Position: Product Designer
Company: Insticator, Inc.
Category: Design
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Job Overview**

We are in search of a **Product Designer** that can act as a swiss army type of team member. We need our Product Designer’s abilities to range from a strategic mindset (that allows the person to approach technology with a ‘platform-thinking’ perspective) to a hands-on, pragmatic set of Design skills – interaction design, user interface design, graphic design, and so on.

We need someone who is very familiar with research skills and methodologies that help them to inform and validate key decisions involved in every step of the design process.

This position will work with Product Managers, Researchers, Engineers, and other business stakeholders to execute on the full spectrum of the product development process for new features and products. 

**Why this is the position for you:**

- You’ll collaborate closely with other designers and creative people from our Product Design, Research, Marketing, Product Management, and Engineering teams
- You’ll face a fast-paced, rapid-changing environment with lots of challenges and opportunities to test your skills
- You’ll have a safe environment to experiment and grow and benefit from the internal design practices and processes that shape our strong Design culture
- Every Product Designer at Insticator is fully accountable for all stages of their execution: research, exploration, prototyping, testing, and implementation — so you’ll keep growing rapidly as a well-balanced, super savvy Product Designer with every project.

**Responsibilities and Duties:**

**Your life as a Product Designer**

- You will conduct quantitative and qualitative user research with our existing clients and/or unbiased participants (interviews, usability tests, etc.)
- You will facilitate collaborative design workshops to integrate other designers and stakeholders in the creative stages of design projects
- You will design low, mid, and hi-fi mockups and prototypes to be used in testing, presenting ideas, and handover to the Engineering team
- You will prototype and test different design solutions with relevant stakeholders, and incorporate insights into new iterations of the designs
- You will collaborate with the Product Marketing team to make sure our external communication is aligned with our product vision and the voice of our clients

**Collaboration with the Engineering team**

- You will participate in the organized collection of design assets and requirements as part of the handover process with the Engineering team
- You will get involved in development estimation, prioritizing, and planning exercises with the development team

**Living our Design Culture**

- You will help us to continuously update our practices, tools and processes; based on personal exploration and testing
- You will be a champion for our users by sharing and promoting user-centric knowledge and curiosity amongst every stakeholder
- You will mentor and share knowledge with other designers (regardless of their level of experience) as much as possible

**Qualifications:**

**Professional competencies**

- 5+ years of experience working as a Product Designer; involved in User Experience-oriented projects; interaction and interface design, etc.
- Experience on B2B2C products highly valued
- Ability to execute a Product Design project from start to end; i.e. research, ideation, prototyping, validation; and final, documented mockups
- Experience collaborating with engineering teams
- Advanced knowledge in these sets of skills:
  - Strategic Design, User & Product Research 
  - Information Architecture
  - Interaction and Interface Design, Graphic Design
  - Digital Product Design tools & methods
  - Project management
- Good knowledge in these skills: Basic understanding of front end code and programming concepts
- Experience using modern Design tools and processes (e.g. Sketch, InVision, Abstract, GV Design Sprint, and so on)
- **Excellent** English language 

**Cultural competencies**

- Experience collaborating remotely (preferably with teams in North America)
- Product sense (or product-thinking): ability to break down a problem into pieces before hitting pixels
- Demonstrated skills for collaborating effectively with researchers, designers, product managers and engineers
- Skilled at receiving feedback, as well as providing it
- Entrepreneurial & adaptable; great learning skills
- Curious, research-minded, data-informed

**Benefits:**

**Design Culture at Insticator**

Design is a core element of our company product, communication and operations, and we are proud of how it manifests in different forms:

- We run our own custom formats for Design Sprints based on different types of design challenges
- We rely on design studios, design critiques, design reviews, retrospectives, and other formats for designers to come together and learn from each other
- We run weekly design reviews with our CEO
- Custom career goals are encouraged for every designer, paired by coaching from the Design Manager and other stakeholders
- We have individual budgets for learning and access to resources
- Designers have daily contact with stakeholders in all departments, and the value of design is well appreciated by non-design areas

**Full-time employment benefits**

We offer a diverse package and the chance to grow financially with the company, including:

- Competitive Salary
- Annual Performance Bonus
- Stock options (so you have ownership in the company and benefit as it grows)
- VIP Medical & Dental Insurance