What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Designer Consultant position at KYYBA Inc?
Job Title: Product Designer Consultant
Duration: Open ended
Location: Dearborn, MI
Shift: : A shift
Hybrid Position
Job Description: "This role is hybrid, which means the candidate must be
located within a drivable distance to Dearborn, MI. Also, the candidate if
selected might be asked to come into the office up to 2 or 3 days per week."
Quality Analytics (OA) is a product group that develops on-premises and
cloud analytic solutions. Our product line designers oversee a portfolio of
product teams, identifying patterns and use cases across the portfolio to
better serve their end users. They apply a design thinking mindset, user
research skills, and business strategy to align teams around a human-centric
roadmap. They collaborate closely with product owners, product managers, and
fellow designers across their portfolio.
What you’ll be able to do:
• Take the stage. Facilitate and lead design thinking sessions with various
technical and non- technical stakeholders
• Conduct generative user research such as contextual inquiry, ethnography,
field research, user interviews, and stakeholder interviews
• Transform user research into assets such as affinity walls, journey maps,
empathy maps, story boards, personas, etc.
• Justify your research strategy and insights to stakeholders (un)familiar
with the UX discipline
• Work as a collaborative team member with business partners, product
managers, developers and fellow designers.
• Provide mentoring, teaching, and leadership to fellow designers and team
members
• Evangelize UX within your team and across the department
Skills Required: User Research, Wireframing/Mockups, Prototyping, Usability
Testing, Task Flow, Information Architecture, Peer Leadership, Team
Collaboration, Project Management
Skills Preferred: InVision, Sketch, Excel, Word
Experience Required: 3 years proven experience in the UX, product
management, or a mixture of the two
* 2 years of experience in user research
* 2 years of experience in facilitating design thinking and
ideation workshops
Experience Preferred: Passion for growing your skills, tackling challenging
problems, and sharing your learnings with other
* Research chops, strong leadership skills, and diversity of
experience are all a plus!
* 3 years of relevant product management experience
* Ability to build credibility and trust with team members and
senior leaders
* Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing
priorities.
* Prior member of a Lean/Agile product team
Education: Bachelors’ or master’s degree in human-computer interaction,
human factors, psychology, communications, or equivalent
