Product Designer

W.F. Young, Inc.; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

W.F. Young, Inc. seeks a passionate Product Designer based in Indianapolis, IN. You will shape exceptional user experiences, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and utilize user research to drive impactful solutions. The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of design experience and is proficient with Figma and user-centered design principles. This hybrid position values innovation and product discovery within a diverse and inclusive team environment.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of design experience with strong learning agility.
• Familiarity with Jobs to be Done methodology.
• Experience navigating product discovery in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Manager and Engineering to drive product discovery.
• Conduct user testing to validate ideas with real users.
• Translate research findings into actionable insights for diverse audiences.

Skills

User-centered design principles

Prototyping

User research methods

Design systems

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Figma

Job description

Overview

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. At Elanco, we are driven by our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life and our purpose – all to Go Beyond for Animals, Customers, Society and Our People.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Your Role

We are seeking a Product Designer who is deeply passionate about understanding user needs and driving impactful solutions through continuous product discovery. This role will play a pivotal role in shaping exceptional user experiences for our products. It is central to our empowered cross-functional product teams, collaborating closely with Product Managers and Engineers to shape products that customers love and that achieve critical business objectives.

Your Responsibilities

• Product Discovery: Collaborate with a Product Manager and Engineering Tech Lead to drive the end-to-end product discovery process, from identifying core problems to validating effective solutions, ensuring that solutions are valuable, usable, feasible, and viable.
• Champion User Empathy: Cultivate a deep understanding of users' needs, goals, motivations, and frustrations by actively walking in their shoes. Utilize methods such as user interviews, contextual inquiry, and journey mapping to uncover insights.
• Define and Frame Problems: Synthesize research findings into clear, actionable problem statements (Points of View), ensuring the team focuses on solving the right challenges based on validated user insights.
• Prototype for Learning and Validation: Use prototyping to test ideas, creating prototypes of varying fidelity to quickly test ideas, gain empathy, explore possibilities, and resolve design conflicts.
• Conduct User Testing: Integrate user testing into team workflows to validate and refine ideas with real users and customers. Test whether users could use the product and would choose to use it, iterating designs based on feedback.
• Communicate Insights Effectively: Translate research findings and design decisions into clear, actionable insights for diverse audiences, including senior leadership and cross-functional partners. Use journey maps, personas, and problem statements to convey user experiences, pain points, and opportunities.
• Strive for Simplicity and Consistency: Apply design principles that prioritize usability, ease of learning, and clear interfaces. Align with established UI patterns to reduce cognitive load and build user trust.
• Demonstrated experience: Show experience in product design roles with an portfolio highlighting contributions to product discovery and validation phases of software development.
• User-centered design: Demonstrate understanding of user-centered design principles, including empathy and objectivity.
• Research methods: Proficiency in qualitative and quantitative research methods relevant to discovery, such as user interviews, usability testing, A/B testing, and contextual inquiry, with ability to choose the right method for objectives.

What You Need to Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Required Experience: 3-5 years of design experience with strong learning agility.
• Familiarity: Jobs to be Done methodology.
• Tools: Proficiency with Figma.
• Experience: Contributing to or leveraging design systems for consistency and efficiency in product development.
• Regulated environments: Experience navigating product discovery in regulated environments or with strong internal governance policies.

What Will Give You the Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Ideation and concept generation: Proficiency in exploring a broad solution space and driving innovation.
• Prototyping: High proficiency in prototyping tools and techniques to produce varying fidelity prototypes for rapid iteration, testing, and communication.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills to articulate user needs, design rationale, and research insights to diverse audiences, including executive leadership.
• Agile environment: Experience working in an agile and iterative environment with the ability to refine design solutions based on user feedback and data.

Additional Information

• Travel: Minimal
• Location: Indianapolis, IN Global HQ (Hybrid Environment)

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.