Product Designer (Contract or FTE)

Momentum Design Lab, an HTEC company; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy over work

Project diversity

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

A leading design agency is seeking a Senior Digital Product Designer for a hybrid role in Silicon Valley. You will work on diverse projects across automotive, health, and technology sectors. The ideal candidate has 1 to 4+ years of design experience, a strong portfolio, and excellent English skills. Join a dynamic team and contribute to innovative design solutions.

Qualifications

• 1 to 4+ years of applicable design experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating pixel-level craft.
• Ability to translate user research insights into actionable strategy.

Responsibilities

• Define user interactions across various devices.
• Create modular, scalable wireframes and mockups.
• Collaborate with teams and clients to achieve design goals.

Skills

Design experience

Written and spoken English skills

Visual and interaction design

Data visualization

Motion design interest

Tools

Sketch

Figma

Job description

Overview

Momentum Design Lab, an HTEC company, is seeking a Senior Digital Product Designer for a 6-month contract with potential for extension. This hybrid role requires onsite presence 3-4 days per week at one of our Silicon Valley offices. Candidates must be based in the U.S. and authorized to work.

Base pay range: $95,000.00/yr - $130,000.00/yr. This range is provided by Momentum Design Lab, an HTEC company. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Portfolio requirement: Please provide a link to your portfolio in your resume or in your work experiences, including the password if applicable. Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.

About us: At Momentum, we help global brands, fast-paced technology startups, emerging software companies, and big tech to solve high-impact business challenges through digital experience design. Our engagements span user/customer research, product strategy, design, and software development. We are user/customer experience obsessed, blending both digital product and service design to create innovative and transformative experiences for their organizations and customers. Our approaches are versatile, and each project may be unique in workflow and deliverables; from innovation sprints to extensive design thinking exercises, we adapt to meet the customer\'s ever-changing needs.

What you could be working on

As a Senior Digital Product Designer, you may work on a variety of challenging projects, including:

• The 10-year vision of a connected cabin experience for a major automotive company
• Solving for the complexities of brain surgery through 3D, VR, and AR
• The end-to-end customer experience for a large telecom
• Modeling hundreds of billions of dollars for a major venture fund\'s portfolio
• Tackling misinformation about pandemics for a global health organization
• Fighting human trafficking and drug smuggling at the US border
• Finding obscure cures to major diseases with NLP
• Cyber security for major US government agencies
• The experience of the next generation of connected smart refrigerators
• Solving for climate change with carbon offsets credits
• An investment strategies platform for a major financial services company

Responsibilities & requirements

• You have 1 to 4+ years of applicable design experience
• You must have excellent written and spoken English skills; this is 100% an English position
• You are a digital product designer with a portfolio demonstrating pixel-level craft
• You enjoy learning about new industries and are a quick study
• You are looking for opportunities to help brands define their character
• You are a solid visual and interaction designer with the ability to translate user research insights into actionable strategy
• You enjoy creating modular, scalable wireframes and mockups that apply consistent interface patterns across various use cases and devices
• You can design using Sketch or Figma and adapt to new tools
• You understand transactional data and have experience with data visualization
• You like reducing friction between the end user and their goals, including exploring AI-enabled solutions
• You have an interest in motion design, 3D, and frontend technologies or a willingness to learn
• You combine empathy with design to create usable experiences
• You are comfortable charting new markets and inventing new industries
• You are capable of collaborating and sharing UX/UI guidelines and design patterns
• You have strong critical thinking to navigate abstract and complex processes
• You understand that working at an agency provides exposure to diverse industries, processes, budgets, timelines, and customer needs
• You enjoy learning from peers and sharing knowledge
• You can clearly express your design decisions, process, and rationale
• You enjoy working with others, collaborating with your team and customers
• You must be able to travel to customer or other work-related locations from time to time (less than 20%)

Additional skills

• Creating and conducting user/customer/stakeholder interviews, solution validation interviews, and usability testing
• Conducting current state assessments inclusive of heuristic evaluations
• Review and parse user research findings
• Understand, conceptualize, create and communicate user mental models, personas, user flows, journey maps, and other information architecture deliverables

Benefits

• Autonomy over how to get your work done
• Project diversity across mobile, IoT, ad platforms, or financial services products
• Occasional travel to clients worldwide, with on-site project kick-offs
• Competitive salary and benefits

Employment details

• Seniority level: Associate
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Design
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting