Senior Product Designer

The role As a Senior Product Designer, you deliver value from ideation to implementation. You have a strong understanding of branding, Lean design practices and UX. You have a meticulous eye for detail, with the ability to visualise and communicate the ‘big picture’ product vision. You are able to draw on your experience and knowledge of best practices to create innovative digital solutions. You are pragmatic, and understand the need to balance business requirements with design excellence to achieve our clients’ goals. You are a people person. As a trusted consultant and experienced designer, you develop a rapport with your clients and help them through the product development process. You are an integral part of the product team at Red Badger, and work in client-facing cross-functional teams building digital products. You work closely with your team to be a champion of user needs, brand and the product vision so your team can deliver the right thing in the right way. You take great pride in creating innovative products. You mentor more junior members of the design guild and are actively involved in cultivating Red Badger design principles. You are a great storyteller and a communicator. You can facilitate workshops confidently and plan discovery and innovation activities. You know the importance of an outcome-focused mindset, and use your craft to produce designs at various levels of fidelity to bring the vision to life. You are comfortable working closely with Product and Technology teams to build the thing right, iterating fast and often. The Senior Product Designer will focus on: • Successfully delivering client outcomes within a cross-functional team • Consulting with client stakeholders to execute their product and design strategy • Evangelising Human-Centred Design, Design Thinking, Lean and Agile methodologies to deliver quality digital products • Supporting the growth of more junior product designers, and Red Badgers’ expertise Key Responsibilities Discipline expertise • Lead product discovery and design sessions with client and users • Create and implement the design strategy, from discovery through to delivery • Focus on end-user needs to deliver products with impact • Create compelling prototypes to test with end-users and share with stakeholders throughout the product life cycle, using feedback and learnings to iterate. • Work on design and front-end implementation within a cross-disciplinary team, through creation of design systems, style guides, prototypes and other assets to bring product ideas to life • Design and facilitate workshops and design sprints • Experiment and make data-driven decisions for your designs, using Agile/Lean methodologies • Drive continuous improvement and quality by championing design principles and the value they bring • Engage clients and your team to ensure the proposed design balances business goals and technical constraints in addition to user needs Collaborative leader • Influence stakeholders and get early buy-in for the design process and the outcomes • Coach your team and clients in Design Thinking, Lean, and Human-Centred Design • Influence product roadmap activities and backlog prioritisation, to deliver high value outcomes Client influencer • Communicate your designs and decisions with a broad range of client stakeholders • Align client stakeholders on the product and creative strategies, and desired outcomes • Advocate and introduce user-centred processes to your clients’ digital products • Become a trusted advisor to your clients by collaborating with them to deliver business and user value Build Red Badger’s product capability • Contribute to the development of the product design discipline within Red Badger • Support the development of Red Badg