About the Job
Creature Studio, an innovative brand, customer experience, and digital product agency, is looking for a Product Designer to join our studio team and serve as a key contributor to the design practice. The Product Designer will play a role in the design direction, processes, and workflows of brand and product design efforts ranging from early-stage startups to enterprise clients. Additionally, this role will work in a fluid environment with strategists, product managers, engineers, content creators, and design leadership to help assess, ideate, validate, and create new business opportunities using design methodologies. The Product Designer should have a finger on the pulse of trends and design innovation, understanding how to create best-in-class software products across industries that connect with influential audiences. This role is perfect for a talented software product designer who is looking for a range of opportunities and understands the role design can play in building successful businesses.
What you’ll do…
Build Products, Build Brands
- Support the creation of thoughtful digital products taken from research to prototype
- Work as part of our design team to identify design problems, devise elegant solutions, inform strategic design, and user experience decisions
- Validate ideas and products through user research or usability testing
- Take smart risks, incorporate feedback, and continually elevate the quality of your work
Support our Incubations through Studio Design Services
- Collaborate with teammates and clients to test and validate business ideas and opportunities
- Develop brand and product experiences to test and iterate marketing and product ideas with key audiences
- Support our client work and internal incubations through on-going design support in marketing, product and sales initiatives
- Help formalize the processes, tools, and workflows of the design practice with a focus on a system-based approach that can be used across the studio and its portfolio companies
- Support the development of design documentation (e.g., style guides, templates, component & pattern libraries) to ensure the successful delivery of brand & digital experiences
- Help drive the POV and design philosophy of the studio by understanding the role of design in the world and the businesses we create
You have experience…
- In a web and/or digital product environment (2+ years preferred)
- Working directly with product managers and engineering teams to turn beautiful wireframes and mockups into delightful and sticky software products for end users
- Supporting primary/secondary research to identify user needs and opportunities
- Translating research-based insights into creative opportunities
- Bringing clarity and structure to complex systems or user experience challenges
- Creating modern design workflows and a working knowledge of front-end technologies
- Prototyping ideas quickly and iterating using tools such as Figma, Framer, Principle, etc.
- Helping to define and conduct usability testing plans
- Creating presentations and pitches for businesses that tell compelling stories
- Supporting design and development workflows for platforms like Wordpress or Webflow
You are…
- A versatile designer that can zoom out to think about overall brand experience and UX or zoom in to create simple UI components or brand assets
- A hands-on contributor who enjoys building things; no job is too small or too large
- Passionate about learning about the world, human behavior, and the motivations that lie beneath the surface
- Curious about the future of design and the role that AI and other technologies will play
- Prolific creator that has a passion for typography, illustration and all aspects of creativity
- An innate problem solver with an ability to tame the complex
- Self-motivated and can work with ambiguity; little or no direction required
- Comfortable balancing multiple projects and being flexible across a variety of industries
- Collaborative, transparent, and intellectually curious with a healthy balance of confidence and humility
- A strong verbal and visual communicator
Additional Requirements for Consideration…
- Based in the United States and authorized to work for a US-Based company
- A portfolio of past work or the ability to share and discuss work samples
- The ability to work remotely for a dispersed team
Salary: Target annual base salary range: $70,000-110,000. Final salary will be determined by the candidate’s experience, knowledge, and skills. The salary reflected does not include equity, annual discretionary bonus, or other benefits offered by the Company, as applicable.
