As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll work on the User Experience team to create intuitive experiences for our internal employees, clients, and customers. You’ll help maintain our Design System which will include Visual and Interaction Design standards. You’ll be working on and sometimes leading projects from the concept until launch. This means you’ll be responsible for researching, designing, testing, and measuring the success of the experiences you create.
Responsibilities
Help maintain Passport’s Design System which will include Visual and Interaction Design Standards
Use and help maintain our Design System Pattern Library
Conduct user research to understand the needs of our users and to make sure the right problem is being solved
Help organize and facilitate Design Thinking Workshops to empathize with users, understand their journey, challenge assumptions, define the problem to solve, and create and test solutions
Create personas to better understand who the users of our software are
Build journey maps to understand how our users interact with our product and the challenges they are facing
Create low fidelity wireframes and high fidelity prototypes to gain consensus from partners, stakeholder, and clients
Test your wireframes or prototypes with users to make sure the experience is intuitive and addressing the users’ needs
Collaborate with Product Designers, Product Owners, Engineering, and Business Analysts to bring to life the experiences we create
Help establish success metrics and use insights gathered from metrics to inform design creation and enhancements to designs once launched
Qualifications
5+ years experience in a User Experience Design role such as Product Design, Visual Design, Interaction Design or Information Architecture,
Experience with Design Thinking methodologies, Personas and Journey Mapping
Strong visual design, information architecture, and interaction design skills
Self-starter able to work well in a team or independently
Excellent team player with strong leadership and influencing skills
Experience or exposure to researching methodologies like usability testing and user interviews
Experience using rapid prototyping and design software like Adobe XD, Axure, Figma, InVision or Sketch
Ability to communicate ideas clearly to stakeholders
Background in working on User Experience teams with Content Strategy and User Researcher type roles
A willingness to speak for the user and an understanding of when to push back on behalf of the user
Comfortable working in a fluid environment but willing to take the initiative to add structure when appropriate
Ability to balance and support multiple efforts and meet deadlines
An understanding of accessibility best practices
Passionate about delivering amazing user experiences
Ability to develop a deep understanding of complex products and their use cases
About You
You have an entrepreneurial mindset and an urge to challenge the status quo. You speak up in an environment that values speaking up and are a skilled listener and collaborator capable of engaging diverse viewpoints to implement the best solution. You thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment and enjoy working directly alongside product and engineering teams. Above all, you’re excited to join, contribute to and grow the User Experience team at Passport!
What You’ll Get
Competitive pay according to Passport’s market-driven pay bands
Flexible Time Off
Fun and Focused Fridays - No meetings on Fridays! Plus you get every other Friday off to focus on your non-work life!
Paid sick leave
Generous parental leave benefits
About Passport
Passport sets cities in motion, helping to create more livable, equitable communities. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Passport is a transportation software company, delivering the operating system that enables cities to manage vehicle interactions with streets and sidewalks. With Passport, city leaders increase convenience, efficiency, and compliance today and tomorrow. Trusted by more than 1,200 cities, universities, and agencies, including Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Miami, Passport is one of the fastest-growing companies on the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 lists, and was named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2020.
We are keenly focused on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - in short, we are passionate that all people deserve to have a sense of Belonging at Passport. We are so passionate about this that we created Passport WeBelong which is an internal group of employees from all teams, levels, and backgrounds across Passport who serve to educate and guide Passport in being an employer of choice for all people.
Passport provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
