Principal Product Designer - Remote

What would I do at Litmus?
We are looking for a Principal Product Designer to join our Design team. In this role, you will partner with a Product Manager to own a pillar of our product strategy. You’ll explore, research, and design each of the projects on the roadmap from initial idea to fully realized design—working with a dedicated team of engineers to make your vision a reality. As a senior member of the Design Team, you’ll also have a key role guiding the holistic vision for the UX of our product, helping evolve and improve our design process, and representing the voice of our customers inside and out of the product organization.

You’ll be expected to:

• Know our customers, their needs, and the role Litmus plays in their work life 
• Design new features and iterations on existing features that enrich our customers' experience with Litmus
• Bring an outside-in perspective. Offer insights, ideas, and new ways of thinking that challenge the status quo
• Take each project from concept to finished product, including defining research needs, exploring different solutions, specifying UX and interaction designs and creating the final high-fidelity visual designs and prototypes
• Collaborate closely with Product Manager, Product Marketing, and Engineering teams in an agile environment to deliver innovative design experiences to our customers at each stage of their journey
• Coordinate user testing of our product and your own prototypes 
• Partner with the design team in creating, maintaining, and evolving our Litmus Design System
• Explain and discuss the thinking and process behind your designs; always be able to articulate the “why” 
• Collaborate constantly -- seek and incorporate feedback from your stakeholders, and help make other designers’ work better with your suggestions 

What is Litmus looking for in a candidate?

• Deep product design experience in desktop, mobile, and/or web-based application design—ideally including B2B software 
• A strong portfolio illustrating your work, highlighting your individual strengths and your design process 
• Problem-solving abilities; we need someone who is adept at breaking down complex problems, ideating on several possible solutions, and able to work with stakeholders to determine the best one
• Expertise with Figma, Sketch, or a similar tool for both designing and creating interactive prototypes 
• Experience working from, and maintaining, a design library and product style guide 
• Collaborative approach when working with other designers and scrum team 
• Nice to have:
• Experience with marketing tools and marketers' needs
• Visual design flourish 
• Experience working in a fully remote, distributed environment