Product Designer
Yello’s talent acquisition software helps companies reinvent how they recruit, to hire the right candidates at the right time. Our client-partners include more than 70 Fortune 500 companies and dozens more high-growth organizations. We’re proud to be a 2016 Built in Chicago Moxie Award winner for Best B2B Company and an Illinois Technology Association CityLIGHTS Award winner for Outstanding Technology Development. We continue to grow quickly, and we’re looking to hire people who believe nothing is impossible, love to learn and be curious, can be accountable for success, always enjoy the journey and will own their personality. If this is you, come grow your career with Yello.
The purpose of this job is to be 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.
We will expect you to 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, we will expect you to 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.
Key deliverables in this role include feedback and designs along every phase of the product design lifecycle, including initial wireframes all the way through high-fidelity interactive products. We work using Agile Development methodologies, so the ability to think quickly, design quickly, and adapt quickly are all valuable skills.
More specifically, qualifications and responsibilities include:
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
A portfolio including product or interface design is required upon applying.
The Product Design team at Yello falls within the broader Product Team that also includes Web and 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!
- Yello is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified 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, full-time, for any employer.