Product Designer Job Description
Product designer
provides a portfolio of work that demonstrates creative problem solving skills, conceptual and strategic thinking, sensitivity to typography, and market-appropriate design.
Product Designer Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective product designer job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included product designer job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Participate in the ongoing Sony Integrations work by taking the lead on creating associated designs
Work alongside other design team members to contribute towards the development of great prototypes for the digital and physical products
Create internal part drawings, tool drawings, mylars, layouts in support of the Engineering Department or other departments as required
Interpret and apply design and engineering criteria on moderately complex components
Create design concepts
Ensure, with the cooperation of other Co-Ex-Tec departments and Corporate that the division achieves and maintains the highest possible Customer rating for satisfaction
Creates designs, concepts, and layouts for internal banner ads, pushdowns, sales-driven contests
Participate in iterative design team frameworks, design sprints, crazy eights.
Facilitate and lead design reviews/discussions
Collaborate with Product Managers and Developers and create visual design and strategy for prototyping and pilot efforts
Product Designer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Product Designer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: SCRUM, ADA, UCD, CSWP, CSWA, CSPO, CAD, CATIA, UX, TDWI
Education for Product Designer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the product designer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Design, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Visual Design, Industrial Design, Engineering, Psychology, Product Design, Computer Science, Sociology
Skills for Product Designer
Desired skills for product designer include:
CSS
HTML
Sketch
Design principles and methods
InVision
Illustrator
Adobe Creative Suite
Typography
Android Material Design Guidelines
IOS Human Interface Guidelines
Desired experience for product designer includes:
Self-motivated, natural problem solver, and with demonstrated ability to oversee multiple projects simultaneously, both independently, collaboratively in a team environment
1-2 years of Watch Design experience is highly preferred
Flexible, must have the ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines in a fast paced environment
7+ years of Designing experience within a consumer-focused Tech or Media company
Online portfolio or PDF file with previous work
Play a senior role in the delivery outstanding experiences and results, working collaboratively within a cross-disciplinary team that includes UX, visual design, and content
Product Designer Examples
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Product Designer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of product designer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for product designer
- Work with internal and external tool makers, fabricators, and process partners to optimize designs and assemblies
- Develop design concepts from verbal, written, or physical descriptions and/or specifications while applying Design for Manufacture and Design for Assembly concepts
- Participate in the construction of prototype parts and assemblies other experimental and pre-production types of activities
- Review state-provided tax rate, rule and tax form issues
- Identify and document corrective actions for defect resolution
- Identify rate/rule updates and enhancements in response to customer feedback, tax law/policy changes and tax rate changes
- Interact with design team to understand processes and capture business requirements
- Interact with development and quality assurance efforts to validate tax calculations and tax content
- Confers with the department engineers, Engineering Supervisor & Product and Engineering Manager to resolve design problems and to prepare accurate drawings of a new design
- Applies knowledge of the product to specific applications
Qualifications for product designer
- Ability to collaborate with other designers and developers to envision and iterate concepts
- Create internal design systems such as a style guide and component libraries
- Improve our understanding of our users' through user research and usability testing
- Improve our design processes and methods
- Participating in user research with potential or existing customers
- Dreaming up and exploring new concepts and features with the Venmo team
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of product designer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for product designer
- Turn complicated problems into graceful and simple solutions
- User test your designs and iterate based on their insights
- Discuss your designs with engineers, and have a well established understanding of how your designs are built, and what their technical limitations are
- Translate your designs into multiple screens and multiple platforms
- Prepare and maintain presentation boards and line sheets
- Partner across functional departments, such as merchandising, production and sourcing
- Attend fittings with product managers and buyers to ensure quality product and brand standards
- Work with manager to adhere to corporate calendar timing
- Edit team’s work and offer constructive feedback that leads to better execution
- Communicate design rationale to audience and provide documentation
Qualifications for product designer
