Product Designer III
Crema, United States
Job Description
Crema is a digital product agency specializing in design, technology, and innovation culture.
We partner with teams who need to build exceptional digital experiences that move their business forward. Our small, cross-discipline teams combine their sets of diverse skills in custom agile consulting, product management, and design thinking to help individuals and organizations thrive.
We’re passionate about what we do and who we do it with. At Crema, we live by our values and are looking for values-aligned teammates to join us in building something special! We’re not looking for conformists, we want individuals with diverse perspectives that help shape our company for the better.
While we have an office in Kansas City, we are a Work from Anywhere company so this is a remote position available to anyone based in the United States.
About This Role
We’re looking for an experienced and passionate product designer to join our team. This role will partner with our product teams and clients to solve complex design problems and put strategies in place to deliver best-in-class web and mobile solutions. Our product designers are highly strategic, detailed oriented and have a deep understanding of visual design, user experience, interface design, branding and strong fundamentals in leadership, user research and product strategy.
At Crema, we craft our product teams to solve hard problems client problems and business problems in ways that our clients and their customers love, yet work for their business. Our product teams are cross-functional and resilient, generally comprised of a product manager, a product designer, a test engineer, and several developers.
What you'll do:
Your primary focus will be working in a product team to design web and mobile applications for our clients. You are expected to drive the entire design process from ideation to implementation, providing elegant and meaningful experiences. We primarily use Figma, and we expect you have reached expert level in that design tool or a similar one. You’ll work with other product designers, product managers, test engineers, developers, and directly with the client team. You’ll partner with the client, and lead them in the process in a way that your design solutions meets and exceeds their business goals.
Requirements
About You
You should have extensive product design experience, specifically with shipped mobile and web applications. This is reflected in an outstanding design portfolio of real work experiences that showcases established expertise in multiple design disciplines. Your work showcases the highest level of craft and execution, a passion for user-centered design, and a desire to build accessible products for all with high levels of user adoption. You can negotiate and articulate the why behind your design decisions and are always striving to understand real users motivations and business goals. You can design well within a range of constraintsfrom unknown to very restrictive, business to technical, and stable to shifting.
We believe in continuous feedback at Cremayou must be open to giving and receiving feedbackand you’ll receive some training when you join the team. A teachable spirit is important. As a designer is extremely important you can negotiate and articulate the why of your design decisions, and are always excited to receive feedback on iterative design work and implement a path forward accordingly
As a remote-first company, we are looking for someone that thrives in an asynchronous setting and can balance intentional collaboration and communication with the ability to be self-driven and work independently.
Hiring Process
We’re intentional with our hiring process because we want to find the right candidate for the role! Our overall hiring process takes about 4-8 weeks from the time you are contacted for your first interview. You’ll observe a high level of transparency during the interview process to ensure a good match. We’ll do our best to answer all of your questions and provide candid feedback. There is more information on our hiring principles and more on our careers page.
We’re accepting applications for this role until 7.22.22 at 5PM CST.
Our process will look a little like this:
- Submit your applicationwe want to hear from you and how you align with our values.
- Phone Screenif your application is selected, a member of our Ops team will reach out and schedule a 30-minute call to learn more about you and give you a chance to ask us questions.
- Interview with Craft Directorthe next step is an hour-long call with the Craft Director, Pamela Porto. They will take this time to understand your skills and experience. Be prepared to discuss a piece of your portfolio as well.
- Interview with team memberswe’re a very co