Product Designer, Disney+
Job Summary:We’re looking for a talented, and team-oriented Associate Product Designer to join our San Francisco-based team. You have highly-developed visual design and ux skills, an entrepreneurial spirit, and will thrive upon the legacy of our company while embracing unconventional thinking.
The DSS design team is a growing practice of multi-disciplinary creators and storytellers. We are passionate about building high-quality, innovative and authentic experiences that connect people with the content they love. We explore ideas by using the power of design to make the invisible visible. We believe in doing things that matter, cultivating a culture of diverse perspectives and collaboration. We celebrate our wins, but never settle.
Responsibilities:
- Define visual user interfaces for mobile, web, and tv-based media applications. Focus on UI, product branding, and content presentation.
- Rapidly produce multiple solutions using sketches, wireframes and prototypes.
- Follow a user experience design process from concept to execution; approach design from a user’s perspective, listening to users and balancing their needs alongside business goals and technical capabilities.
- Collaborate with fellow designers (UX, visual, motion/prototypers) to help evolve the design language of the applications.
- Communicate with design leads to understand requirements and priorities.
- Generate design work plans; accurately estimate work items and communicate dependencies and issues as necessary. As a dedicated practitioner, you take full ownership of your work.
- Communicate design decisions and specifications in a scalable and reproducible form.
- Partner closely with multi-disciplinary teams, including research, engineering, product and business to find elegant and practical solutions
- Partner with UX researchers to validate solutions and practice evidence-based design
Basic Qualifications:
- 5 years experience in UX/graphic design, shipping successful consumer products in a fast-paced technology environment.
- An online portfolio featuring great work for mobile, web applications and brand/identity. Experience on TV is a plus.
- Experience in articulating conceptual and design decisions.
- A love of television, film, and entertainment.
- An innate passion for learning new software design technologies and trends.
- Expert eye for detail high-quality creative.
- Ability to rapidly ideate and produce a wide range of visual concepts and directions.
- Experience with shipping consumer-friendly interactive experiences.
- The communication skills to clearly articulate the rationale behind your concepts—and evangelize on their behalf.
- You welcome candid feedback, and can constructively give it as well.
- Experience solving for an international audience and working with remote teams is a plus.
- Proficiency with prototyping (Principle, Framer, Proto.io) and animation (After Effects) software is a plus
- Solid foundational design skills and sensibilities. Design-related BA/BFA is a plus.