Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer

Location: New York City (Hybrid / Near NYC Office)

About Us

We drive intelligent growth for ambitious businesses and leading brands.

Customer understanding is more potent and drives greater value when insights go to work directly within marketing and experience priorities. To give our clients that advantage, we put an insights-driven operating system at the core of our design, go-to-market and digital experience solutions.

Material clients make smarter growth choices because they can see clearly how and when to take the shots that count. Together, we connect consumer intelligence with customer demand generation to build lasting, profitable relationships.

Our design service line works in the tangible creation of high-fidelity customer experiences with impact on customer acquisition, retention, and lifetime value through the integration of design methods and applications.

About the Senior Product Designer Role

As a Senior Product Designer, you will play a pivotal lead role in our design process and help shape our expanding digital design studio. You’ll be right in the mix as we develop the strategies, concepts, and working designs of experiential platforms, apps, and websites. In this role, you will lead multiple workstreams to deliver integrated, high-quality results aligned to client objectives.

Our designers are responsible for leading discovery workshops and design sprints, collaborating with design researchers on iterative research, presenting concepts to clients, and working with our in-house and client development teams. We strive to create reformative products and experiences that transform businesses. We do this by embracing the diversity of the human condition to create a more equitable and sustainable future. If you can conceive, craft, and validate unique experiences and have a passion for positive change, we'd love to meet you.

As a Senior Product Designer, you will:

• Advance AI-Integrated Design: Embrace the influence of AI on modern design workflows. You will help drive the imagination and curation of what is possible, implementing new interaction models, automation, and personalization capabilities across client products.

• Lead with a Strong POV: Maintain a strong point of view on what you are designing—its purpose, the users, why it matters—and convincingly communicate that narrative to clients and internal teams.

• Protect Design Intent: Act as the product design lead throughout development, working closely with developers in dual-track agile sprints to make critical decisions without compromising design intent.

• Document and Scale: Build and maintain pattern libraries, visual design systems, and brand guidelines as companion pieces to the code.

• Champion Client Goals: Keep client, customer, and product goals at the forefront of your work, deepening trust by anticipating concerns and proactively addressing project risks.

• Foster Collaboration: Work across boundaries to connect teams and stakeholders (across research, brand, strategy, and engineering), ensuring a coherent output rather than a stack of deliverables.

• Build, scale and/or maintain Design Language Systems: The majority of our PD work requires deep experience in DLS work. You will need comfort building a DLS from scratch and evolving existing one, partnering with dev teams to build components.

• Passion and Experience building for Accessibility and Various levels of compliance. Most of our work requires AA compliance but we look for candidates that understand AAA and are comfortable supporting a UXR to test for compliance and equally comfortable building compliance into a DLS.

About You

• Experience: Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of professional experience in product design, experience design, or a related field.

• Portfolio: A strong product design portfolio showing problem-solving acumen with previous work samples (workshops, workflows, sprint plans, user testing, wireframes, comps, prototypes). Your portfolio must exhibit an excellent use of color, typography, and applied design principles.

• Execution & Independence: Capable of working independently with little supervision, maintaining high standards for execution while balancing competing demands across multiple priorities.

• AI & Tech Curiosity: Deeply curious about AI, human behavior, and emerging technologies. You possess a functioning baseline or hands-on experience integrating AI features into digital products and experiences.

• Leadership & Mentorship: Willing to coach, direct, oversee, or review the work of more junior employees, guiding them on what "good" looks like.

• Design Sprints: Proven and repeated success record of planning, facilitating, and leading design sprints and co-creation workshops.

• Technical Guidelines: Deep understand of OS-specific guidelines (Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and Android's Material Design) and a functioning, applied knowledge of accessibility principles.

• Industry & Toolkit Mastery: Comfortable with standard tools like Figma and Miro, alongside an experience with ecommerce, purchase paths, transactional product design, and iterative prototype testing.

• Commercial Awareness: Minded toward business outcomes; you recognize how day-to-day design and resource choices affect project cost, margins, and financial performance.

Why Work for Material?

• Material is a global company and we work with best-of-class brands worldwide.  We also create and launch new brands and products, putting innovation and value creation at the center of our practice. Our clients are in the top of their class, across industry sectors from technology to retail, transportation, finance and healthcare. 

• Material employees join a peer group of exceptionally talented colleagues across the company, the country, and even the world. We develop capabilities, craft and leading-edge market offerings across seven global practices including strategy and insights, design, data & analytics, technology and tracking. Our engagement management team makes it all hum for clients.  

• A community focused on learning and making an impact. Material is an outcomes focused company. We create experiences that matter, create new value and make a difference in our clients’ lives and their customers’ lives.

Pay Range: $100,000.00-115,000.00

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Material. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself. 

Equal Employment Opportunity             

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.

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