Sr Digital Product Designer - Internal Tools

What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50 year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

The Senior Digital Product Designers at Southern Glazer’s work with one or more product portfolios and report to the Director, Digital Product Design. This role is focused on our internal native and web based applications that support our internal and field sales associates. Within a portfolio, a senior product designer has the responsibility to :

Primary Responsibilities

Ideate and develop design concepts

Understand the product’s users and their needs and buying habits

Lead problem-framing & ideation sessions

Lead design concepting and storyboarding to map out ideas

Create design hypotheses and explore divergent ideas and potential solutions

Prototype and iterate :

Create user flows, storyboards, high quality wireframes, low and high-fidelity app design prototypes

Collaborate with design researchers to continuously learn & iterate design work

Present design work :

Lead design reviews with executive-level colleagues

Provide solid rationale for design decisions

Ensure design coherence and advocate for design systems

Help to define the product’s design language and ensure consistency of interaction design patterns

Additional Primary Responsibilities

Mentor others :

Model collaboration and thought leadership, help colleagues develop and articulate design POVs

Collaborate with app development :

Close collaboration with app developers on foundations, frameworks, annotations and iterations throughout the development process

Partner with release engineers and QA teammates to ensure design intent is realized and products are successfully brought to market

Partner with analytics to ensure apps are appropriately tagged to understand performance

Partner with product management

Support the OKRs of product portfolios as a senior design partner

Help the portfolio director understand customer needs through research, interviews, workshops, story mapping, and similar techniques

Minimum Qualifications

8 years of digital product design experience, inclusive of mobile app design, web design, and design systems

5 years of experience designing enterprise-level e-commerce applications (web and / or native app)

Portfolio inclusive of digital project work showing end-to-end experience : from ideation to launch

Familiarity with the full digital product lifecycle, using product roadmaps, story mapping, writing design stories, designing features, direct collaboration with development teams

Expert knowledge of :

Design & prototyping tools (Figma, Protopie, Framer, Canvaa)

Collaboration tools (Miro, Confluence, Jira)

Global design systems

Responsive design best practices

Ability to generate, visualize and prototype new concepts to demonstrate and test with users and stakeholders

Physical Demands

Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing / keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine

Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping

May require occasional lifting / lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action / EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and / or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.