Sr Digital Product Designer

What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

The Senior Digital Product Designers at Southern Glazer’s work with one or more product portfolios and report to the Director, Digital Product Design. This role is focused on our native mobile applications for suppliers, customers, and employees. Within a portfolio, a senior product designer has the responsibility to:  

Primary Responsibilities

• Ideate and develop design concepts
• Understand the product’s users and their needs and buying habits
• Lead problem-framing & ideation sessions
• Lead design concepting and storyboarding to map out ideas
• Create design hypotheses and explore divergent ideas and potential solutions
• Prototype and iterate
• Create user flows, storyboards, high quality wireframes, low and high-fidelity app design prototypes
• Collaborate with design researchers to continuously learn & iterate design work
• Present design work
• Lead design reviews with executive-level colleagues
• Provide solid rationale for design decisions
• Ensure design coherence and advocate for design systems
• Help to define the product’s design language and ensure consistency of interaction design patterns

Additional Primary Responsibilities

• Follow app design, usability, and accessibility best practices
• Model collaboration and thought leadership, help colleagues develop and articulate design POVs
• Collaborate with app development:
• Close collaboration with app developers on foundations, frameworks, annotations and iterations throughout the development process
• Partner with release engineers and QA teammates to ensure design intent is realized and products are successfully brought to market
• Partner with analytics to ensure apps are appropriately tagged to understand performance
• Partner with product management
• Support the OKRs of product portfolios as a senior design partner
• Help the portfolio director understand customer needs through research, interviews, workshops, story mapping, and similar techniques

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of digital product design experience, inclusive of mobile app design, web design, and design systems
• 5+ years of experience designing enterprise-level native mobile applications for iOS and Android
• Portfolio inclusive of digital project work showing end-to-end experience: from ideation to launch of a mobile application
• Familiarity with the full app development lifecycle, using product roadmaps, story mapping, writing design stories, designing features, direct collaboration with development teams, app store submission
• Expert knowledge of:
• Design & prototyping tools (Figma, Protopie, Framer, Canvaa)
• Collaboration tools (Miro, Confluence, Jira)
• Global design systems
• Common mobile app frameworks (Flutter, FlutterFlow, React Native, PWA)
• Ability to generate, visualize and prototype new concepts to demonstrate and test with users and stakeholders

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

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