Product Designer
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Company Description:
Is your work making an impact? Are you spending more time asking for permission than creating results? In just a few years, with hard work and talented teammates, Yello has built transformative technologies to reinvent the recruiting space, empowering employers to manage and mobilize complex recruiting processes. Our client-partners range from Fortune 500 companies to high-growth startups, and even more impressive, our scheduling solution was named a Top HR Product of 2015 by Human Resource Executive Magazine. If you are looking for a company that has a start-up feel, as well as solid funding and stability, then you’re a natural for Yello!
About The Role:
The Product Designer is a key partner and collaborator with Product, Engineering and other cross-functional teams to provide the best possible ideas and solutions at every stage of the product design lifecycle. This role will plan and oversee product vision from a high level as well as execute designs at a detailed level for our suite of web and mobile products. In doing so, the product designer will act as a voice of the customer, the voice of good design and user experience, and a key partner to our Product and Engineering teams.
The Product Designer is a key partner and collaborator with Product, Engineering and other cross-functional teams to provide the best possible ideas and solutions at every stage of the product design lifecycle. This role will plan and oversee product vision from a high level as well as execute designs at a detailed level for our suite of web and mobile products. In doing so, the product designer will act as a voice of the customer, the voice of good design and user experience, and a key partner to our Product and Engineering teams.
How You'll Make An Impact:
The Product Design team at Yello falls within the broader Product Team that also includes Web Product Owners, Mobile Product Owners, Integration Management and Technical Communications. You'll be joining a team of fun, ambitious and passionate people who want to continue pushing the boundaries of our product portfolio!
- Lead the experience design and be able to communicate validated concepts to product owners, engineers, leadership, and customers.
- Use mixed usability testing methods to gather qualitative and quantitative data, translate that data into feature enhancements or new products.
- Have a holistic understanding of product design including visual design, experience design, and business acumen.
- Ability to actively and constantly collaborate, turning ideas into meaningful and impactful experiences
- Ability have a holistic view, understanding, and strong consideration of design and user experience, including layout, typography, color theory, visual hierarchy, and working knowledge of Sketch or Adobe CC
- Ability to conceptualize and communicate design ideas to stakeholders and promote product design within the organization
- Ability to deliver on short term needs that fit into long term vision, including creating sketches and user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and polished, production-ready user interface and visual designs
- Experience designing digital products on a variety of platforms, including web and mobile (iOS and Android)
- Strong understanding and consideration for user experience Working knowledge of Sketch for OS X, Adobe CC
- Ability to create polished, production-ready UI designs
- Ability to conceptualize and communicate design ideas to stakeholders of all levels within an organization
- Experience creating wireframes, user flows, visual design assets, and interactive prototypes/high fidelity mockups
- Understanding of overall customer needs and ability have a holistic view of design and user experience; ability to deliver on short term needs that fit into long term vision
- Familiarity with design sprints and the agile methodology
- Experience working with engineers to deploy and iterate on live software or apps.
- Ability to actively and constantly collaborate with other employees including product owners, designers, web and mobile engineers, quality-assurance engineers, leadership, and more
The Product Design team at Yello falls within the broader Product Team that also includes Web Product Owners, Mobile Product Owners, Integration Management and Technical Communications. You'll be joining a team of fun, ambitious and passionate people who want to continue pushing the boundaries of our product portfolio!
Additional Information:
At Yello, we work together to improve the hiring experience and power recruitment programs. Every Yello team member is empowered to grow each day and achieve new career accomplishments, and we always make time to celebrate team members’ successes. Our Loop office is steps away from public transportation, overlooks Lake Michigan and our open concept office offers plenty of space to collaborate with colleagues, or to work independently. We offer health, dental and vision insurance, a competitive 401k match, a reimbursement for fitness memberships and support for ongoing learning. Above all, we look forward to coming to work each day to solve interesting problems and make the impossible, possible.
- Yello is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
- Candidates local to Chicago are preferred.
- You must be authorized to work in the United States.
- Must be able to sit or stand for continuous periods of time
This role frequently communicates/interacts with individuals, must have strong written and oral communication skills
Yello reserves the right to assign or reassign the responsibilities and requirements to this job at any time
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