BuddyBoss (BuddyBoss.com) is a leading provider of WordPress-driven solutions, for online community platforms, E-learning, and membership sites.
We are looking for a product designer (UX/UI designer) to join our product team, with a strong understanding of user-centered design and the mindset required to create high-quality software products. Applicants should be disciplined in problem-solving and able to design products that will solve problems for end-users.
As our product designer, you’ll be our go-to person for designing features that achieve both the business and user requirements.
Responsibilities
● Gather, analyze, document, and validate the needs of the business stakeholders
● Analyze customer feedback and activity, in order to iterate products to enhance the user experience
● Develop an understanding of our users through the use of user research and focus groups
● Demonstrate your ideas to stakeholders using wireframes and conceptual designs
● Build and maintain our design systems; ensuring our standards, guidelines and best practices are adhered to
● Prepare designs for developers using detailed UX flows, prototypes and clearly-written acceptance criteria
● Validate designs through the use of usability testing and user interviews
● Assist the product team throughout development to ensure deliverables meet the approved scope and design
Required Skills and Experience
● 3+ years experience as a product designer, UX Designer, UI Designer or similar role
● Strong portfolio of design projects
● Background in product design and research
● Familiarity with interaction design and information architecture
● Proficiency with design software (e.g. Sketch, Figma, etc )
● Experience working with a business-to-business (B2B) product
● Knowledge of WordPress software development
● Excellent oral and written communication skills
● Strong ability to solve problems and design solutions
● Outstanding organizational and time management skills
● Post Secondary Education, preferably in a technical field
Nice-to-Have Skills and Experience
● Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies (such as the definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
● Experience using product management tools such as Product Board, Product Plan, etc
● Experience working with apps built with React Native
● Proficiency with the WordPress Coding Standards, approaches, and common APIs
● Understanding of issue tracking tools such as Jira
● Experience working with remote teams is a big plus. Our team is mostly distributed with team members in over 10 countries.
● Experience with BuddyBoss or BuddyPress
