Ursus: Staff Product Designer (Core Shopping Experience, Purchase)

Job Title: Staff Product Designer | Core Shopping Experience (Purchase)Location: Seattle, WA or Boston, MAFull-TimeSummary:We are seeking a Staff Product Designer to play a hands-on role in realizing our client’s vision, shaping the future of our pet parents’ shopping experience.

As the Staff Product Designer, you’ll be a thought leader for the User Experience of the Core Shopping experience.

You’ll have the opportunity to think and act big, exercising continuous innovation and a bias for action, coupled with thoughtful experimentation.

The ideal candidate will be a systems-level design thinker and visionary, with strong customer instincts and outstanding design intuition.

Your primary goal will be to ensure an unparalleled customer experience that enables customers to accomplish their goals in the most elegant, efficient, and enjoyable way possible.

To achieve this, you will be responsible for driving the design process and propelling teams to completion working closely with partners in research, product management and engineering to help shape the future of how pet parents shop.Responsibilities:You’ll be a member of the Core Shopping Design Team.

The Core Shopping Design team empowers our client to provide a world-class shopping experience for pet parents (and partners), end-to-end, across desktop, tablet, and mobile apps and web.

They design simple, fluid, and beautiful experiences that accommodate their growing and diverse selection, remove complexity and noise from their customers’ paths, and delight them along the way.

Their product landscape includes Navigation, Homepage, Search, Browse (ELP/PLP), Product Detail Page (PDP), Cart, Checkout, Account, CMS/Promotions, and Gifting.Each day you’ll:Earn trust and collaborate with product managers, developers, user researchers, and other designers to execute design concepts that deliver on user and business goals while elevating our customer experience.Operate at depth to lead the design of the lower-funnel customer journey, focusing on how users add items to their cart, seamlessly and securely checkout, and manage their post-purchase experience.Keep it Simple and champion a cohesive, consistent UX that delights pet parents and elevates their checkout experience.Act like an owner on the team to deliver work by leading innovative and holistic thinking across diverse products, platforms, and devices; drive the direction, style, and methodology of design and accessibility.Put the Customers first, and utilize design thinking principles through all facets of the product design life cycle, from Client and concept ideation, through flows and wireframes, to full-fidelity prototype designs.

Enabling you to build engaging user experiences for multiple user groups that solve business objectives with purpose and simplicity.Think big, and champion cohesion and consistency in UX design that unites a growing family of Enterprise products, while continuing to nurture and evangelize a fervent culture of invention and innovation.Deliver results by presenting and articulating your design process, inspiration, and decisions to internal stakeholders including C-suite executives.Foster our client’s culture and principles within the group while setting new standards in executional and operational excellence.Qualifications:Bachelor’s, or equivalent degree, in Design, HCI, or related field or equivalent professional experience with the design field.A total of 7+ years of experience in User Experience Design that includes 4+ years of leading large-scale initiatives at a product based organization.Fluency in best practices for User Interface Design, Information Architecture, and Interaction Design; practical knowledge of User Centered Design processes and lifecycles; ability to provide and effectively communicate strategic and tactical recommendations based on quantitative/qualitative data and optimal Design practices.Comprehensive knowledge of the latest design concepts, emerging technologies, and other developments in the user experience field.Effectiveness in working across organizational boundaries to influence and deliver results.Exemplary analytical skills and high judgment.Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills; the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.A proven ability to consider the impact of your decisions, past your own products.Able to translate concepts into concrete depictions to clarify ideas and advance collaboration based on shared understanding.Strong bias for action including the ability to juggle multiple priorities and effectively deliver in a fast paced, dynamic environmentExperience designing for e-commerce.Preferred Qualifications:A passion for and the ability to develop and mentor design talentIND123