Job Summary
ownpath Studios is looking for a Senior Product Designer to take ownership of complex product challenges and help shape thoughtful, high-impact digital experiences. You ll work across a range of projects spanning websites, web and mobile applications, and emerging AI experiences, partnering with startups and enterprises across industries such as healthcare, mobility, fintech, and AI. You ll work closely with clients, strategists, engineers, and other designers to define problems, explore solutions, and take ideas from early thinking through to execution. You ll be responsible for driving design direction, making strong product and design decisions, and ensuring a high bar for craft and user experience across your work. This role is ideal for someone who combines strong product thinking with excellent visual and interaction design skills, is comfortable navigating ambiguity and complex stakeholders, and enjoys taking ownership of work while contributing to the growth and development of the wider design team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience designing and shipping digital consumer products, with significant experience in a design agency, consulting studio, or fast-paced consumer tech environment.
- Exceptional Portfolio: A portfolio that showcases your design craft and demonstrates your ability to translate strategic insights into tangible, shipped products with measurable outcomes.
- Strategic Fluency: Proven ability to operate as a strategic partner to Product Managers and business stakeholders, possessing strong business acumen and a solid understanding of technology constraints.
- Mastery of Tools: Expert proficiency in Figma (or equivalent) for design and prototyping, with a strong understanding of how to work within and advance a design system.
- Communication Presence: Superior verbal, written, and presentation skills. You can clearly articulate and defend your design rationale to a room of executives and inspire a team of developers.
- Bonus: Experience working with emerging AI-driven design technologies like V0.
Responsibilities
- Lead Discovery Framing: Partner directly with clients to define the "what" and "why" of a product. Scope, frame, and articulate complex design challenges into clear, actionable project plans.
- Synthesize Visualize: Conduct and synthesize primary user research, market analysis, and business objectives to generate visionary product concepts and compelling narratives.
- End-to-End Ownership: Take full ownership of the design lifecycle, delivering exceptional work from early wireframes and rapid prototypes to polished UI/UX systems ready for engineering handoff.
- Design for Impact: Apply deep knowledge of consumer behavior, interaction design, and visual aesthetics to create intuitive, highly-engaging experiences that move key performance indicators (KPIs) like adoption, conversion, and retention.
- Systemic Thinking: Establish, maintain, and contribute to reusable design systems to ensure consistency, accessibility, and speed across large-scale client projects.
- Technical Collaboration: Act as the primary design liaison with engineering teams, providing clear specifications, validating feasibility, reviewing development output, and resolving implementation issues to ensure design intent is realised accurately.
- Mentorship: Act as a mentor and for project teams, providing constructive critique, guidance, and coaching to junior and mid-level designers.
- Elevate Practice: Help evolve the Studios internal practices, tools, and processes. Actively contribute to our culture of design excellence and continuous learning.
- Thought Leadership: Contribute to content initiatives(breakdowns, articles, talks), and sharing project learnings with the team and for the broader design community.
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