Product Designer

**About Higlobe**

We are an international payment platform that moves money instantly and with zero transaction fees. Our product is specifically designed for international professionals; overseas freelancers, contractors, and independent workers with US business clients. We understand that having an easy payment method can bring more jobs and opportunities for international workers with a global mindset.

We are a fully remote team with members working across various countries, all coming together to create an amazing product to support international companies and professionals.

**About the Product Designer Role**

The Product Designer is responsible for the overall feel and functionality of the product. They utilize product analysis and consumer research to create user-friendly designs. Drawing on their knowledge of industry trends in design and technology, they adapt and focus product strategies to facilitate positive and intuitive user experiences.

**What You’ll Do**:

- Manage our product design system and components library in Figma
- Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and design mock-ups with minor guidance
- Create usability studies on a variety of projects and product features
- Interact with our engineering team, design handoffs and constantly collaborate during build.
- Interact with customers to review and validate workflows and designs
- Collaborate with Product Management stakeholders on creating user stories to define development tasks
- Analyze user interface problems and requirements to create on-brand design solutions that meet business goals and conform to established standards/guidelines
- Coordinate with stakeholders to effectively negotiate trade-offs with product management and engineering

**Requirements**:

- Minimum 4+ years of formal UX design training and portfolio.
- Has a strong understanding of the product vision, key objectives, and company goals.
- Consistently considers how their designs can support that vision, the team's goals, the broader product vision, and company objectives.
- Ability to take cues from their design manager, and product and engineering leads.
- Strong collaboration skills and design handoff with the engineering team.
- Demonstrate time/priority management, planning own work, and executing against assigned deadlines while maximizing efficiency in the agile process.
- Convey inherent curiosity, empathy for end users, and a passion for the user experience that delights stakeholders
- Advanced knowledge of design principles: layout, typography, visual hierarchy etc.
- Advanced knowledge of responsive design and supporting technologies.
- Ability to work independently to deliver design work on programs of any size with mínimal oversight.
- Proficiency with current software packages used in the field of UX such as, but not limited to: Figma (expert level), Atlassian (Confluence and Jira), Miro, Adobe Creative Cloud, etc.
- Ability to defend your work. Communicate comfortably and effectively with external users and internal teams.
- Competency in concept creation, diagrams, user flows, benchmarking research, wireframing, producing sitemaps, and creating high-fidelity prototypes.
- Strong organizational skills. You will be the keeper of our Figma library and design system including existing styles, components, and documentation.
- Has experience contributing to an atomic design system.

**If you think you’d be a good fit for this role, even if you may not meet all of the** **requirements, we’d love for you to apply At Higlobe, we strive to create an inclusive** **culture that encourages people from different backgrounds to bring their unique, diverse** **perspectives to work. We aim every day to build an environment that empowers us all to** do our best work.**

**Perks**
- Global, fully remote company
- Unlimited Time Off
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not_ _discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age,_ marital status, veteran status, or disability status._
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