Product Designer

What you will be doing

• Work directly with clients, stakeholders, and internal teams to design and build user-friendly digital experiences that align with client goals and user needs.
• Collaborate closely with clients to understand their needs and define requirements.
• Test and refine designs to deliver flawless user experiences throughout the entire product lifecycle.
• Mentor and work with other members of the Livefront product design team.
• Work with zero-to-one and established design systems to maintain and update style guides, assets, and deliverables.
• Work with engineers to answer design questions, make adjustments, and provide assets for the design-to-development hand-off process.
• Work within the production constraints of each platform for which we’re designing and/or engineering.
• Manage your time across a mix of both small and large projects with overlapping priority and urgency.
• Organize and maintain working files inside a collaborative file structure.
• Adopt new practices and tools as our work and the design industry evolves.
• Proofread copy and fix errors and formatting in design source files and production decks.
• Note: The above is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function within the Livefront design team.

Why you should apply

• You want to work with passionate and talented people who are always looking for ways to make things better. 
• You desire a work environment where respect, mutual trust, and egoless collaboration are paramount. 
• You want colleagues who take their work seriously but not themselves, and who know how to find fun in the work.  
• You like being part of a team that has a reputation for excellence and gives back to the community by educating, mentoring, and sponsoring. 
• You want to work on products and accounts that have outsized impact and reach. 
• You believe in sweating the details, committing to quality, and taking pride in going the extra mile.

What you bring to the table

• A standout portfolio showcasing exemplary visual design chops and product sensibilities.
• At least 3-5 years of relevant experience, ideally in a consulting environment or as part of an in-house, cross-functional product team.
• Mastery of current UI/UX best practices, as well as modern design tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and various prototyping tools.
• Experience designing consumer-facing native applications for iOS and/or Android and a fluent command of each platform’s native design communication skills and a strong ability to present and defend creative choices persuasively at varying levels of resolution.
• Above-average discipline and personal organization skills.
• Obvious comfort with critique in the context of an iterative design process.
• Experience producing design decks to communicate design flows to clients and engineers.
• A demonstrated hunger for personal and professional growth within the field.
• A self-evident love and care for the craft of product design.
• Comfort with occasional travel to our HQ in MN.

Bonus points if you...

• Have experience conducting customer research ranging from qualitative data analysis to hands-on usability testing.
• Have illustration, animation, and/or 3D design chops.
• Have experience with motion design tools like Adobe After Effects and/or Cinema4D.