Product Designer, Core Experiences (Senior level)
Location
San Francisco, CA
Level
Senior
Department
Design
Type
Full - Time
Salary
Job Description
Posted on:
January 18, 2023
As a Product Designer focused on core experiences, you will have the opportunity to own end-to-end experiences. You will create thoughtful seams across applications with cohesion, consistency, and quality—and thereby further Grammarly’s vision of ubiquity and trustworthiness. This role is ideal for someone who thrives when thinking systematically and working with a holistic approach, has exceptional facilitation skills to drive design decisions cross-functionally, and can create beautiful and highly accessible user experiences at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design exceptional core user experiences, leading the entire product development lifecycle —from definition to implementation to optimization to product launches.
- Inform design decisions with user research, market trends, and business goals, balancing a variety of use cases, challenges, and opportunities across applications.
- Refine design work to reach a high bar for quality—balancing utility, delight, and creating learning opportunities for users.
- Collaborate with design system designers to use and evolve Grammarly’s design system and develop and integrate new interaction patterns, behaviors, and frameworks into the design system that others can use.
- Collaborate with a wide range of cross-functional teammates to learn about users, define product strategy, and design experiences for users with various abilities, contexts, and needs.
Job Requirements
- Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
- Is able to collaborate in person 3 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
- Has a relevant work history that shows evidence of a principled approach to design, user advocacy, and achieving business impact.
- Has excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively share ideas and solicits feedback to improve our collective work.
- Has a mindset for seeking root causes, approaching problems, evaluating trade-offs, and designing solutions systematically across applications to develop best-in-class user experiences.
- Works proactively to set goals, can manage multiple priorities, and is accountable for driving projects from beginning to end.
- Is proficient in design and prototyping tools.
- Is excited about contributing to creating an inclusive environment and inspiring teammates to explore and go beyond the status quo.
