The Product Design Lead is responsible for Origami's web and mobile user interfaces. The Product Design Lead will be responsible not only for designing solutions that build on the existing application(s), but also growing and leading a team of designers. This includes implementing a design process consisting of all phases such as discovery, ideation, mockups, handoff, and post-delivery measurement. The Product Design Lead will ensure adoption of the Design System, Style Guide, and general best practices resulting in an optimized user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) within the Origami web and mobile applications.
Origami Risk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We thrive and benefit from diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all employees. We do not discriminate against any individual based upon race, religion, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, color, sex, national origin, age, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Responsibilities
• Establishes strong working relationships with all stakeholders including market strategists, technical product managers, design team, engineers, service team members, and others as defined.
• Builds a process for all steps of the design process from discover/research to post-delivery collaboration and auditing.
• Ensures adherence by all designers to the established design process and buy-in by all department leads.
• Leads design reviews with other product team members to ensure consistency across our designs in addition to well-designed solutions.
• Helps shape and improve our internal product development process, from story creation and outcome identification through delivery.
• Creates modular UI patterns - from structural layouts to micro-interactions - for global use across the Origami platform.
• Works with product managers to design mockups, wireframes, user flows, and/or functional prototypes.
• In conjunction with design team members, designs highly configurable web and mobile applications, understanding native mobile and browser constraints and best practices.
• Cultivates a team culture that is excited to design thoughtful solutions and understands the value of this work.
• Mentors, trains, and champions team members; fills resource gaps where appropriate by first exploiting bottlenecks and then adding resources as needed.
• Performs team member review, evaluation, and compensation processes.
• Identifies, provides, and coordinates additional training and development opportunities for team members.
• Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's/Master's degree - Library/Information Science, Information Architecture or Human-Computer Interaction
• 3+ years' experience leading a team in product design, ideally B2B cloud platform-related, web and mobile
• 5+ years' experience with standards-based, cross-browser, multi-device product design
• Demonstrable expertise at implementing design systems, from concept to delivery
• Experience with XHTML, HTML5, and CSS3
• Relevant portfolio of successful examples of design work, storyboards, wireframes, or other deliverables
Who We Are
Origami Risk is a leading provider of integrated SaaS solutions for risk management, insurance, safety, and compliance. We've designed our single-platform, cloud-based software to be easily configurable to meet the needs of insured corporate and public entities, brokers and risk consultants, insurers and MGAs, third party claims administrators (TPAs), risk pools, and more. To fulfill our singular focus of helping our clients achieve their business objectives, our software is supported by a best-in-class service team of experienced risk, insurance, and safety professionals who have an ideal balance of industry knowledge and technological expertise.
Since its founding in 2009, Origami Risk has received more than two dozen awards for service excellence, technology innovation, and workplace culture. In addition to inclusion in Deloitte's Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing tech companies in North America, Origami Risk also has been repeatedly recognized by Inc. magazine as one of the "Best Places to Work" and Best and Brightest® Companies To Work For in the Nation by the National Association for Business Resources (NABR).