Senior Product Designer / PO - Fluent English Mandatory - Freelance

Location: Argenteuil

Remote: 2 jours de présentiel par semaine sur les premiers mois, ensuite beaucoup plus flexible.

Department: Product Design practice/ UX design

Position overview:

As a Senior Product Designer, with the support of our design lead and under the responsibility of the Product Managers, you will contribute actively to the development of 2 different products, working actively with other members of the team, UI designer, Product manager, Developers and all business stakeholders.

Product 1 : Development of a new solution, PLM (Portfolio Lifecycle Management)

Solution goal : PLM allow business teams to manage our product portfolio dynamically and enhance our responsiveness to the clients

Product 2 : Improvements of a live & recently shipped core solution : Smart Lab

Solution goal : Manage our application samples, from request to delivery

Key responsibilities & mission - product 1

Mapping the current situation

- Organize & conduct relevant activities with final users & business stakeholders to identify needs, pain points & ways of working : Interviews, focus groups, workshops, card sorting activities ...

- Represent learnings with tangible and visual deliverables like user journey & personae in order to transform all data collected into actionable insights

Frame the future solution : ideation & convergence

- Organize & conduct design activities to bring stakeholders together and help them align on a single solution : Sketching group activities, design critique, design sprint ...

- Test early stage ideas supported by materials to foster the decision making process.

- Ship important design artefact necessary to frame the future solution and support the PM to build the roadmap: Site map, target user journey, UI of main templates, screenflow &, interaction rules.

Delivery, High fidelity design shipping.

- Participate to Agile rituals

- Leverage the design system available, with the help of our Lead UI to craft user interfaces, ready to dev.

- Participate to functional specification

- Test your designs, when needed, to reduce risk of user rejection.

Key responsibilities & mission - product 2

- Understand users : organize and conduct user research activities aligned with product roadmaps : Interviews, observations, user tests in order to understand user objectives

and pain points and map user tasks.

- Deliver :

Prototype solutions to test with users or reach stakeholders alignment

Participate to agile rituals, Craft high fidelity user interfaces leveraging the design system, accompany development teams to ensure design consistency.

- Measure : Participate to the definition of UX metrics, adoption, retention and satisfaction

Skills Required:

● Prototyping & testing : As a designer, you believe that tangible designs are worth a thousand words. You will prototype to test with users, to align your team or communicate with business stakeholders.

● UI & Interaction design: you are mastering ergonomic rules and know how to create high fidelity mockups that feel satisfying for end users and match the technical and design standard of the company

● Design advocacy: Articulate and defend design decisions with clarity, ensuring that the rationale is understood by both technical and non-technical audiences.

● Facilitation. Facilitation skills to articulate remote discussions between different stakeholders across different world locations.

● Product prioritization: Support product managers and stakeholders in prioritizing the product roadmap through evidence-based user insights.

● Product adoption : Support the product team to collect all user data related to the product usage, foster adoption of new features by implementing in-app guidance and help leveraging our adoption platform too (Appcues)

● Functional specification : Working with the PM you will contribute to the product backlog, writing functional specifications.

● Collaboration: Partner closely with product managers, developers and business stakeholders to ensure alignment from the framing to the execution of design related

● AI culture & mindset: You have integrated AI capabilities in your way of thinking, and workflow, research analysis, accelerating layout exploration, concept generation, visual exploration ...

Requirements & Experience:

● Bachelor’s / Master’s degree or certified training in Design, HCI, or related fields

● 7+ years of professional experience in end-to-end product design

● Fluent in English

● Experience with complex business applications is a must.

● Proven track record of designing and shipping impactful user-centered products

● Fluent in Figma for design and prototyping

● Worked within design systems that you regularly contributed to and helped evolve

● At ease with digital product metrics : Adoption, engagement, retention

● Outstanding verbal and written communication skills are a must, including the ability to

provide solid justifications for design decisions and influencing stakeholders

● Empathy (for users and stakeholders), rigor (you are serious about doing good design),

pragmatism (you know when to tap into perfectionism, and when not to), curiosity and a growth mindset (you know nothing Jon Snow, or something like that)

● Experience convincing stakeholders of the value of user-centered design for thebusiness

● An updated portfolio showcasing your design process, from problem definition to final solutions and impact on the business

● Potential travels worldwide

● A first experience with GenAI will be appreciated