Senior Product Designer, Pages

Please note: Your application must include a link to your website/online portfolio. 

We're growing! Yext needs a talented Senior Product Designer with 5+ years of SaaS product design experience to augment our Produce UX team. Ideal candidates will have a passion for finding solutions that allow customers to intuitively use our products. They will be skilled at each stage of the design process but always focused on the needs of the customer. Successful candidates will be curious and thorough in their design execution and have a successful track record operating within design systems. Must be inclined to work in team settings, be methodical in making design decisions, and Agile-oriented.

What You’ll Do

• Lead product design and UX solutions across the entire product lifecycle, and work with other designers and cross-functional teammates to influence strategy and ship product and features for our Pages solutions.
• Collaborate with other design team members around the overall product visions, UX processes, and contributing to the future of our design system
• Work with Product and Engineering to prioritize experiences and jobs to be done with an effective balance of customer problem/value and end-user needs
• Create designs and interactive prototypes that build on the foundation of atomic design components to communicate your designs 
• Help vet and prioritize solutions in an iterative and collaborative process
• Help identify and analyze user needs or pain points through participation in user research and behavioral analytics that inform your design decisions
• Coordinate with engineering teams to provide them with detailed designs and functional requirements that help with their implementation
• Seek constructive feedback from team members to rapidly explore multiple solutions that lead to better outcomes
• Present product design ideas to cross-functional teams and senior leadership
• Participate in the internal development of our design system and promote its adoption across our company
• Consider our customer’s needs and identify opportunities to pitch product expansion ideas or new features for existing products
• Stay up to date on current SaaS industry trends and market conditions

What You Have

• Proven design experience. You have about 5+ years of professional experience designing experiences for Enterprise SaaS product suites.
• ​​You’ve shipped products, and understand what it takes to build scalable solutions for users working in modern distributed environments.
• Comfortable exploring concepts, tweaking flows, or refining designs that represent big-picture work.
• Comfortable translating and implementing findings from research and testing.
• Effective communicator and facilitator. You’ve worked in and planned sprints, identified opportunities for spike projects, and structured workshops to drive outcomes quickly and effectively.
• Openness to collaboration and receiving feedback from other product designers, PMs, engineers, and stakeholders.
• Experience working with and contributing to a design system
• An eye for quality. The ability to deliver high-quality work and speak to what makes it so. You care about the user and business impact and can create solutions that are oriented to these overlapping, and sometimes, competing outcomes
• Ability to collect and interpret both qualitative and quantitative feedback
• A strong understanding of core design principles that make even the earliest of wireframes easy to understand so that discussions can focus on experience and impact. “This is just a wireframe. That will make sense after it’s designed” is not in your lexicon
• Ability to effectively communicate and persuade others to adopt your design concepts
• You’re able to accurately articulate your design specifications for product development.
• Passion for design; not satisfied with the status quo and always thinking of ways to improve
• An inclusive design approach to your work, understand that accessibility criteria and designing for people with disabilities (seen and unseen) is intrinsic to good product design and not something to check off at the end of the process
• BA/BS degree in Design (e.g., interaction, graphic, UX, product, industrial, HCI), or a related field or equivalent practical experience
• Proven design experience. 5+ years of professional experience as a product designer for SaaS interfaces 
• Experience working with design systems and creating solutions that are consistent with the defined design language.
• You’re comfortable working, collaborating, and testing in Figma
• Proficiency in organization tools like Slack, Google docs, or Excel 
• You have a strong online portfolio of example work that you can share

Bonus Points

• Experience designing no-code/low-code solutions
• Experience designing responsive UIs
• Work with research to plan and coordinate upfront field research activities, including identifying research needs, collaborating on screener questions, user testing scripts, and market research.
• Experience designing for Accessibility and designing solutions meet WCAG standards.
• Experience in the Marketing Technology space
• Assess usability problems based on heuristics and universal design principles to recommend enhancements
• Able to create user flows and process diagrams to communicate integrated workflows

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