Product Designer – Senior Associate

At Aumni, our Product team is reimagining venture portfolio management by empowering our customers with investment tracking, portfolio monitoring, and data analytics tools to make faster, smarter decisions. We are looking for a product designer for our new Company KPI product to drive the product development lifecycle from discovery to delivery.

As a Product Designer within Aumni, you will explore, communicate, and deliver solutions that allow customers to intuitively use our product. You must have a passion for performing discovery efforts that enable you to properly and clearly advocate for the customer and their needs. The ideal candidate will be skilled at each stage of the design process and expected to work with other designers and cross-functional team members throughout the product development lifecycle.

Job Responsibilities:

• Convey and articulate discovery insights and design decisions to other Product Designers as well as members of your squad. 
• Co-own—with a product manager—the gathering, analysis, interpretation, documentation, and representation (advocacy) of customer behavior and sentiment relative to your squad’s area of responsibility. 
• Conceive and regularly carry out experiments that employ quantitative and qualitative methods to test hypotheses and solutions to customer problems. 
• Produce high-quality visuals that are consistent with best practice, aesthetics, our design system, and the Aumni brand. 
• Embody an iterative approach when attempting to solve customer problems, designing shippable, observable parts that create value and generate learning. 
• Create experiences that impact customer behavior and company objectives in measurably-positive ways. 
• Give quality-increasing feedback to other designers during formal and informal design critique sessions.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• 3+ years of Product/UX Design experience.
• Professional product design experience—specifically in web application design—demonstrated via a portfolio or something similar.
• Proficiency with Figma as well as design systems and associated best practices. 
• Thorough verbal and written communication skills, particularly when conveying user insights and design rationale.
• Proficiency in performing exploratory user research (e.g., user/stakeholder interviews, quantitative data gathering/interpretation, etc.). 
• Some proficiency in employing quantitative and qualitative methods to test hypotheses and solutions. 
• Considerable knowledge of design best practice and aesthetics. 
• Experience iteratively creating products that impact customers and the business in measurably-positive ways.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Experience designing Fintech products.
• Familiarity with the private market / venture capital industry.
• Understanding of how companies document, organize, and report on KPIs.
• Experience designing data visualizations for financial charting and trends.
• Experience designing web form interfaces with an eye toward optimizing data collection accuracy.