Mid-level Product Designer Job in Shoptrade

ShopTrade has been solving design & development problems, product complications and coffee run emergencies for some time now. Our team can make one go blind with an enormous amount of creative solutions that they shine with. We believe in unlocking results and growing parallelly along with our clients.

We started from scratch, but we aim for the moon. While we are on our way there, we believe in establishing a growing relationship with our precious clients. We take pride in our business and services, just like you do. We strive every day for excellence so that you get to give your customers the experience that would leave an impression.

Role & Responsibilities

In addition to direct ownership of some parts of the product, you will be responsible for the design strategy, principles, and stakeholder management for the Product Team. The responsibilities below are a mix of individual responsibilities as well as your responsibilities towards your team.

Identify Problems:

• Apply skills from design, user experience, analytics, and business acumen to identify customer and user problems.

• Apply the lens of design, strategy, user goals, and ShopTrade objectives to address problems in the product.

Communicate:

• Evangelize and communicate the design plan and practices.

• Constantly raise the bar on design practices and collaboration with stakeholders.

Collaborate:

• Collaborate with CEO, Engineers, and Designers to arrive at detailed solutions to problems.

• Collaborate with Users to understand and eliminate obstacles to adoption and usage.

• Work with CEO/CTO to plan launch scope.

Team and Practice Health for Design Team-

Ensure team health, hire world-class Product designers, career development, coaching, and mentoring tailored to individual goals.

• Evolve and iterate design practices and apply good judgment when needed to violate them.

• Help ShopTrade evolve Product design practices for increasing scale, efficiency, and customer value.

Evolve and Communicate Design Strategy & Principles -

• Develop and share your rock-solid understanding of customers and the business.

• Use data and research to define and articulate design goals that will be in line with overall product goals.

• Align stakeholders, CEO, and others towards evolving design practices.

Ideal Candidate

• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.

• You should have worked at a startup/product company that shipped a product and generated meaningful revenue.

• 3+ years of experience in a role in Product Design. 1+ years of experience managing other designers is a plus.

• You should have a track record of shipping high-quality products and features and owning the process end-to-end.

• Experience designing modern web applications.

• Prior experience with a scaled B2B SaaS product that shipped a product and generated meaningful revenue.

• Familiarity with modern UX/UI patterns and Design System ex: Shopify Polaris, IBM, Google, Apple

• Attention to detail - great products are all about the details.

• Passionate about joining a small team and building a company.

• Experience in hiring, developing, and managing a team of Jr. Designers is a plus.

• Experience owning a large-scoped product.

• Experience of closely working with cross-functional teams outside the Engineering team, such as Customer Success, Marketing, Sales.