Position: Lead UX Designer / Product Design Manager
Company: UATech People
Category: Design
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**TEAM:**
BQE is on a mission to change how professional services firms operate and serve their client - we aim to help them to be more and do more.  BQE acts as the operating system for these firms by offering an all-in-one SaaS solution to manage projects, track time and expenses, bill clients, collect payments for services rendered, and provide reporting and analytics to inform better decision-making. In addition, we offer accounting, CRM and HR capabilities to truly manage firms’ end-to-end work.  We have an established customer base and are growing. The work environment is customer obsessed, dynamic, and results oriented and the space we operate in attractive with many opportunities.

**POSITION SUMMARY:**
BQE is looking for a hands on, experienced Product Design leader to lead design across BQE’s product portfolio. Your role will be a mix of pitching in with the design work and managing another designer to create compelling, highly intuitive experiences for multiple product lines of a leading SaaS web application (responsive web across desktop and mobile) with B2B, and B2B2C elements. 

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you'll develop and maintain the team’s user obsession and focus work on the highest impact problems with the best solutions. Your collaborative and interpersonal skills will help you build relationships with stakeholders throughout the company, establishing a strong UX vision and evangelizing user experience design. You’ll also push UX boundaries by exploring the latest emerging trends and designing experiments aimed at discovering innovative solutions.

If you are looking for a place where you can have meaningful impact, lots of 
ownership, and opportunity to grow alongside the organization as we scale our business, we’d love to hear from you.

**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:**
• Be BQE’s lead and expert on all things UX/UI 
• Support and grow the design team as needed, currently with one designer  
• Establish collaborative relationships with product management and other key 
team members; you know UX can't succeed in isolation.
• Conduct competitive analysis to inform design and effectively communicate 
research findings.

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
• Define and shape BQE’s visual language to standout in a highly competitive 
market
• Develop and communicate best practices UX/interaction standards and style 
guide for creating world-class user experiences.
• Create artful, yet clean designs and precise specifications, wireframes, 
interaction design, user flows and key UX documentation.
• Rapidly prototype to support scoping and usability studies.
• Gather and incorporate feedback with humility and thoughtfulness.
• Work closely with product and engineering to ensure ideas can be 
implemented as presented, and are executed correctly.

**QUALIFICATIONS:**
• A highly talented individual who can thrive in unstructured fast paced 
environment, preferably with a mix of B2B enterprise and startup experience.
• Experienced designer: you’ve earned your bachelor’s in Computer Science,
Management Information Systems or equivalent and bring at least 6 years of 
UX experience, including responsive design, interaction design and 
information architecture. 
• Leadership: You’ve managed at least one other designer for +2 years.
• Data driven: you have demonstrated knowledge of using quantitative 
analytics to support UX decisions and are able to plan and execute usability 
testing utilizing various methodologies.
• Visionary: you are able to create solutions designed to scale and grow over 
time, as the functionality and content matures and as user requirements 
evolve
• Team player: you are able to work effectively within a team environment, 
collaborating with product and engineering in an agile development 
environment.
• Growth Oriented: you identified areas for self-improvement and challenged 
yourself to grow  
• Proven: you have a portfolio with interaction examples and click-through 
prototypes that will take our breath away
• Skilled: you’re no stranger to utilizing various design tools such as Figma, 
Sketch, Invision, Photoshop to create required artifacts.

**WORK ENVIRONMENT:**
• May be expected to work outside of regular business hours on occasion.