Lead Product Designer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Kissmetrics is a next-generation people-based analytics platform for web and mobile that enables businesses to grow new and existing customer sales via person-centric data. With over 800 customers worldwide, Kissmetrics is a leading provider of people-based analytics. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA. More information on the company and its services can be viewed online at www.kissmetrics.com.

Job Description

We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer to join our team in San Francisco. At Kissmetrics, the design culture starts with our leadership team and flows outward into every aspect of the organization. Design is an integral part of everyday life at Kissmetrics.


As a product team, we believe in a collaborative working style with a bias towards rapid prototyping, experimentation and a strong curiosity for our customers and their needs.

What you get to do every day as a Lead Product Designer:
  • Act as a conduit between the Product, Engineering and Creative teams to solve complex interaction problems, humanize product ideas and develop these ideas into elegant application design
  • Work with Product Managers and Engineers to grow strategic concepts through design exploration, ideation and user validation
  • Design interaction models, wireframes and mid-fidelity mockups that promote ease of use and optimize how customers interact with our products
  • Analyze tasks, model information, navigation and flows using UX best practices for web and mobile
  • Present design solutions to stakeholders and company executives, defend design decisions and incorporate feedback into the design cycle
  • Strike a balance between the practicalities of design and rethinking paradigms that define a new web
  • Ideate with all levels of Kissmetrics to create products that make happier support professionals

Qualifications

What you bring to the role:

  • BFA or similar and a minimum of 3+ years of professional experience designing consumer or SaaS applications
  • Previous experience as a Product Designer, UI / UX Designer etc
  • Proven expertise turning complex business problems into simple and engaging products for the web, iPhone, iPad and Android
  • Strong command of interaction design, visual design and information architecture with a mind for simplicity of design
  • Capable of communicating and prototyping interactions rapidly at all levels of resolution
  • Deep knowledge of modern web UI patterns
  • Insightful design thinking, prolific exploration and a propensity for experimentation

Additional Information

Kissmetrics offers a competitive salary and benefits package.