Interaction Designer

Temp position (6-7 Months) for one of the biggest global companies in the world-Interaction Designer

Job Overview: 

As an interaction designer in the Ecosystem team, you will use UX and visual skills to help develop, support, and evangelize future-forward concepts internally and externally. You will help deliver rich experiences in communicating concepts. You will work closely with teams of Designers, Researchers, Engineers, and Product Managers throughout the design process.

Responsibilities: 

• You accomplish this by proactively identifying, defining, and communicating problems within the project or product team(s), and deliver practical and/or creative ways to fix them.
•  You have a working knowledge of UX design principles, user-centered product development methodologies, style guides, and research tools. 
• You work with minimal guidance to complete work such as analyzing or anticipating user needs, identifying product or platform requirements, improving design solutions based on UX testing and partner/stakeholder input, and creating innovative design solutions to defined user, product, and business problems. 
• You demonstrate the ability to build design tools and deliver outputs, including the product or platform. This includes questioning the execution and craft to assess how well-considered the design work is for appropriateness, longevity, collaboration, and scaling.
• Define user journeys and flows from the beginning to the end, working closely with the UXR team, PMs, and our community. Design simple and user-centric solutions to complex interactions, deliver high-quality mockups and prototypes, represent the user's voice while working with multiple stakeholders, bring fresh and innovative ideas, constantly sharpen our Design System, work closely with a great UX team, and share and learn from each other. 
• Independently complete end-to-end tasks that are integrated into an overarching project or program.
• Navigate project constraints with engineers and managers to ensure design quality achieves the required results.
• Plan, balance, manage, and execute prioritized work, making progress independently to achieve well-defined design objectives.
• Independently make decisions that improve quality and/or consistency within a feature or project-level scope of work (e.g., process, team, deliverables).
• Address low-to-medium complexity design and/or user problems by leveraging established Google design principles and patterns.
• Proactively identify, define, and communicate problems within the project or product team(s), and deliver practical and/or creative ways to fix them.
• Recognize when the proposed solution is not ideal and communicate with team leads to identify alternative solutions.

Required Skills:

• 3-5+ years of relevant product design/interaction design experience.
• Solid communication & presentation skills (verbal, visual, written)
• Confident in the process of conception, iteration, and polished design execution. 
• Deep knowledge of interaction design, information architecture, and visual design.
• Strong working knowledge of industry tools such as Figma, Sketch
• A portfolio demonstrating excellence in design — portfolio should showcase the candidate's work, provide details of their role on projects, and show examples of functional designs that they have developed from start to finish
• Expert working in Figma, Illustrator, and Photoshop]Proficiency with Google Docs (Slides, Docs, Sheets)