Senior Product Designer (Remote, select U.S. states)

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer with a human-centered mindset to join our growing, distributed team at Coforma.
Product designers at Coforma serve as the bridge between research and delivery. They work toward business goals and user needs with a bias toward scalable systems. They benefit our clients by building holistic, informed design systems while ensuring the rapid delivery of iterative designs to agile development teams. They collaborate with research, content design, product management, engineering, project management, and client business owners, showing up as creative problem solvers who can unearth elegant solutions to complex issues.
As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll join a team dedicated to improving the experiences of critical services and products for government agencies, nonprofits, and values-aligned organizations. You’ll demonstrate consistently high-level execution even when encountering ambiguity in complex, multi-stakeholder project environments. You’ll showcase a clear passion and enthusiasm for learning and sharing your expertise. You’ll demonstrate working knowledge of visual design and front-end development concepts and relationships, including the use and maintenance of design systems. You’ll be a compassionate representative for the Product Design practice area and proactively seek collaboration across practice areas and with other departments.
$147,290 to $156,560 Annual Salary + Benefits + Growth PotentialPlacement within this range will be based on the competency level of the candidate. An offer will be made at one of the following tiers:
Tier 1: $147,290 — Meets minimum qualification/experience requirements. Beyond onboarding, will need additional guidance and training to perform key responsibilities of the role.Tier 2: $156,560 — Experienced and fully-competent. Beyond onboarding, can independently perform key responsibilities of the role.
To honor our company-wide equitable pay system, the posted salary range and corresponding tier salaries are non-negotiable.
The job posting for this role is set to close by 5:00pm PDT on Monday, March 18th, 2024.The desired start date for this role is mid-April 2024.
This is a U.S.-based remote position (open to applicants in select states listed below) and some travel will be required.
Note: to ensure we remain compliant with all state, county, and local employment and tax regulations, applicants must currently reside in one of the following states to be considered for employment with Coforma. This list will be updated periodically as our PeopleOps team works to open up hiring in additional states.
-Arizona-California-District of Columbia-Florida-Georgia-Idaho-Illinois-Maine-Maryland-Massachusetts-Montana-Nevada-New York-North Carolina-Oregon-Tennessee-Texas-Washington-Wisconsin
Overview
The Senior Product Designer will bring human-centered design processes and methods to our work wherever possible, sometimes serving as a project's design lead. Your passion for designing simple and effective products, informed by insights of real people and key business needs, will inspire and ground your peers. You’ll help us better understand the people we aim to serve, the needs of the organizations and agencies we work with, and the changes we can make to have a significant and lasting impact. You’ll incorporate accessibility best practices and standards into all your work, and help others do the same.

What You'll Do (Responsibilities)

• Scope design needs for assigned projects whose parameters are often undefined, proactively navigating organizational and project ambiguity
• Work cross-functionally to develop product design principles, strategies, product roadmaps, and success measures that meet client needs
• Set and follow direction to build high-quality design deliverables and accompanying documentation from kickoff to handoff, including: design systems, prototypes, UI designs, wireframes, and more
• Partner with other designers to ensure all deliverables are inclusive, accessible, and use plain language
• Plan and execute various approaches to user research and design strategy and define, lead, and support usability testing using low- and high-fidelity prototypes as well as live systems
• Synthesize usability research insights and transform them into design recommendations and decisions
• Demonstrate solid process and a well-rounded knowledge of techniques, principles, tools, materials, and systems in Product Design and other design disciplines
• Lead and participate in meetings, workshops, and training sessions for clients, stakeholders, and internal teamsIdentify, analyze, and work through complex problems in a way that addresses business requirements and user needs—and coach more junior team members to do the same
• Present work in various forums and formats for varied audiences
• Help set the bar for client interaction