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Please note this role is specifically for the LA area and requires travel onsite to our client's office, located in LA 3 days a week.
Contract Duration - 5 months
Can you bring creative human-centered ideas to life and make great things happen beyond what meets the eye? Can you turn strategy into concrete solutions and keep teams and clients engaged in solving challenges?
We believe in teamwork, fun, complex projects, and simple solutions. How about you? We’re looking for a talent and like-minded
Product Design Director
with the experience, passion, and proven ability to lead digital design & delivery.
What you’ll do….
Lead a cross-disciplinary team of designers, creatives, strategists, product, and developers to design, build and launch product features into the market.
Guide the team to take a user-first approach to create world‑class design solutions from consumer insights and reflection, through concept, sketching, prototypes, and hi‑fidelity production ready designs
Work across digital product design, including UX, UI, visual design, and branding
Act as a primary point of contact for our client that becomes a trusted advisor
Demonstrate exceptional skills and knowledge of agile product lifecycle management, including how designers, researchers, product, and developers come together effectively
Guide the team through the entire product delivery process, from concept and sketches, to prototypes and production‑ready designs.
Excellent time/project management skills in a multi‑project fast‑paced environment, and a high do‑say ratio.
Collaborate with project delivery leaders, technology teams, and stakeholders for seamless execution of design projects.
Manage and mentor mid‑junior designers in the art of managing clients, projects, and producing work efficiently using analog and digital applications to a refined level to hand off to our clients and partners
Continuously identify opportunities to enhance and evolve design offerings, introducing new strategies, frameworks, and approaches.
Present your work in client presentations in strategic terms with a user‑focused rationale
Help to drive our services, processes, and quality of work forward to ultimately bring innovative digital products and services to the market
Transform our client’s businesses by thinking and working across design, product and technology; being an advocate of user‑centered design
We would like you to have….
A bachelors/master’s degree in industrial design, product design, or similar educational background with 8+ years of hands‑on work experience in the field including several years of project and team leadership.
Deep experience with launching products into the market leveraging user‑centered design and agile methodologies
Experience translating research insights into feasible requirements and designs for digital products
A highly expressive ideations & exploration process involving visualization of multiple concepts and iterative pruning & refinement using different techniques and methods
Exceptional communication and presentation skills
Experience managing and owning a client relationship
Detail‑orientation, with the ability to seek creative viable solutions to any given situation
A ‘here to help’ attitude, who absolutely, fundamentally believes that we’re better together
Ambition and vision to build a world‑class product design team and practice
A relevant portfolio of work displaying your experience bringing products to market from concept to delivery
Experience in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and agile product management tools (i.e., Jira, Shortcut, etc.)
Comfortable guiding and carrying out user research & testing
A strategic design thinking and doer who is able to work in complex business environments, leading mixed teams of colleagues and clients, while providing inspiration and direction
Located in LA and ability to travel onto client site in LA 3 days a week (Tuesday – Thursday)
Compensation: $80-$85 per hour (40 hours per week)
Want to know more?
Check out our open jobs around the world. Just so you know, we don’t have a dress code, but we do have a strict no jerk policy.
Please note that all official communications regarding this job opportunity will be sent from email addresses ending with @designit.com. Be cautious of any correspondence originating from other email domains and refrain from engaging in such cases. Do not share your personal information with sources you do not trust.
Designit is committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to be considered for employment. Please let us know if you need any reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process.
Seniority Level Director
Employment Type Contract
Job Function Design and Consulting
Industry Design Services
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Please note this role is specifically for the LA area and requires travel onsite to our client's office, located in LA 3 days a week.
Contract Duration - 5 months
Can you bring creative human-centered ideas to life and make great things happen beyond what meets the eye? Can you turn strategy into concrete solutions and keep teams and clients engaged in solving challenges?
We believe in teamwork, fun, complex projects, and simple solutions. How about you? We’re looking for a talent and like-minded
Product Design Director
with the experience, passion, and proven ability to lead digital design & delivery.
What you’ll do….
Lead a cross-disciplinary team of designers, creatives, strategists, product, and developers to design, build and launch product features into the market.
Guide the team to take a user-first approach to create world‑class design solutions from consumer insights and reflection, through concept, sketching, prototypes, and hi‑fidelity production ready designs
Work across digital product design, including UX, UI, visual design, and branding
Act as a primary point of contact for our client that becomes a trusted advisor
Demonstrate exceptional skills and knowledge of agile product lifecycle management, including how designers, researchers, product, and developers come together effectively
Guide the team through the entire product delivery process, from concept and sketches, to prototypes and production‑ready designs.
Excellent time/project management skills in a multi‑project fast‑paced environment, and a high do‑say ratio.
Collaborate with project delivery leaders, technology teams, and stakeholders for seamless execution of design projects.
Manage and mentor mid‑junior designers in the art of managing clients, projects, and producing work efficiently using analog and digital applications to a refined level to hand off to our clients and partners
Continuously identify opportunities to enhance and evolve design offerings, introducing new strategies, frameworks, and approaches.
Present your work in client presentations in strategic terms with a user‑focused rationale
Help to drive our services, processes, and quality of work forward to ultimately bring innovative digital products and services to the market
Transform our client’s businesses by thinking and working across design, product and technology; being an advocate of user‑centered design
We would like you to have….
A bachelors/master’s degree in industrial design, product design, or similar educational background with 8+ years of hands‑on work experience in the field including several years of project and team leadership.
Deep experience with launching products into the market leveraging user‑centered design and agile methodologies
Experience translating research insights into feasible requirements and designs for digital products
A highly expressive ideations & exploration process involving visualization of multiple concepts and iterative pruning & refinement using different techniques and methods
Exceptional communication and presentation skills
Experience managing and owning a client relationship
Detail‑orientation, with the ability to seek creative viable solutions to any given situation
A ‘here to help’ attitude, who absolutely, fundamentally believes that we’re better together
Ambition and vision to build a world‑class product design team and practice
A relevant portfolio of work displaying your experience bringing products to market from concept to delivery
Experience in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and agile product management tools (i.e., Jira, Shortcut, etc.)
Comfortable guiding and carrying out user research & testing
A strategic design thinking and doer who is able to work in complex business environments, leading mixed teams of colleagues and clients, while providing inspiration and direction
Located in LA and ability to travel onto client site in LA 3 days a week (Tuesday – Thursday)
Compensation: $80-$85 per hour (40 hours per week)
Want to know more?
Check out our open jobs around the world. Just so you know, we don’t have a dress code, but we do have a strict no jerk policy.
Please note that all official communications regarding this job opportunity will be sent from email addresses ending with @designit.com. Be cautious of any correspondence originating from other email domains and refrain from engaging in such cases. Do not share your personal information with sources you do not trust.
Designit is committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to be considered for employment. Please let us know if you need any reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process.
Seniority Level Director
Employment Type Contract
Job Function Design and Consulting
Industry Design Services
#J-18808-Ljbffr