, and people skills
Nice to Haves:
- Strong experience with both Sketch and Figma, with experience with Sketch a priority over Figma migration
- Building and maintaining Design Systems
- Experience with assistive technologies, such as screen readers
- Experience with user research, interviewing, and usability testing
- Experience with creating prototypes for user testing
- Great illustration and visual design skills, experience creating vector-based artwork
- Experience in an agile environment, working closely with Product and Dev teams
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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.