BRAINTRUST is Hiring a Product Designer Near San Francisco, CA

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• JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
• LOCATION: Remote - Work from anywhere (TimeZone: GMT/WET | Partial overlap)
• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $40 – $45/hr
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week - Long term

ABOUT THE HIRING PROCESS:

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THE OPPORTUNITY

Skills & Experience

● Have 2 years of experience as a designer who has delivered groundbreaking digital products as an individual contributor.
● Have a strong portfolio that clearly demonstrates your product design process and work.
● Have strong platform-specific knowledge of both iOS and Android.
● Able to communicate your design decisions effectively to necessary stakeholders.
● Always strive to understand who you are solving problems for. Using data-driven approaches but also being aware of when you are basing decisions off your own assumptions.
● An emphasis on good visual design.
● Think and work atomically when it comes to building UI.
● Always thinking about inclusivity and accessibility when it comes to your design decisions.
● Have laser focus for minute details and can also hone in on the bigger picture of the problem you’re solving, connecting all the dots.
● Are able to own your design process and work independently within your multi-disciplinary team.
● Strive to improve yourself on a daily basis, taking and providing constructive feedback to and from members of your team.
● Have a strong desire to raise the bar of your design team, always actively contributing to better ways of working.

What you’ll be working on

About the Role

The purpose of the Product Designer is to be the brains behind the features our client release, to conceptualise and implement innovative ideas and designs that have the user in mind at every stage of the design process.

You will define how our customers interact with us, with a global reach of 31 countries your designs will have a global impact and portray to the market how they are incorporating the wants and needs of multiple customer bases.

They are committed to providing aworld-class standard for our customers, through research into behavioural-changing features and to validate designs you will look into best practices and methodologies to adhere to the high expectations they set.

It will be a joint venture between the Product Designer and the Product Managers to shape the product strategy and product vision, and a collaborative effort between the entire Product team to ensure they are consistent with our brand vision.

Key Accountabilities

● Working in a cross-functional, multi-disciplinary team. You’ll own the end-to-end design process, starting with the initial discovery phase, defining the experience at a high level, right through to building out and meticulously documenting the final UI for developer handoff.
● Collaborate and communicate with many stakeholders across the organization, producing high quality documentation to facilitate meetings and interactions where product and design are involved.
● Proactively identify problems and opportunities to be both studied and quantified, and formulate relevant questions and hypotheses to be validated.
● Working closely with a Product manager to define your team’s Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) as well as each project’s success metrics.
● A highly active contributor to our client’s product design team. They’re a close-knit group of individuals who really care about the betterment of their team’s processes and constantly strive to improve them. Every single member of their team does their part to ensure they can operate at the highest possible level.

About Our Client

Our client was founded with a rebellious spirit, and a lofty vision; to truly simplify your finances, so you can focus on what matters most in life. That’s why our client puts your finances simply at your fingertips, so you can make smart choices on how to spend, send, see and save your money. They help you control your financial life, so you can go out and live the life you want to live.

With our client, you can spend from all your accounts, track your spending behavior, see unique insights - all with additional security to help keep your money safe. They put you in control of your money in one beautiful place for the first time.

They’re developing a ground-breaking product with their customers at the heart of everything they do. They have funding from the biggest names in tech investment, and a visionary C-suite who wants everyone who joins this remarkable adventure, to have the opportunity to masterfully develop their expertise.

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Braintrust Job ID: 6174

C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.

Braintrust values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

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