Kiva · 5 days ago

Principal Product Designer

United States

Contract

Remote

Senior Level

$160K/yr - $180K/yr

7+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Understand current product strategy and OKRs, in order to contribute meaningful OKRs for upcoming project. Be a thought partner to Product Managers in building a coherent vision for future products, services, and features

Partner with Product Managers and Engineers to establish shared objectives for your initiatives and take the lead in the design process: creating design roadmaps, framing problems and opportunities, researching use cases and users, defining insights, prototyping concepts and producing launch-ready assets.

Identify opportunities and kickstart initiatives to advance Kiva’s Product Design culture: such as evolving our design system and building better processes for Product Design

Plan and lead reviews, pitches, and feedback sessions in order to socialize your strategy and emphasize value delivered with key stakeholders.

Build trust up, down, and across to accelerate your success and create a holistic understanding of user needs, business requirements, and technical constraints.

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Product DesignUser ExperienceVisual DesignUser ResearchNew Product DevelopmentRetention & Engagement MethodologiesProblem-SolvingCreativityCommunicationPresentationAdaptability

Required

7 to 9 years as a Product Designer designing best-of-class digital products - ideally consumer products, nonprofit, and/or financial services

User experience, visual design, user research (design/ethnographic research), high competency in presentation and pitching, new product development, retention & engagement methodologies.