• Position is hybrid with a minimum of 2 days per week required in office
• Candidates must live within 50 miles of corporate offices located in: Irving TX, Baltimore MD, Evansville IN, Wilmington DE, or Charlotte NC.

Senior Product Designer, User Experience Design

Our client is embarking on a critical initiative to build and scale industry-leading digital experiences for our customers across web and mobile platforms. They're seeking a Senior Product Designer to lead the creation of innovative digital products that will impact millions of customers and drive the success of our digital strategy.

In this role, you will transform complex workflows and information into intuitive user experiences. Leveraging your expertise in Design Thinking, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, facilitate discussions, develop concepts, run design sprints, and build rapid prototypes to harness collective creativity. You'll refine your storytelling skills to effectively communicate your vision and design rationale, ensuring alignment with the broader team. You are someone who thrives in both conceptual exploration and meticulous refinement, with a curious mindset and a passion for shaping the future of design.

About the Role

As a Senior Product Designer, you will collaborate with designers, engineers, and product managers to develop innovative features and refine workflows, enhancing the digital experience. You will demonstrate a strong perspective with the ability to present a design vision and strategy through sketches, storyboards, high-fidelity mock-ups, and prototypes. You can clearly communicate design rationale, logic, and research to support well-informed decisions to executives and other stakeholders across the company. You are a culture carrier, helping to lead, mentor, and work alongside fellow designers to bring this vision to life. You bring your eye for detail and craft excellence to the team, engaging in peer design critiques, providing and receiving constructive feedback to elevate the team's work.

What You Bring to the Team

• A strategic mindset with a systems-thinking approach to simplifying complexity.
• A strong perspective and the ability to advocate for design and inclusive experiences effectively.
• Proven experience collaborating cross-functionally and delivering successful products.
• Ability to produce high-quality work under tight deadlines while adapting to shifting business priorities.
• Deep understanding of Design Thinking principles and best practices.
• Hands-on experience with Design Sprints and Customer Journey Mapping.
• A holistic problem-solving approach, considering multiple perspectives to craft well-rounded solutions.
• A history of mentoring and guiding designers.
• A self-motivated, organized individual who can identify and self-initiate their priorities and continuously seeks improvement.

Required Qualifications and Skills

The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, dependable, and detail-oriented, with a strong drive to work quickly and effectively within a high-performing, cross-functional product team. Our client thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, with teams spread across the East Coast, Midwest, and West Coast. They are committed to the iterative process of discovering and delivering exceptional customer experiences. They are seeking the following:

• 5+ years of experience in Product Design or related fields.
• 5+ years of experience working collaboratively with product, engineering, design, content and user research teams.
• Demonstrated experience shipping products across platforms and across geos as a designer, while coaching others through the process.
• A bachelor's degree in Product Design, Interaction Design, Fine Arts, or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Appreciation for all forms of design and how they collaborate—interaction, visual, content, motion, and research.
• Expert proficiency with Figma, Miro, usertesting.com, Dovetail and other relevant domain software consistent with industry standards.
• Strong portfolio showcasing a range of projects demonstrating your design process, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong systems thinker with experience defining patterns, style guides, performing user testing, and building low and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Solid understanding of software development and how to collaborate with developers.
• Self-starter with exceptional time management and organizational skills with laser-sharp attention to detail and accuracy.
• Solid communications skills and ability to influence stakeholders across the organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Service Design and Service Mapping experience.
• Identified and set platform strategies, envisioned complex user interactions, and inspired teams to push the boundaries of what's possible.
• Can communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
• Preferred experience working in a financial services industry, especially consumer lending.

CC Pace is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local laws.