[Remote] Associate Product Designer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RealPage, Inc. is focused on delivering exceptional user experiences for property management professionals. The Associate Product Designer will lead design efforts for a Scrum team while contributing to annual UX team initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create innovative solutions and improve UX processes.

Responsibilities

• Understand, envision, and influence our product and its strategy with teams to Create Market Impact, Namely By Learning about your product area, competitors, their solutions, and our gaps
• Becoming familiar with property manager’s jobs-to-be-done
• Understanding our company vision and aligning your work with it
• Understanding the vision for your product area
• Building relationships with peers across UX, Product Management and Engineering areas and across the company
• Learning how the product delivery teams (UX, Product Management and Engineering) work together to build products
• Applying our UX Team Core Values and UX Pillars to your work
• Learning how to communicate, present, and share work in progress in 1:1s and Design Critiques by framing problems, pros & cons, and questions
• Proactively collaborating and soliciting feedback with the intention of learning and improving
• Regularly reporting progress to your UX Manager
• Beginning to develop a UX network both within and outside of Buildium
• Explore problems, design innovative solutions quickly, apply research, create impact in new problem spaces, and push our craft forward, by:
• With coaching from your UX Manager, collaborating with teams to articulate and align on problem statements based on research
• Gaining awareness of design thinking
• Collaborating with teams to prioritize and scope work
• With coaching on collaborative methods, exploring concepts, narrowing to the best solution through research and collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Applying and executing appropriate research methods, as well as assisting in recruiting participants and the related scheduling efforts
• Getting design work shipped
• Gaining familiarity with our design system and learning how to design with its components and patterns
• Delivering UI that follows our fundamentals
• Learning how to set and meet monthly, weekly and daily goals
• Understanding KPIs for each of your projects and ensuring that they measure the problem/solution
• Work with other designers to achieve top-notch results
• Knowing and prioritizing what’s most important while managing your time efficiently
• Contribute to Buildium’s product delivery strategy by leading product design in a scrum team, delivering discovery outcomes and initial designs ahead of the planned implementation date for the team’s roadmap projects
• In parallel to the scrum work, use a portion of your time to contribute to expand and grow our UX Initiatives, focused on UX process and operational improvements, our Design System, or global product innovation

Skills

• Fluency in English with strong written and oral communication skills
• 1+ years of UX design and/or product design experience
• Fluency in Figma and other commonly-used design tools
• Fluency in user-centered design principles and testing methodologies
• Ability to clearly and effectively present and communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and customers
• Familiarity with Agile Scrum methodology; ability to plan and manage design work for 2-3 projects at a time
• Experience creating or working with Design Systems as a producer and/or consumer
• Experience in the small and medium sized business (SMB) market and/or B2B products

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Sales incentives

Company Overview

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