Product & UX Designer

Creature Studio, an innovative brand, customer experience, and digital product agency, is looking for a Product Designer to join our studio team and serve as a key contributor to the design practice.

The Product Designer will play a role in the design direction, processes, and workflows of brand and product design efforts ranging from early-stage startups to enterprise clients. Additionally, this role will work in a fluid environment with strategists, product managers, engineers, content creators, and design leadership to help assess, ideate, validate, and create new business opportunities using design methodologies. The Product Designer should have a finger on the pulse of trends and design innovation, understanding how to create best-in-class software products across industries that connect with influential audiences.

This role is perfect for a talented software product designer who is looking for a range of opportunities and understands the role design can play in building successful businesses.

What you'll do...

Build Products, Build Brands

• Support the creation of thoughtful digital products taken from research to prototype

• Work as part of our design team to identify design problems, devise elegant solutions, inform strategic design, and user experience decisions

• Validate ideas and products through user research or usability testing

• Take smart risks, incorporate feedback, and continually elevate the quality of your work

Support our Incubations through Studio Design Services

• Collaborate with teammates and clients to test and validate business ideas and opportunities

• Develop brand and product experiences to test and iterate marketing and product ideas with key audiences

• Support our client work and internal incubations through on-going design support in marketing, product and sales initiatives

• Help formalize the processes, tools, and workflows of the design practice with a focus on a system-based approach that can be used across the studio and its portfolio companies

• Support the development of design documentation (e.g., style guides, templates, component & pattern libraries) to ensure the successful delivery of brand & digital experiences

• Help drive the POV and design philosophy of the studio by understanding the role of design in the world and the businesses we create

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You have experience...

• In a web and/or digital product environment (2+ years preferred)

• Working directly with product managers and engineering teams to turn beautiful wireframes and mockups into delightful and sticky software products for end users

• Supporting primary/secondary research to identify user needs and opportunities

• Translating research-based insights into creative opportunities

• Bringing clarity and structure to complex systems or user experience challenges

• Creating modern design workflows and a working knowledge of front-end technologies

• Prototyping ideas quickly and iterating using tools such as Figma, Framer, Principle, etc.

• Helping to define and conduct usability testing plans

• Creating presentations and pitches for businesses that tell compelling stories

• Supporting design and development workflows for platforms like Wordpress or Webflow

You are...

• A versatile designer that can zoom out to think about overall brand experience and UX or zoom in to create simple UI components or brand assets

• A hands-on contributor who enjoys building things; no job is too small or too large

• Passionate about learning about the world, human behavior, and the motivations that lie beneath the surface

• Curious about the future of design and the role that AI and other technologies will play

• Prolific creator that has a passion for typography, illustration and all aspects of creativity

• An innate problem solver with an ability to tame the complex

• Self-motivated and can work with ambiguity; little or no direction required

• Comfortable balancing multiple projects and being flexible across a variety of industries

• Collaborative, transparent, and intellectually curious with a healthy balance of confidence and humility

• A strong verbal and visual communicator

Additional Requirements

• Based in the United States and authorized to work for a US-Based company

• A portfolio of past work or the ability to share and discuss work samples

• The ability to work remotely with a dispersed team

Creature and 25madison are an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.