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Job Title: Lead Product Designer/ UX Designer (Native Mobile Apps) Location: Columbus Ohio 43230 Duration: 5 Months Job Type: Temporary Assignment Work Type: Remote Payrate:$ 65.00 - 70.00/hr. Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below job opportunity is to one of Our clients who is a global leader in personal care and home fragrance, including top-selling collections for fine fragrance mist, body lotion and body cream, 3-wick candles, home fragrance diffusers and liquid hand soap. JOB DESCRIPTION • We are looking for an experienced, process-minded designer that can work independently and help set UX direction on cross-functional product teams. • An ideal candidate for this contract excels in design thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and possesses a firm understanding of industry best practices in native mobile and mobile-first web experiences. • They are organized, self-driven, and invested in mentoring and guiding the junior designers on their product teams. • Previous experience in eCommerce / working in a Lead Product Designer capacity is a huge plus! Responsibilities: • Collaborating and communicating professionally with internal and cross-functional teams • Works well with cross-disciplinary teams, including FEWD, to create functional and engaging product experiences • Proficient in communicating direction, design principles, and design specifications • Fosters a highly collaborative design process and is trusted by their team to talk through both scope and technical challenges and negotiate thoughtful outcomes. • Takes a leadership role in cross-discipline meetings, bringing a design voice to the conversations and building trust between design teams and other disciplines. • Creating experience maps, user scenarios, comps, and flows • Designs user experiences from low-fidelity sketches to high-fidelity prototypes • Creates rapid prototypes to validate design concepts • Developing processes and approaches to solving design problems • Coordinates multi-disciplinary project teams • Communicates design considerations to different audiences, including developers, management, and leadership • Uses known methods and anticipates problems to strategize design solutions that meet and exceed business objectives • Working well with cross-disciplinary teams • Works closely with various teams to gain user insights, identify opportunities, validate concepts, and socialize ideas across the team • Collaborates with cross functional teams, including FEWD, to create functional and engaging product experiences. • Able to positively influence partners and stakeholders, both directly and indirectly. • Presenting work to cross-functional teams and leadership • Demonstrates experience executing design practices within Agile software development • Collaborates with Project Owners and Business Analysts to build and maintain a product backlog • Works closely with partners on the crafting of requirements and user stories. • Understands and considers business goals into their design decisions/solutions. Qualifications: • Leads are established and experienced practice leaders who actively push processes and conventions, directly contribute to strategy, and take ownership for their team’s work. Experience: • Team leads are organized leaders who have extensive experience in leading the delivery of successful work and have contributed to or led work on multiple shipped products. • They demonstrate the ability to drive change, improve workflows, and shepherd their team’s initiatives. • They can plan and execute the work according to current priorities and are able to deliver solutions that meet requirements and constraints while maintaining high standards of quality. Communication: • Team leads have exceptional communication skills. • They can clearly and confidently communicate decision-making rationale to their team, large groups, and organizational leadership. • They can express complex ideas in a persuasive and succinct manner, educate partners, tell compelling stories, and keep their leadership informed of critical information they have identified. Relationships: • Team leads have strong relationships with their peers and stakeholders. • They can influence partners, manage those relationships effectively, and reduce friction. • They build long-term strategic relationships and operate from a holistic perspective that accounts for multiple teams. • Leads can be flexible and manage stakeholders' expectations. Leads are equipped to facilitate difficult discussions within the team or with other stakeholders with confidence. • Presence: Leads are the cornerstones of the team and act as resources, mentors, and role models for more junior members. • Leads set the example for how to be “present” in a remote work environment. • Leads take an active interest in the development of their teammates and make themselves available as a resource for feedback, guidance, and support for the rest of the team. Accountability: • Leads take responsibility for the team’s ability to deliver quality work on time. Leadership: • Leads foster a highly collaborative design process and are trusted by their team to talk through both scope and technical challenges and negotiate thoughtful outcomes. • Takes a leadership role in cross-discipline meetings, bringing a design voice to the conversations and building trust between design teams and other disciplines. • Able to positively influence partners and stakeholders, both directly and indirectly. Required Experience: • 8+ years hands-on designing product experiences or general UX design • Previous experience working on a cross-functional product team in an Agile environment • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience • Experts in navigating and leveraging a heavily cross-functional environment • 1+ years mentoring other designers • Bonus Qualifications • Understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other front-end code frameworks • Experience designing native mobile apps • Experience in ecommerce • Working knowledge of design research methodologies TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.