As a valued member of Gritmind, you'll tackle the most formidable hurdles in designing solutions and delivering software for our clients. Alongside our teams of Product Managers and Engineers, you'll collectively deliver top-tier digital products for global industry leaders.
With courage and grit, you are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and blaze new trails into the heart of client challenges. You excel at crafting powerful, elegant, and user-friendly digital solutions, leveraging best practices to solve complex problems.
You have a knack for getting sh*t done – alongside your own efforts, you bring together team members, technology and scalable, repeatable ways of working to make it happen
Responsibilities
- Manage client relationships within the context of the product design process, including:
- Lead workshops
- Facilitate design reviews
- Conduct user research
- Define and document user personas
- Create sitemaps, user-flows, wireframes, interface designs, style guides, and more
- Participate in day-to-day operations of key client engagements, including:
- Contribute to and maintain product backlogs
- Participate in agile ceremonies with globally dispersed teams
- Foster communication between client stakeholders and development teams
- Conduct product demos and presentations
- Facilitate product usability testing sessions
- Drive new business initiatives and foster client success through:
- Run requirements gathering workshops
- Collaborate with team members to produce estimates for client proposals
- Advising current clients on product direction based on quantifiable research
- Identify opportunities for new workstreams and solutions within existing engagements
- Contribute to our growing Product Design practice through:
- Sharing knowledge and best practices
- Demonstrating consistent leadership in design
- Leading the responsible integration of AI technologies in product strategy, discovery, design and delivery to drive user and business value
Requirements
- BS or BA degree
- Prior UX and/or UI design experience working with digital products in an agency, large consultancy, or product company
- Proficient with Figma
- Ability to quickly grasp technical and business concepts and turn potentially nebulous client visions into detailed and robust product solutions.
- Demonstrable understanding of Agile methodologies
- Succinct and effective communication skills, does not use 10 words when three will do
- Ability to lead through influence
- Availability to travel to client sites and other company offices as necessary
Benefits
- Be an instrumental member of a quickly scaling international company with a variety of challenging and compelling projects
- Competitive salary
- Performance-based bonuses
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Four weeks paid vacation plus standard United States holidays
- Funding for professional development such as conferences and educational courses
- Team building events
- Gym membership
This position is based in Chicago, IL. We have a hybrid working model requiring an average of 3.5 days per week in the office. Candidates must reside within the Chicagoland area; we are not considering remote or relocation candidates at this time.
Gritmind is committed to providing equal employment opportunities available to all and seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most qualified people without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
We do not sponsor employment visas and are unable to take over an employment visa from another employer. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. for ANY employer without the need for employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.
In applying for the position, applicants are required to provide truthful and complete information. An applicant’s falsification or omission of information from the application or interview process, if applicable, may result in disqualification from further consideration for employment or, if hired, may result in termination of employment regardless of the time elapsed before discovery.