Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for various financial instruments. They are looking for a passionate and experienced Lead Product Designer to shape the future of product design, focusing on user needs and design quality across their product offerings.
Responsibilities
- Own the design process: Lead the end-to-end design for complex web and mobile applications, from user research and discovery to pixel-perfect execution
- Champion user needs: Deeply understand our diverse user base (global B2B and B2C customers, as well as internal teams) and advocate for their needs throughout the product development lifecycle
- Shape our design processes: Support efforts to shape and evolve design processes and rituals, exploring and applying AI thoughtfully to improve collaboration, creativity, and efficiency
- Cross-functional collaboration: Proactively bring stakeholders and users through the design process to bring projects to life
- Execute proactively: Manage multiple product and feature launches across our dashboards while consistently raising design quality
Skills
- 12+ years of experience in product design, with a track record of consistently delivering design quality across multiple end-user touchpoints in a fast-paced environment
- Experience leading a team of designers across multiple end-user experiences, aligning the team around product priorities and user-centred design strategy, while also delivering high-quality design work as a hands-on contributor
- Passionate about understanding user needs through research and metrics and advocating for user experience throughout the product lifecycle, regardless of touchpoint
- Facilitate alignment across product, engineering, and other relevant teams, advocating for user needs with data and research
- Experience standing up processes, rituals, and standards to ensure design consistency across the product ecosystem
- Solid understanding of working with API based products, advocating for user needs within API development, and a strong understanding of how designs are implemented
Benefits
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
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