Product Designer

BuddyBoss (BuddyBoss.com) is a leading provider of WordPress-driven solutions, for online community platforms, E-learning, and membership sites.

We are looking for a product designer (UX/UI designer) to join our product team, with a strong understanding of user-centered design and the mindset required to create high-quality software products. Applicants should be disciplined in problem-solving and able to design products that will solve problems for end-users.

As our product designer, you’ll be our go-to person for designing features that achieve both the business and user requirements.

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, document, and validate the needs of the business stakeholders
• Analyze customer feedback and activity, in order to iterate products to enhance the user experience
• Develop an understanding of our users through the use of user research and focus groups
• Demonstrate your ideas to stakeholders using wireframes and conceptual designs
• Build and maintain our design systems; ensuring our standards, guidelines and best practices are adhered to
• Prepare designs for developers using detailed UX flows, prototypes and clearly-written acceptance criteria
• Validate designs through the use of usability testing and user interviews
• Assist the product team throughout development to ensure deliverables meet the approved scope and design
  

Required Skills and Experience

• 3+ years experience as a product designer, UX Designer, UI Designer or similar role
• Strong portfolio of design projects
• Background in product design and research
• Familiarity with interaction design and information architecture
• Proficiency with design software (e.g. Sketch, Figma, etc )
• Experience working with a business-to-business (B2B) product
• Knowledge of WordPress software development
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong ability to solve problems and design solutions
• Outstanding organizational and time management skills
• Post Secondary Education, preferably in a technical field
  

Nice-to-Have Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies (such as the definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
• Experience using product management tools such as Product Board, Product Plan, etc
• Experience working with apps built with React Native
• Proficiency with the WordPress Coding Standards, approaches, and common APIs
• Understanding of issue tracking tools such as Jira
• Experience working with remote teams is a big plus. Our team is mostly distributed with team members in over 10 countries.
• Experience with BuddyBoss or BuddyPress