Senior Product Designer at Higg Co
Remote, Western Hemisphere, FTE
About the Organization
Higg Co is a technology company that delivers, implements, and supports the Higg Index for consumer goods industries. Developed by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, the Higg Index is a suite of tools that enables brands, retailers, and facilities of all sizes — at every stage in their sustainability journey — to accurately measure and score a company or product’s sustainability performance. The Higg Index delivers a holistic overview that empowers businesses to make meaningful improvements that protect the well-being of factory workers, local communities, and the environment.
About You
You're a visual and interactive designer who enjoys bringing clarity to complex concepts through modern design thinking. We're building out our end-to-end product team, so we'll need your strategic thinking and design skills at each stage of a project, from research to wireframes to visual design. You're a big-picture thinker and clear communicator who's able to work remotely, autonomously, and collaboratively with multiple stakeholders.
What You'll Do All Day
Take product ideas from concept to build ready assets, employing sharp UX thinking, art direction, storytelling, documentation, and systems design
Collaborate with product managers to use design thinking and insights about our users to consistently deliver elegantly-simple solutions to the right problems
Work closely with developers to foster innovation and ensure feasibility and fidelity of final output while understanding where to make tradeoffs to achieve MVP
Embrace challenge and inspire new ways of thinking and approaching design problems
Clearly communicate vision, concepts, and mission of the design team at all levels and help provide context and clarity throughout the organization
Support efforts related to the Design System to better enable you to design and build products that you feel genuinely proud of
Assist with Marketing and Customer Support initiatives as bandwidth permits
We'd Like To See
4+ years of demonstrated product design experience shipping exceptional work
A portfolio that reflects your strengths in both UX and visual design, with your role clearly defined on each project
Strong understanding of current industry tools like Figma and Sketch, with the ability to adapt to new technologies
Experience working on cross-disciplinary teams
Strong desire to stay ahead of desktop and mobile best practices, developments, and trends in design
Strong communication skills with the ability to deliver compelling design rationale
Ability to translate complex information and user flows into elegant design solutions
Curiosity, humility, and passion
Business acumen, you can clearly connect design investments and business impact (clear understanding of the metrics in its context, the effect to customers and profit & loss)