PRODUCT DESIGNER

Lead experience design efforts for a critical portion of a user's journey by employing advanced design methods and creative problem-solving activities. Partner and collaborate with other product designers, product managers, technical leads and multi-disciplinary teams to understand/identify areas of opportunity driven by online data, usability feedback, market and user research and user-centric design principles. Champion the user by understanding their goals and behaviors, communicating their needs, and creating solutions to meet those needs while balancing desired business outcomes. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

- Work on product teams focused on making great digital products that delight customers and internal users while driving the business
- Serve as the user experience leader for an assigned product team
- Support and participate in user research activities, including interviews, contextual observation and surveys ; use personas and other data to understand user problems, behaviors and goals; translate user insights into design problems
- Focus on user problems, create journey maps, user flows, service blueprints, UX canvases, wireframes, or other artifacts that identify problems to solve through design
- Lead discovery sessions, create sketches and other brainstorming artifacts to demonstrate divergent thinking
- Create/design prototypes and communicate design decisions and test with users
- Seek feedback on designs through usability testing, surveys, card sorting, and other evaluative research methods to ensure ideas work for users
- Evaluate designs, review existing solutions to ensure they meet design standards and best practices, and make recommendations for improvements
- Understand how design decisions impact the business, and balance user needs with desired business outcomes
- Embrace Agile environment and be an advocate for customers and internal users, providing design solutions based in user-centered design, user research, and analytics
- Apply standards from design systems and/or brand guidelines, and contribute to design systems
- Create detailed artifacts, such as wireframes or storyboards to make sure stakeholders understand the design
- Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
 

Minimum
- Bachelor's Degree visual design, human-computer interaction, industrial design or related field; or relevant certification or equivalent work experience
- Any experience on large-scale projects with demonstrated ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams, and to discuss and convey user experience principles and design strategy for stakeholders
- Any experience working in an Agile software development environment
- 2+ years of experience as a UX professional designing web sites, web applications, native mobile apps or software
- Portfolio demonstrating design activities, processes and deliverables.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to discuss and convey design principles and strategy for stakeholders
- Deep understanding of design best practices and the proper context to apply them
- Ability to understand business objectives, direction and needs expressed from multiple inputs ranging from marketing, business and technical teams
- Understanding of technology, and comfortable working within constraints
- Working knowledge of Sketch, Invision, Adobe Illustrator or similar prototyping software
- Familiarity with analytics tools, and how to interpret analytics and apply data insights

Desired
- Master's Degree 
 

From one tiny Cincinnati grocery store more than a century ago, we’ve grown into what today is the nation’s largest grocer with nearly 2,800 stores in 35 states operating under 28 different names. As America’s grocer, we take pride in bringing diverse teams with a passion for food and people together with one common purpose: To Feed the Human Spirit. With a history of innovation, we work tirelessly to create amazing experiences for our customers, communities AND each other, with food at the heart of it all. Here, people matter. That’s why we strive to provide the ingredients you need to create your own recipe for success at work and in life. We help feed your future by providing the value and care you need to grow. If you’re caring, purpose-driven and hungry to learn, your potential is unlimited. Whether you’re seeking a part-time position or a new career path, we’ve got a fresh opportunity for you. Apply today to become part of our Kroger family! 

What you’ll receive from us:

The Kroger Family of Companies offers comprehensive benefits to support y