Senior Product Designer

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

Job Summary

Responsible for leading the design strategy and execution for complex and high-impact products, driving innovation and excellence in user experience. Spearheads the design process from concept through delivery, collaborating with cross-functional teams including product managers, engineers, and stakeholders. Conducts in-depth user research, defining user personas, and creating sophisticated wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that align with business objectives and user needs. Advocates for design best practices and ensures design consistency across platforms. Strong leadership, strategic thinking, and a deep understanding of design systems and user-centered design principles are essential. Acts as a technical expert in own area within the organization. May work independently or as part of a team on more complex projects. Provides mentoring and guidance to more junior team members. May be responsible for leading a team but does not directly manage people.

Job Description

About the job

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast. 

Job Summary

FreeWheel is seeking a Senior Product Designer based in New York City to help us design and build the global FreeWheel platform. Design thinking is a critical part of the product development process at FreeWheel. We design and develop B2B applications in the advertising space. As a Senior Product Designer, you will work with cross-functional teams in conjunction with product managers, engineers and other product designers to develop and improve FreeWheel applications. You will join a dynamic, passionate, and growing design team that is shaping the future vision of FreeWheel products.

As a brilliant communicator, you'll find surprising new ways to work with colleagues, wherever they are based. You'll bring an inspiring passion for human-centric design and infuse your work with this enthusiasm.

Job Description

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team and collaborating closely with product managers, various internal stakeholders, and engineering, you will work on core products and initiatives, designing concepts, product prototypes and interactions that are clear and validated through feedback and research. 

What you'll do:

• Lead complete projects from initial research and analysis through to delivery

• Ground your work in observations, research and analytics

• Translate high-level ideas into tangible, user-centred requirements

• Coordinate with the rest of the product design team and product managers to create consistent experience language and seamless user flows across products

• Develop workflows, wireframes, visual designs, specifications and interactive prototypes

• Constantly work at creating value by suggesting elegant and simple design solutions that solve problems and seize new opportunities

• Actively collaborate, seek feedback, thoughtfully process it and apply where necessary

• Confidently and articulately communicate design rationale to stakeholders and the wider business

• Consider the strategic impact of design, interrogating the 'why', not just the 'what' and 'how' of a problem

• Contribute to the roadmap - collaborate with the rest of the product team to discover, define, and prioritise design work

• Understand the motivations and drivers of partners and key-stakeholders

• Advocate for user-centric design practices

• Take on a critical role in advancing design excellence, fostering innovation, and ensuring alignment of desig