Sr. Product Designer, Samsung Ads

Position Summary

Role and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with UX Researchers to understand end-users and stakeholders current workflows and pain points in order to identify their needs. Apply the UX research insights into actionable items.
• Collaborate with the product team to understand and/or define business and product requirements in order to define relevant users’ journey map, steps and tasks while fulfilling their needs.
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness on moderate to highly complex UX problems.
• Collaborate with PMs to iterate on various possible product solutions to answer the business and technical requirements.
• Work closely with other designers, product managers and developers to conceptualize efficient and intuitive wireframes and prototypes covering workflows/steps/tasks for both internal and external users.
• Iterate on designs to arrive at the final product while respecting the Samsung Ads Design System.
• Propose new components and workflows when current ones do not answer the user needs, data and/or technical requirements.
• Collaborate with engineering to validate technical implementation feasibility and limitations.
• Understand sprint process and effort prioritization. Find creative solutions while understanding technical framework possibilities.
• Participate in user research projects to evaluate user feedback and validate the product value with stakeholders.

• Refine concepts based on user feedback.

• Communicate with platform users to gather information and periodically propose improvements.
• Understand and support the product vision and roadmap.
• Support platform-wide UX improvement initiatives.
• Advocate user-centered design concepts to product and engineering teams.
• Hold Product and Engineering accountable on implementation and highlight discrepancies via proper Design QA process.
• Ensure the product is useful, usable and delightful!

Skills and Qualifications

• Ability to work on complex problems and understand technologies.
• Understand and promote Design values and the importance of craft in the creative process.

• Able to perform benchmarking of competition or other industry solutions.

• Very strong ability to think out of the box.
• Proficient critical thinking ability to grasp complex systems, make connections, and, most importantly, to reflect on the findings, insights, and process in a neutral way while keeping larger context in mind.
• Proficient applied knowledge of User-Centered Design methodology; spanning across user research, ideation, prototyping and testing.
• Can empathize with users to understand their pain points and address their needs.
• Proactive self-starter who can work independently.
• Capable of working with stakeholders and users across different cities, countries and time zones.
• Proficient project/initiative management skills.
• Proven track of delivering projects on time while adapting to Agile sprints and product roadmap changes.

• Possess effective visual, verbal and written communication skills to accurately communicate & defend ideas, concepts and design decisions.
• UX writing ability to focus on copy, clarity, tone of voice in communicating instructions to users.

• Understand and support the team by conveying the design vision and product value.

• Understand the importance of quantifying value and effort to justify prioritization.
• Good understanding of AdTech, internal team structure that impacts workflows, etc., and the complexity of data models, site architecture, etc.

• Proficient with wireframing, low-fidelity prototypes, and high-fidelity interactive prototypes.
• Proficient in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, etc.
• Proficient in user research and testing tools such as Optimal Workshop, Maze, InVision, etc.
• Proficient aptitude in using existent applicable Design System components and creating new ones when required.
• Comfortable working in an Agile/Scrum sprint format.
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS and React Java Script is nice to have.

• Bachelor or Master degree in UX Design, Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Digital Media, New Media, Graphic Design or other relevant fields.
• 5+ years of experience in UX research, user experience design, product design or interaction design.
• Solid experience interviewing customers, organizing focus groups, and synthesizing insights.
• Vast experience in problem solving through User Centered Design (UCD) approach.
• Experience in tech or ad tech industry is a valuable asset.

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