Lead Product Designer

About us:

Clients are mostly mid-sized companies in Victoria.

What this job is:

We are adding a Lead Product Designer to our operations team. This role owns design for a set of customer workflows that are currently confusing and slow. We want them simpler. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need some overlap with Australian Eastern time in the mornings. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

In your first few months you will:

• Partner with content design on microcopy and error messages
• Present work in design critiques and respond to feedback
• Run usability tests with customers, moderated or through Maze or UserTesting
• Review implemented UI with engineers and file polish tickets
• Apply accessibility standards for color contrast, focus order and touch targets

About you:

• 7+ years of product or UX design experience on digital products
• Understanding of interaction design principles and usability heuristics
• Ability to explain design decisions to non-designers
• Working knowledge of WCAG accessibility guidelines
• Portfolio showing process, not just final screens
• Used to working directly with engineers in an Agile team

Preferred:

• Dovetail or another research repository
• Basic HTML and CSS

Benefits:

Salary range: $167,000 to $187,000 per year

• Long-term engagement
• Paid time off
• Monthly internet allowance
• Flexible hours

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Lindenbeam Academy.