China 
Overview
technology company with a public safety mission.
Qualified candidates
will have at least 5+ years’ of experience in Product Design/UX Design, 5+
years’ creating components with a design system, PDQA with development, advanced
Figma expertise at a product-focused technology company.
The successful
candidate will report to the Product Design Manager and be responsible as an
individual contributor for the overall products and services. Problem solving is your superpower. You can discover the root problem before
anyone else and know the end-user better than they do. You understand what customers say may not
match what they do when interacting with a product. You can take human-centered design principles
and translate them into development language. You provide coaching opportunities so that product and development teams
can change their behavior to make better, more informed decisions about goals
and requirements.
UX Initiatives
You Will Impact
our client's design system from Figma into Storybook components. The Product Designer will be responsible for building the Figma components, while the Developers build the storybook components. Each scrum
team will use the component library to enable scalable, modular components,
have a unified language, design consistency, and foster inclusivity. By
providing a "blueprint" (e.g. time, tools, resources, accessibility,
education, documentation) and anticipating their needs, you ensure the
component library can be used effectively by developers.
Job Responsibilities
- Create and produce Figma UI components that
consist of interactions, design tokens, variants, and UX patterns throughout
all stages of the design pro - A strong attention to detail and a keen eye
for design aesthetics - Be the UX sandwich. Provide close
collaboration with UX developers, product designers, and product management on
all UX initiatives - Create and maintain our client’s design
system, including roadmap and backlog for product design - Coach others to practice human-centered design
- Identify gaps in UX strategy and innovation to
drive change and meet unmet needs of customers - Provide UX annotations or design specs for
development and product - Conduct Product Design Quality Assurance (PDQA)/UX
review for development - You will make decisions
in a process light environment, with a lean towards rolling up your
sleeves and getting a deep understanding of issues and be seen as someone
who is there to partner and lead from the front
Qualifications
- 5+
years of experience in product design/UX design - 5+
years of design system experience - Proficiency
with Figma required (advanced expertise) - Experience
in working in an agile framework required. Must know how to manage design
system work in Jira - Must
have work experience at a product-focused technology company - Hands-on
experience and understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, SCSS,
JavaScript) - Portfolio
of design system work is required
Work
Environment
- Remote; work from home role
- Monday-Friday work week and must work Eastern
US office hours - Applicants must be currently authorized to
work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis - Pay range is: $80.00-$90.00 per hour
Emerge seeks, in all its operations, to employ individuals for
available positions based on their qualifications, working knowledge, and
competency. Emerge has a continuing commitment to ensure that fair and equal
employment opportunities are extended to all qualified persons without regard
to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin,
ethnicity, alienage, citizenship or immigration status, age, mental or physical
disability, medical condition, pregnancy, military/veteran status, predisposing
genetic characteristics, familial status, marital status, domestic violence
victim status, or based on their relationship or association with members of a
protected class or any other protected classification, in accordance with
applicable federal, state and local laws.. Emerge is committed to diversity in
its most inclusive sense.
By
completing an application with us, you seek to join a team of hardworking
professionals dedicated to consistently deliver outstanding service to our
customers and contribute to the financial success of the organization, its clients,
and its employees. Equal access to programs, services and employment is
available to all qualified persons. Those applicants requiring accommodation to
complete the application and/or interview process should contact our Emerge
Recruitment Office.
