Yale and August U.S. · 3 days ago
Senior Product Designer
Greater Chicago Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$115K/yr - $187K/yr
5+ years expFortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape the development of their Yale August B2C products, focusing on building smart security solutions that enhance user experiences across digital and physical interfaces.
Consumer ElectronicsInternet of ThingsSmart Home
Responsibilities
Using your full range of skills (UX design, design thinking, interaction design, prototyping, visual design) to contribute to elegant user experiences that span digital (mobile, web) and physical (devices) interfaces, guided by market and product requirements to solve real problems for real people
Designing independently and taking design ownership throughout the entire product lifecycle, in multiple product areas
Consistently leveraging all available quantitative and qualitative data to inform design decisions and creatively suggesting data sources when they are not readily available
Communicating and closely collaborating with software and hardware product managers, engineers, and executive stakeholders
Advocating for changes, refinements, and ongoing improvements to the user experience
Working across the entire design stack including helping to refine understanding of problems and needs, ideating, iterating, prototyping interactions in detail, and producing high-fidelity visuals
Playing a lead role in maintaining documentation of user experience in accordance with design practices
Facilitating workshops with cross-functional teams and with multiple stakeholders and constituencies. Leading design activities and workshops like journey mapping, design critiques
Planning and leading user testing
Working with ecosystem and business partners to develop user experiences that work seamlessly for people, across multiple physical and digital technologies
Mentor and support junior and mid-level designers by providing constructive feedback, sharing best practices, and foster a collaborative, growth-oriented design culture through regular design reviews and informal coaching
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in design-related disciplines
2+ years of design focus on IoT and connected products
BA/BS degree in a design-related discipline or equivalent experience
Expert proficiency with Figma, and experience with Jira
Strong experience working with design systems
Strong interaction design and prototyping skills
A deep understanding of user-centered design principles
Strong ability to execute polished, pixel-perfect visual designs
Ability to create interactive prototypes in Protopie
Experience working independently through an end-to-end product design process as a part of a scrum software team (product owners, mobile, backend, and quality assurance engineers)
Strong communication and collaboration skills and experience working with diverse cross-functional teams
Ability to make effective design decisions, work independently and self-organize
Ability to turn complex physical and digital technologies into simple, elegant, intuitive experiences that make the complexities of hybrid physical and digital IoT products go unnoticed by consumers
Ability to think holistically about user experiences across diverse product categories and focus on all possible states and micro-interactions (error handling, edge cases, success states) with relentless attention to detail
Ability to work well across the business (engineering and business operations), both independently and in diverse and collaborative team environments
Ability to identify usage models, use cases, and user journeys in collaboration with product managers in a scrum team context
Mastery of design tools, and willingness to adopt new tools and skills needed to bring designs and prototypes to life
Preferred
Knowledge of Swift UI and Jetpack Compose capabilities is a plus
Benefits
Robust health plans
A market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution
Product discounts
Flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy)
Inclusive fertility / adoption benefits
Numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work
Company
Yale and August U.S.
Yale and August Home are leaders in the smart lock and smart home security space.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$73MKey Investors
Bessemer Venture PartnersMaveron
2022-12-01Acquired
2017-07-26Series C· $25M
2016-05-19Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Yves Béhar
Chief Creative Officer and Co-founder
Christopher Dow
CTO
Recent News
2025-08-13
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