Job Description

The Staff Product Designer’s primary responsibility is crafting spectacular user experiences that excite users, address real problems, and motivate them to continue engaging and buying with Reverb! Do you want to be a critical member of a product team, bringing clarity to product and UX strategies, while also rolling up your sleeves and accelerating discovery, definition and ideation? In addition to everyday designing, the Staff Product Designer plays a vital role in mentoring and supporting other product designers.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Director of Design and UX Research. We are open to remote hires within multiple states as well as candidates local to Chicago, IL. For candidates who will work remotely visit this link for a list of approved locations.  

Please submit your portfolio when applying.

Responsibilities

• Designing and articulating product vision for your area of work with a strong contextual understanding of the business, technology and UX perspectives, and aligning partners across departments around that vision
• Leading research and distilling insights on your own from data and research to drive the strategy for your team
• Using an understanding of our customers, design systems, and brand identity to provide relevant feedback to other designers and product teams
• Developing and facilitating design workshops to align cross-functional partners and designers with new product innovations
• Crafting interfaces that serve as the gold standard for how to apply our design systems and principles, and working very closely with Product Managers and Engineers to ensure high-quality implementation and user experiences
• Envisioning solutions that consistently innovate, exceed customer expectations, and business objectives
• Amplifying design team performance by influencing design practices and providing critical feedback, mentorship and support to members of the design team
• Representing Reverb’s design culture at design and product events

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in user experience, visual design, and prototyping for consumer web/mobile products
• An outstanding portfolio, showcasing a foundation in interaction and visual design, which illustrates your full process, from insights through definition, ideation, delivery, and the role of data in iteration
• Deep understanding of design methods and the ability to effectively apply those methods for digital products
• High level of skill and experience using tools for interface design and prototyping, such as Figma; experience with motion graphics is a plus
• Highly developed presentation and storytelling skills
• Experience leading high-impact design workshops across departments to identify long-term strategic areas of design opportunity
• Experience partnering with product leaders to develop the strategy and rationale for features
• Accustomed to working in a collaborative cross-disciplinary environment, where experimentation and testing are valued
• Experience with frontend implementation (i.e. HTML, SCSS, React, etc.) is a big plus