The Sr. Product Designer role is a key role within our growing Innovation & New Products group. This group is focused on ideating, testing, creating, and scaling new products and innovations to release exponentially more children from poverty. In this role you will lead a the design of an exciting, lovable new product and help the team bring it to market through agile and iterative methods. This includes driving the thinking behind the designs and executing on the details to deliver a best-in-class experience. You will work closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and partner teams to turn transform visionary ideas into a shipping product that delight your neighbors.
What will you do?
Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
Uphold and engage in Compassion’s core Cultural Behaviors..
Role model continual advocacy and working backwards from the customer.
Effectively advocating and designing for the customer through objective data such as market analysis, customer insights, technical constraints/opportunities, and marketing insights.
Take responsibility for the overall end-to-end user experience from the big picture to UI layout specifics
Quickly and thoroughly creating user flows, wireframes, visual designs, and prototypes to effectively conceptualize and communicate detailed interaction behaviors that support decision making and development.
Envision and bring to life intuitive, scalable, and engaging interactions and experiences by leveraging best practices and innovating where needed.
Establish design guidelines, best practices and standards, leveraging up-to-date and emerging design patterns and trends.
Drive consistent design language across the product by maintaining consistency in visual elements and behavior.
Engage in all phases of the product development lifecycle to deliver a loveable product to market.
Partnering closely with product and engineering to plan and balance immediate requirements with long-term, scalable solutions.
Assessing and optimizing the effectiveness of new and existing features by proactively planning, performing, and advocating validation techniques like usability testing, user research, and interpreting analytical data
Presenting design work to UX partners, cross-disciplinary teams, and executive leaders.
Coaches and provides expertise, and may oversee the work of other professionals and support staff in the user experience discipline.
What do you bring?
8+ years Relevant experience working in this or a related field.
Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
Proven experience design and shipping consumer tech products.
Strong passion for working backwards from the customer to create lovable products
Experience in inventing, designing, and launching consumer tech products at large scale (millions of users)
Experience partnering with engineering, design, and operations teams
Experience designing global products
Why work here?
The mission: Join a team that is motivated to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name.
Our benefits: Receive generous paid time off, 10% contribution to a 403(b) retirement fund on top of your salary, excellent healthcare coverage, free short-term professional counseling, and more.
Spiritual growth: Participate in regular chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotionals.