Product Designer

💻 The role

Product Design is a fast-growing team at Headout of creative, collaborative, strategic people who care deeply about defining new paradigms for our products. You’ll get to work with a cross-functional team {ex: designer, researcher, and writers} working together to build a global travel platform for the users to rely on Headout to create their memorable moments via experiences.

We’re looking for a Product Designer who has the curiosity to get to know our users and the creativity to design world-class user experiences. You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team whose shared mission is to make data analytics highly usable and easily accessible to non-technical users.

🤩 What makes this role special?

• People: You articulate your concepts, vision and decision-making effectively with immediate peers. You never wait to be asked and are always open-minded about your expertise areas. You are objective in evaluating your own work and comfortable in accepting new contexts and roles. You are able to respect and build on others' viewpoints as well.
• Craft: You can take small non-obvious user experiences and find ways to design for them. You are able to communicate reasoning and challenges effectively to the team. You know how the business operates on a high level as well as their core team metrics, and will use that knowledge in daily decisions, with help. You work to observe users regularly. You are able to follow a style guide to produce smaller features and have a good grounding in typography, color and layout.

🎨 What skills & experience do you need?

• You have at least 1 year of experience designing digital products (for Mobile and Web) in cross-functional product teams.
• You are able to work with a team. You gather requirements around functionality and translate them into elegant solutions. You work closely with other junior product designers, Lead UX designers, product managers, developers, and engineers from ideation to implementation on new and existing projects across the platform.
• You know user journeys intimately. Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• You advocate for user experience. You conduct usability tests on all your modules and advocate for bettering the user experience. You take into account the user feedback but also learn from their behaviors to improve our product experience.
• You embody design excellence and consistency. You are no stranger to working with, and contributing to design systems in your day-to-days. This means documenting it well for the entire team.

🥰 Bonus

• You have experience working in a start-up or B2C organization.
• You have some history of working on side/hobby/indie projects.
• You have experience working on Framer/Webflow or know to build seamless prototypes.