Senior Product Designer (Remote)

Our Customer’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through their family of apps and services, they are building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together.

Our Customer is seeking a Senior Product Designer on a contract basis who will be responsible for defining, designing, researching, prototyping, and implementing new features as well as future iterations.

What You’ll Do:

• Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into something useful and valuable for people using our products.
• Work collaboratively with Product, Research, Engineering and other partners from concept to completion.
• Drive planning, strategy and vision on key priorities across cross-functional teams.
• Own the end-to-end design (user flows, interaction, visual, etc.) across multiple products and projects.
• Present designs, prototypes and concepts to cross functional partners and stakeholders.
• Provide implementation guidance to engineers and ensure features launch at the highest quality.
• Clearly articulate design decisions to a vast set of internal stakeholders across the company.
• Support internal/external map tooling.
• Work with client to draft a strategy for map tooling and execute on that strategy from conception to launch.
• Support defining the future of mapping for mobile/AR/VR products.

Must-Haves:

• 5+ years of experience in designing and shipping consumer software products.
• A portfolio of work that demonstrates a breadth of user experience, interaction and visual design skills.
• Must have strong visual design skills and previous experience working on mobile apps.
• Experience designing products for virtual, augmented, mixed reality and/or other emerging technologies.
• Experience prototyping 3D interactions or interfaces using Unity.
• Experience with novel user inputs such as hand or eye tracking.
• Experience designing products for developers and/or creators.
• Experience utilizing research and data to drive product strategy and decision making.
• Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders such as: User Research, Engineering, and Product Management.

**Please Note: Applicants without a portfolio will not be considered.**

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree is preferred.

Hours & Location:

• M-F, 40 hours/week. This role will be 100% Remote, but candidates must be based in New York City area.

All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States and are required to have US residency at the time of application.

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)

• Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, FSA, Commuter Benefit Program
• Accrued PTO: Up to 15 days per 12 months on assignment
• New Child Benefit: Up to $4,000 for the birth or adoption of a child while on assignment (conditions apply)

Please note: In order to create a safe, productive work environment, our client is requiring all contractors to be fully vaccinated according to the CDC guidelines (please inform your employer if you need a medical or religious exemption). Prior to onboarding, contractors will be required to attest that they are fully vaccinated. Boosters are required to be received by March 28, 2022, or six months after receiving the final dose of the original vaccination series, whichever is later.