Senior Staff Product Designer

This job is being posted to Silicon Florist because it is potentially open to remote candidates. Feel free to contact me if you’d like to learn about Episerver before applying. I am a PDX-based remote Episerver employee. [email protected]

Senior Staff Product Designer

We start the new chapter of Episerver as we proudly join forces with Optimizely to create a new wave of digital leaders through transforming digital experience creation and optimization. Episerver is consistently ranked as a market leader in digital experience creation, supporting the digital journeys of 9,000+ global brands, while Optimizely is the world’s leader in experience optimization. Combined, these two powerhouses create the most advanced digital experience platform in the industry. The combination of creation and optimization will enable companies across all segments and industries to take advantage of what content, commerce, personalization and experimentation can bring to their business and to their customers.

The scale of our product has created tremendous potential for growth with Episerver + Optimizely – growth of teams, growth of influence, and growth of personal careers. If you are looking to work on the next generation of digital technologies in a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment, apply! We’re just getting started...

The goal of our product designers is to deeply understand our customer’s problems and design solutions to those problems. They are part of the entire product development process, from concept to launch. They work closely with product managers, UX researchers, and engineers to understand the customer problem, iterate on solutions, and ship finished designs to customers.

This role will work with our application experience teams, whose mission it is to make the most accurate and fastest decisions about their business while using experimentation to deliver unbeatable digital experiences. This role requires a strong aptitude for experimentation.

Qualifications
• Strong understanding of the user-centered design process, with a proven ability to deliver projects
• High fidelity user interface and interaction design skills, with proven experience in data visualization.
• Loves to build prototypes, even better if these are in code
• Open to rapid iteration, feedback, and experimentation. Always seeks customer input and understanding.
• Ability to connect design decisions back to business goals, and to work with stakeholders across the company to build consensus
• Exceptional communication skills, and the ability to clearly explain design decisions to anyone in the company
• Able to think at a high level about product strategy and vision (not just 'how it should look' but 'what we should build') as an effective partner for product managers
• A desire to learn and curious by nature – about people, technology, data, new industries, and the world
• Empathy — for customers and your fellow employees
• A strong portfolio showcasing product design work, which includes data visualizations or analytics examples
• 8+ years of product design experience