Freelance Senior Product Designer
Hybrid
Contractor
#Design
#Product Design
#Digital Experience
#Visual Design
#Prototyping
#UI Design
#Brand Design
#Iconography
#Art Direction
#InVision
#Framer
#Design Tools
At ustwo we design and build digital products, services, and immersive experiences that people love and businesses need. We are seeking an experienced freelance Senior Product Designer to join the team in our New York Studio.
We believe passionately that diverse teams help us make better services and products. We actively hire for cultural growth. We welcome people of all ages, stories and backgrounds.
About the role
As a Senior Product Designer at ustwo, you’ll get your hands dirty tackling detailed business problems while collaborating with other designers, developers, and project managers in order to define, build, and iterate solutions for our clients and partners. You will have the opportunity to use your full range of design skills in order to push the boundaries of what is possible.
At ustwo NYC, we are working towards being a product design and immersive technology powerhouse. To do this, we structure our team around versatile designers who are constantly developing and broadening their wide skill sets. Our teams are highly skilled and multifaceted, collaborating across all disciplines involved in the design and technology process. Our products span across mobile and web, as well as immersive technologies such as AR / VR, all the way to wearables and IoT devices.
Location
This role could be hybrid with 1-2 days in our Brooklyn studio, or fully remote if in EST time zone.
Time frame
Please note: ustwo does not currently have any open positions that we are actively recruiting for. However, we love meeting talented people and opportunities may come up at any time. If you’d like to express your interest in future opportunities with us, please introduce yourself through this general application.
Requirements
- Intuitive to the needs of the clients, designers and cross-discipline teams.
- Ability to clearly articulate challenges and opportunities.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and are able to execute in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work in an iterative fashion, collaborating closely with various project teams and clients in order to define problems and goals.
- Ability to design elegant flows and interactions for a global audience across platforms.
- Ability to give and receive feedback from other designers and cross-disciplinary partners.
Why we’re excited about you
- A self-starter motivated to solve business problems and driven to innovate and define new products / services.
- Focused on pixel perfection. You sweat the details to ensure that you and the team deliver remarkable products on time and on budget.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to execute in a fast-paced environment.
- Experienced and confident in visualizing and prototyping concepts quickly in order to communicate ideas.
- Able to understand the bigger picture and can strategically, systematically assess opportunities and challenges.
- Excited by the idea of working with emerging tech / platforms.
- Someone who accepts, communicates, and resolves critique gracefully.
YOU HAVE…
- Minimum 5 years of cross-platform design experience (Web, android, iOS).
- Demonstrated experience with end-to-end product design.
- Core strengths in visual design, spanning UI, brand, iconography, and art direction.
- Experience working with common prototyping tools (InVision, Framer)
- Strong knowledge of design tools and workflows.
- Proficiency in, and examples of, how you resolve difficult design challenges.
- A solid understanding of how behavior and transition impact design.
- Clear written and verbal communication style.
All of our projects will require a full-time/40-hour a week contractor. Please provide a link to your online portfolio as well as any released products or experiences you have contributed to.
Interested but think your experience doesn’t perfectly align with this job description? That’s ok. Research shows underrepresented groups in particular are less inclined to apply for jobs where they don’t meet 100% of the requirements listed. We’d still love to hear from you if you feel passionate about this role! We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our colleagues, clients, community, and the users of our products. We don’t have all the answers but we’re on a journey, and we are learning together.
About ustwo
ustwo combines expertise in product and service development, ventures and gaming to make a meaningful impact on the challenges companies and individuals face in contemporary culture.
Over the years, we have been carving out a reputation in the space between digital product development and new experience design.
Our deep product development knowledge, our design heritage and our leadership at the edges of technology and culture, means we are capable of providing fresh creative and strategic direction on genuinely new experiences, as well as deep technical expertise on implementation - never disconnecting strategy from implementation.
This combination of capabilities is rare and valuable, particularly in a market that’s seeing ever-increasing convergence of entertainment, gaming, content, commerce, and platforms.
