Kettle is a team of passionate creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.
We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join one of our largest accounts. In this role, you’ll shepherd the product vision, design new features, and enhance existing ones while establishing scalable UX/UI patterns across platforms. As a Senior Designer, you’ll work across multiple workstreams as part of the larger account, partner with other designers, and work directly with clients to solve their design challenges.
Candidates should have:
- Interaction or product design experience in agency or related environments designing iOS native applications and websites
- Experience delivering user-focused solutions in high-complexity categories (financial services, telco, consumer tech, etc.)
- A clear communication style, with the ability to present design work internally and to senior level clients
- Experience working in agile product design/development models
- Experience working with AI in your design process, either through side projects or client work
- Experience with enterprise-scale design systems a plus
We’d like to know that you can:
- Design creative product experiences from initial concepting through detailed design and collaboration with development
- Deliver on multiple aspects of design, including visual design, UI, and UX, producing deliverables such as high-fidelity prototypes, production-ready designs, annotations, design systems, wireframes, and other deliverables
- Solve complex experience challenges while delivering beautiful, usable interfaces
- Work independently on projects with the guidance of your design director, owning key features and flows in a workstream
- Partner with teammates of different disciplines including product management, production, and development
- Work on a client-facing embedded team, building strong client relationships with a solid understanding of their business needs, goals, and how those intersect with the consumer’s experience
- Adapt to different working styles and processes, from quick turn optimization to blue sky visioning
- Embrace challenges and proactively ideate with fellow teammates and clients.
The target range of base compensation for this role is $110k-140k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.
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