Thrivent is seeking an accomplished Product Designer to lead their team in crafting intuitive and impactful user experiences across their digital products, enhancing usability and overall user satisfaction.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in a related field, with at least 3 years of experience in user experience, interaction design, product innovation and research in a product development team required.
- Proven experience in leading projects and contributing to the development of multiple shipped digital products.
- Ability to develop processes and approaches for tackling design problems, anticipating challenges, and uncovering quality solutions.
- Demonstrated application of human-centered design with a keen understanding of business and technical impacts on digital design.
- Able to turn research into action that solves the user definition of a problem.
- Extensive knowledge of how to leverage a design system and how to push the boundaries of the design system to achieve product and user goals.
- Relevant agile experience
Responsibilities
- Define new solutions that align to the organization's vision and the needs of users using problem-framing approaches and well-known tools such as Jira and Figma within a product model and agile-like processes.
- Apply best practices to common design problems using human-centered design methods in the digital product development process.
- Address specific product capabilities that need to be solved, such as optimizing a process or improving user engagement, based on direction received from team leads or managers.
- Communicate decision-making rationale confidently to cross-functional team members and senior stakeholders in a clear way.
- Utilize design facilitation skills to foster collaboration within cross-functional teams, and storytelling to build trust and establish long-term relationships.
- Mentor and collaborate with junior team members, providing guidance and support in best practices and methodologies.
- Extensive knowledge of how to leverage a design system and how to push the boundaries of the design system to achieve product and user goals.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Interaction Design, UI/UX Design, Web Product Design, Web Development or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain rationale for design decisions and clarify success metrics.
- Self-directed and proactive, with a passion for driving progress and making meaningful contributions.
- Experience in cross-functional collaboration roles, with a focus on delivering business value.
- Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – Model the Way, Rally the Team, and Deliver Outcomes.
