Niche
Niche connects people to their future schools, neighborhoods, and workplaces.
Associate Product Designer
Location
Arizona + 28 moreAll locations: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia
Posted
20 hours ago
Salary
$94K - $115K / year
Bachelor Degree1 yr expEnglish
Job Description
• Evaluate the current state user experience and work cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Engineering to identify UX/UI issues preventing users from getting the most value out of Niche, propose and implement improvements
• Support senior designers on larger projects by creating user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes that address clear user and business needs
• Assist others with lightweight evaluative/usability research to test solutions, analysis results and apply the findings to your designs
• Create clear design specs and collaborate with engineers to support smooth handoff and implementation
• Leverage qualitative and quantitative data to understand what’s working/not working, iterate on shipped experiences, and improve performance
• Participate in design critiques, team rituals, cross-functional meetings
• Support documentation and maintenance of design patterns, in partnership with senior designers and design system contributors
Job Requirements
- At least 1 year of professional experience in a product/UX design role, where you have designed solutions and worked with Engineering to deliver them live to production
- All applicants must submit a portfolio of product experiences that showcase user flows, interface design, prototypes, polish and shipping. Please include examples of how you organized your designs and docs, such as Figma file hierarchies, documenting and prioritizing feedback, handoff processes, etc
- Great taste and keen eye for craft and quality, sweating the details and using your knowledge of industry patterns and trends to deliver visually appealing solutions with great usability
- Familiar with Figma, design systems, and other modern design tools – no prior experience with generative AI is required
- Curious and eager to understand user behavior, mental models, and product constraints
- Able to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints
- Proactively collaborate to overcome challenges, seek assistance to unblock yourself
- Comfortable iterating quickly with feedback from users, PMs, engineers, key stakeholders
- Resilience and flexibility that helps you adapt to a fast-paced work environment, frequent changes, and considerable ambiguity
- Bonus if you have experience with visual design for digital products, design systems and component libraries, and/or analyzing and interpreting data
Benefits
- Best-in-class 100% paid employee health plan, including vision and dental and supplemental coverage
- Flexible Paid Time Off Policy
- Stipend that allows you to build your work from home office in a style and function that suits your personal preferences
- Parental leave for all employees (12 weeks fully paid) in addition to short term disability for birthing parents
- Meaningful 401(k) with employer match
- Your ideas and work will make an immediate impact on our company and millions of users
- You will join a team that cares about you, our mission, our work - and celebrates our wins together!
