Product Designer in Charlotte, NC, USA

Seeking a freelance Product Designer out of our North Carolina office. The ideal candidate is an experience designer and design thinker who can simultaneously think both strategically and tactically, with the ability to distill insights from research and leverage (and/or enhance/optimize) an existing design system to rapidly create high-fidelity screens – not wireframes per se, but straight to comps. People with a strong understanding of brand but a focus on usability. Product Designers are familiar with the E2E product development and design process, know the limitations and capabilities of the given platform, but can work quickly and collaboratively with the product manager and product engineers in a multi-disciplinary fashion to work through a backlog in conjunction with the established sprint cadence. Product Designers should understand the benefits of a design system, be able to leverage a design system manager that can allow for easy translation of UI elements to code snippets, and maintain as short a distance as possible between design and development.

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Responsibilites

• Mid or Senior-level creative who has chops in UI design and can work well with CD’s
• Digitally-focused design portfolio with an understanding of UX flows
• Experience working with scalable design systems that are on-brand
• Requires little hand-holding and can self-manage
• Seasoned designer working within a robust team environment consisting of UX, product, and developers
• Able to iterate in a fast-paced environment
• Communicative and presentation skills
• Accepts and provides constructive feedback
• Work across a wide range of design projects. Work closely with creative and project managers to ensure day-to-day deliverables are met.
• Own the work and manage time appropriately to meet established deadlines
• Independently lead work to bring clarity and solutions
• Responsible for executing solid interactive designs that innovate, answer the brief and delight our clients
• Find ways to make complex information and interactions as simple as possible
• Absorb, adapt and convey brand aesthetic
• Develop high quality visual assets, then refine these into complete, functional design systems
• Articulate and present thoughts, creative and innovative ideas
• Be able to sketch ideas and interactions.
• Concepting skills are an added bonus.
• Develop visual hierarchies and effectively visualize key concepts.
• Package up assets for delivery when needed.
• Works well as a team member of a large account, understanding how an interactive team operates and what is expected in critiques and team meetings.
• Research and preparation of presentation materials.
• Experience using techniques such as motion and transitions to fine-tune an interaction design
• Experience working in agile, collaborative environments
• Experience working within modern product development workflows
• Comfort with formal presentations to design and business teams

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience with strong, diverse portfolio with examples of digital UI experiences is a MUST
• High attention to detail in their work.
• Contemporary design style (staying up to date with current design trends)
• Work is heavy in web/mobile/responsive web design
• Must know Sketch
• Experience high-fidelity prototyping tools such as Framer, Principle
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Jira, Slack
• Passionate about understanding (and keeping the team and clients in formed about) current and emerging UX/UI trends.
• A sensibility for the role animation and transitions play in a user experience
• Some experience of user research and usability testing would be a bonus
• Experience in financial services, in particular with wealth management

Required skills

• Sketch, Principle, Adobe CC (Photoshop/Illustrator)

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Temporary

Job function

• DesignArt/CreativeInformation Technology

Industries

• Marketing and AdvertisingInformation Technology and ServicesInternet

Are you looking to pay or is this a collaboration?
Pay to hire someone

Is this ongoing work or a one off job?
Ongoing work

How would you prefer to pay?
Day rate

What’s your day rate budget range? (USD)
$250-350 (Industry average)

Do you have an estimate of the job or project length?
A few months

Are you a company or individual hiring?
Company

Do you have internal sign off on the hire?
Yes

Do you need to hire for a specific city, country or place?
Yes, they need to be at a location (give location in job title)

When do you want to have the freelancer secured by?
2-3 weeks

What is most important for this job?
Quality

How many freelancers do you want to contact you?
4-5

Do you have a job specification or creative brief?
Yes (please enter this in the description)

Does the freelancer need insurance?
Yes

Where did you find Twine?
You contacted me