ADLOID - Lead - Product Design

Lead Product Design

- We at Adloid are committed to building retail solutions infused with technology that is akin to the real experiences of owning the product. To ensure our tech experiences are seamless, we work on evolving product designs that suit our client's aesthetic, values and branding!

- You will be responsible for driving the practices of research and design forwards, ensuring the function has the right blend of people, skills, tools and processes necessary to support AP's current and future needs. A big part of that involves developing a wider community of practice to raise appetite and understanding of the value of Design across the organisation.

Job Description :

The Lead Product Design plays the pivotal role of providing leadership in defying & designing the desired user experience for all the digital assets across platforms by leading with expertise in the areas of user experience, UX design, User Research & UI design and development.

As a Product Designer you will:

- Drive and support a regular cadence of customer contact that brings the team closer to its customers; building a shared understanding of users, their motivations, goals and needs.

- Utilise more strategic (generative) research methods to explore, define and scope the specifics around the problem(s) to be solved, in the pursuit of a given strategic initiative.

- Work closely with peers in Product Management, Technical Leadership and the wider engineering team to ensure there is a strong design perspective factoring into product decisions.

- Be comfortable working across broader timelines/horizons to explore and validate new ideas/concepts; eventually breaking these down into smaller, releasable slices of customer value.

- Explore potential solutions (to a given problem) in collaboration with the wider product team; seeking fast and frequent user feedback through the creation of low-fidelity prototypes.

- Use a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods to better understand user behaviour, make informed product decisions and regularly measure the impact of work.

- Supports the more immediate design needs of the product teams; crafting workflows, interfaces and interactions to address the new and evolving needs of our users.

- Refine and improve the usability, usage and engagement of existing solutions through frequent rounds of user testing, measurement, data analysis and product iteration.

- Actively contribute to the continuous improvement of the design practice; as well as the growth and development needs of peers across the design function (including mentoring as appropriate)

- Successful candidates for this role will have:

- BS or MS in Interaction Design, Cognitive Science, HCI, Anthropology, Psychology, or equivalent degree or experience

- Minimum 5+ years of experience planning, conducting and communicating the findings from user research for digital products and services

- Experience planning and conducting both quantitative and qualitative user research at all stages of product development

- Ability to frame key questions, create research plans to address those, conduct research, and synthesize the findings into meaningful, actionable insights

- Ability to design and conduct user testing and concept validation i.e. identify potential solution options for a stated user need and design experiments that help elicit the most viable solution for users

- Strong ability to generate and communicate compelling & actionable insights, both verbally and visually

- Strong interaction and visual design skills, including use of a diverse set of tools, e.g. Adobe creative suite, OmniGraffle, Sketch, InVision etc.

- Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate and optimize design based on the value to the user and the business

- Experience in designing consumer-facing Mobile apps, both for Android and iOS,

- Knowledge of best practices for information architecture and interaction design, user-centered design process, as well as user experience principles and techniques