Senior Product Designer

As a Senior Product Designer at Givebutter, your responsibilities include collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to plan and execute our product roadmap. You'll design wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups that effectively communicate complex concepts. You will also manage and improve our product design system for consistency and efficiency, advocate for user needs through research-driven design decisions, and ensure that your designs are met with high-quality implementation by actively engaging with stakeholders.

To apply for the Senior Product Designer role at Givebutter, candidates should have at least 6+ years of product design experience. A strong portfolio showcasing your end-to-end ownership of complex design problems and launched features is essential. Additionally, expertise in Figma and a solid understanding of UI/UX principles, accessibility, and responsive design is required to thrive in this role.

In the Senior Product Designer role at Givebutter, you will be pivotal in driving the strategic vision for our design system. This involves ensuring that our design language and systems scale effectively with our growing product. You'll conduct design reviews, advocate for user-centric design, and engage with customer experience and engineering stakeholders to ensure consistency and excellence throughout the design and implementation process.

A Senior Product Designer at Givebutter has the opportunity to make a significant impact on our mission to empower changemakers and make charitable giving fun and accessible. By translating user needs into elegant design solutions, you’ll directly contribute to improving how nonprofits raise funds and engage with their communities. Your designs will help facilitate seamless user experiences, ultimately enhancing the platform's effectiveness and reaching our goal of making the world a better place.

The company culture for a Senior Product Designer at Givebutter is rooted in collaboration, creativity, and joy. As a certified Great Place to Work, we prioritize mental well-being, professional development, and work-life balance. You’ll be surrounded by passionate individuals who share a commitment to our mission and make work productivity both enjoyable and impactful. This culture fosters an environment where innovation thrives and each team member is encouraged to contribute ideas and participate in making the company a better place to work.

When discussing your design process, highlight how you begin with research to understand user needs, followed by ideation and sketching. Explain how you develop wireframes and prototypes, iterating based on feedback while collaborating with cross-functional teams, ultimately focusing on user-centered design solutions.

To measure the success of your design projects, you might discuss using metrics such as user engagement, conversion rates, or user satisfaction surveys. Emphasize the importance of aligning these metrics with business objectives to demonstrate tangible impacts resulting from your design initiatives at Givebutter.

Discuss your proficiency with tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD, and explain how they facilitate collaboration with team members and streamline your design process. Highlight specific features that enhance your workflow, such as prototyping capabilities and design systems integration.

Talk about your techniques for staying updated on industry trends, such as following design blogs, attending conferences, participating in webinars, and engaging in online design communities. Your continuous learning approach shows your commitment to personal and professional growth.

Provide a detailed example of a project where you faced significant design challenges and how you approached solving them. Describe the context, the steps you took to identify the problem, your innovative solutions, and the positive impact the final design had on the product.

Discuss your approach to prioritization, such as using frameworks like the Eisenhower Matrix or collaborating with stakeholders to align on project importance and urgency. Explain how considering user impact and business goals helps you make balanced decisions.

Talk about your mindset regarding feedback and how you view constructive criticism as an opportunity for improvement. Sharing your experiences on how you’ve incorporated feedback into your designs demonstrates resilience and a growth mindset.

Highlight your strategies for advocating user-centered design, like conducting user research, presenting user insights to stakeholders, and collaborating with product management to ensure user needs are prioritized. Emphasize the importance of basing design decisions on user feedback.

Discuss your knowledge of accessibility standards, such as WCAG, and share how you implement them in your design process. Use past experiences to illustrate how you've made designs more inclusive and user-friendly for all potential users.

Talk about how you maintain open communication with engineering teams during implementation. Discuss involving engineers early in the design phase, conducting design reviews, and using collaboration tools to address any questions or issues that arise during development.