Principle Product Designer

As a Principal Product Designer at Lyra, you will contribute to product strategy and direction, lead end-to-end design projects, and collaborate closely with engineers and other stakeholders. Your responsibilities will include developing features and improvements, creating user flows and prototypes, and ensuring high-quality visual implementations. Additionally, you'll help foster a design culture and establish processes that emphasize our design-centric values.

To qualify for the Principal Product Designer position at Lyra, candidates should have a robust passion for design and experience creating excellent product designs in fast-paced environments. Applicants should have expertise in complex interaction design, the ability to effectively express ideas through visuals (ideally using Figma), experience with design systems, and outstanding visual and UI skills.

At Lyra, the Principal Product Designer will primarily utilize Figma to create prototypes, user flows, and high-fidelity visuals. Familiarity with Figma, along with a good understanding of design systems, will greatly benefit candidates in successfully executing their responsibilities and ensuring cohesive product design.

Lyra embraces a fully remote work environment, allowing the Principal Product Designer to collaborate seamlessly with distributed teams across the US and EMEA. This setup not only promotes flexibility but also enables a work-life balance, enhanced by support from the company, such as paid co-working spaces and team events.

Lyra offers a competitive salary and equity options, including a generous 10-year exercise window for stock options. Employees can enjoy flexible paid time off, health, dental, and vision insurance, paid co-working space, and regular team events and off-sites, fostering a collaborative and enjoyable work culture.

When asked about a design project, start by outlining the project's scope, the process you followed, and the collaborative efforts involved. Highlight your role, decisions made, and the final outcome, emphasizing how it benefited the users and the organization.

Discuss your methods for gathering user feedback and insights, such as conducting user interviews, surveys, and usability testing. Explain how this information shapes your design decisions and how you iterate on designs based on user input.

Explain your approach to cross-functional collaboration, emphasizing regular check-ins, design critiques, and feedback loops. Discuss how you maintain open communication to ensure alignment on project goals and timelines.

Share your experience in developing or using design systems, stressing their importance in promoting consistency and efficiency across products. Provide examples of how design systems have improved design quality and collaboration.

Describe your commitment to continuous learning, including attending design conferences, following influential designers on social media, or participating in design challenges. Mention specific resources, blogs, or platforms that inform your work.

Discuss your approach to receiving feedback, emphasizing openness and a willingness to consider different perspectives. Explain how you evaluate feedback while staying aligned with user needs and overall design goals.

Outline your design thinking process, starting from empathizing with users to defining problems, ideating solutions, prototyping, and testing. Provide an example of how this process has led to successful design outcomes in your past projects.

Discuss your strategies for managing time effectively, such as setting clear priorities, breaking tasks into manageable chunks, and using project management tools. Highlight your ability to adapt to shifting deadlines without compromising quality.

Share a specific challenge, detailing the situation, your actions, and the eventual solution. Emphasize what you learned from the experience and how it has informed your design practice moving forward.

Clearly express your enthusiasm for Lyra’s mission and values. Link your skills and experiences to the company's focus on quality and innovation, demonstrating how you can contribute to their ongoing success and team culture.