- Best-in-class project deliverables (concepts, rationale, assets, comps )
- Proficiency of visual design discipline – typography, grids, color theory, iconography, composition)
- Best-in-class project deliverables (concepts, designs, schematics, flows )
- A history of designing engaging experiences
- Significant working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud
- Highly proficient in digital content including websites, social media, blogs and mobile/tablet applications, video
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a product designer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for product designer
- Prepare sketches, illustrations, detailed mechanical drawings and/or blueprints using computer-aided design equipment and programs
- Recommend appropriate materials, finishes, and colors in response to market trends and the competitive landscape
- Prepare client presentation documents
- Support sample development and marketing tools to demonstrate product capability, including knowledge of carpet pattern and design
- Support the Product Design practice area in the firm’s Asia region by working with various teams within and outside of Gensler to help create new products and/or systems of products for the built environment
- Develop concepts and solutions that apply your understanding of user problems, product vision, and technology capabilities
- Ideate new product ideas to accomplish ambitious goals
- Critically analyse the success of your solutions and iterate
- Collaborate closely with project managers and engineers
- Collaborate with engineering, design, and marketing to prioritize product direction
Qualifications for product designer
- An online portfolio with focus on UI, UX and IA for web and mobile technologies
- Deep knowledge of current innovations and standard methodologies in UI design
- Proven ability to turn complex product design problems into intuitive solutions
- Experience participating in and conducting usability studies
- Solid portfolio of product design with examples of products built and shipped to users
- Solid design foundation (typography, grid, form, composition, color, ), but ability to break the rules deliberately from time to time!
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a product designer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for product designer
- Designing art assets for our products, partners, and marketing collateral
- Working with developers to track, measure, and optimize user interfaces and experience
- Working with management to quickly prototype ideas
- Thorough product design process - from UX to UI, including multiple solutions to complex and challenging product tasks and deep understanding of the problem you need to solve
- Work closely with the design and the product team to maintain a high level of deliveries both on the UX and the UI side
- Outstanding portfolio of innovative, solid work
- Experience designing and conducting usability tests with customers
- Demonstrable track record of success in simplifying complex web interfaces and a passion for designing compelling consistent user experiences
- 5+years of experience working in interactive design or UX roles
- Experience designing for social sites and B2B web applications
Qualifications for product designer
- A comprehensive understanding of design and usability best practices related to web and mobile - basic principals of typography, color theory and standards for e-commerce
- Execute against Lean UX principles — quick, iterative, & user centered
- Apply strategic thinking to design and deliver innovative end-to-end user experiences which balance user needs, business goals, and technological realities across platforms
- Directly responsible for delivering UI specifications, wireframes and prototypes
- You're an experience whisperer, and you can distill complicated problems into simple and elegant solutions
- We love making things beautiful and hope you feel the same
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of product designer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for product designer
- Create market specific color lines
- Create innovative carpet constructions under the direction of the Lead Product Designer and advisement from the Design Director through pile height, shifts, yarn arrangement, color placement and texture
- Provide images, inspiration, concepts, and design experiences to The Hive for product ideas
- Collaborate with Hive Team in keeping a cohesive and orderly system, either digital or printed, for referencing patterns, thread-ups, constructions created
- Creating viable product concepts that obtain the goals and objectives for assigned accounts
- Collaborating with the Cost Analyst to ensure that target margins are achieved
- Accountability for all aspects of the product from concept through production
- Ensuring product concepts are designed, developed, costed, and reviewed on schedule
- Providing creative direction and actively participating in strategy meetings
- Ensuring that product samples and the corresponding costing system product worksheet details are accurate
Qualifications for product designer
- You look for opportunities to solve problems in unusual and innovative ways
- Experience designing for the web and understanding how to apply both form and function within it while maintaining simplicity
- You construct your own iconography, set your own guidelines, and build easy-to-navigate documents
- You read everything and will paste an html heart character before your first name on the next page
- Experience in typography and print media
- Strong interest in data visualization and/or animation