Senior Product Designer at Nearform

This is a contract remote position for those based in Brazil.

At Nearform, we're passionate about building exceptional digital experiences for our clients. We're a global tech consultancy specializing in software solutions for enterprises, and we're looking for a talented Senior Product Designer to join our growing team.

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to work on challenging projects, collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, and clients to define and design innovative digital products. You'll play a crucial role in shaping the user experience for some of the world's biggest companies, tackling complex problems, and pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

We're seeking a highly creative and collaborative individual with a strong understanding of user-centered design principles and a proven ability to translate user needs into elegant and effective solutions. If you're excited to join a dynamic team and contribute to impactful projects, we encourage you to apply.

You will be responsible for:

• Creating design solutions based on user research data, user goals, and business requirements
• Producing designs that illustrate optimal user experiences, deliverables may include storyboards, flows, wireframes, prototypes, and vision pieces.
• Working closely with engineers and product managers to iterate and deliver flawlessly.
• Advocating for your design solutions by putting them in the context of business and user goals.
• Expert understanding of modern standard digital product design tools, such as Sketch and Figma.
• Working with the design team to help form a supportive and collaborative design environment in which we can all level up our design skills together.

You have:

• 5+ years of design experience in interactive digital design and/or visual design
• Experience designing user experiences for user-focused software & services
• Experience designing consumer and/or enterprise applications
• A well-thought-through portfolio that represents end-to-end customer journeys, as well as deep design thinking in the visual space.
• Breadth and depth across 2 or 3 categories of usability, interaction, and visual design.
• Ability to create polished design prototypes, mockups, wireframes, and style guides in an iterative environment.
• Fluency in best practices for interaction design, user-centered design process, and UI patterns for desktop and mobile experiences
• Familiarity with technical constraints impacting design patterns across platforms
• Expert knowledge of industry-standard design tools such as Sketch, Figma, and Abstract
• Experience working directly with product and engineering teams in a collaborative software development environment
• Motion graphic and/or illustration skills are a plus, ideally After Effects to Lottie.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Please include URLs for an online portfolio demonstrating your design process, UX flows, interaction patterns, and visual design skills in addition to your resume.

Benefits 

• Work remotely; we have a genuine dedication to work/life balance. 
• Work flexibly; we appreciate there are more important things in life than work so our flexible working culture allows you to work around what matters - school run, no problem!
• The Wellness Hub: We have a genuine commitment to fostering/improving NearFormers’ wellbeing; we offer resources and support, including a NearForm advice line which offers confidential support for anything from relationship issues to staying healthy.
• Other benefits according to your location.

Please get in touch to discuss remuneration and benefits package. 

Although we are widely dispersed, NearFormers are a tightly-knit team. We trust one another and care about our colleagues. We all get together in person at our annual company retreat, of course when we’re not faced with a global pandemic! Building on our open-source origins, we promote the sharing of thoughts, knowledge and ideas.

NearForm is committed to shaping a better world in all that we do. Our global team is built based on respect, inclusivity, diversity and excellence.