Senior Product Designer - Enterprise Growth

Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We help connect companies large and small with top independent talent from around the world. Simply put, our mission is to create economic opportunities so people have better lives.

Every year, more than $2 billion of work is done through Upwork by skilled independent professionals who want the freedom of working anytime, anywhere.

As a Senior Designer on our team, you’ll partner with a cross-functional squad to drive product-led growth for one of our company’s top strategic pillars—Enterprise. You will own the work from framing & design thinking, through user research into interaction design and implementation. Become part of our strong and empowering design culture and build engaging products and features that help millions of users collaborate with distributed teams!

Your Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with user researchers, product managers, developers, analysts, content designers and others to craft customer-centric solutions that bring value to our business.

• Demonstrate high quality design practices. This includes leading all aspects of product design: research & discovery, facilitation, strategy, concepting, interaction design, visual execution, and QA.

• Ensure decisions are made with appropriate data and user insights. Follow existing design systems & principles while making well-informed decisions to create new patterns when needed

• Lead projects through an end-to-end design process: research, concepting, strategy, information architecture, interaction design, launch and testing

• Build a variety of design artifacts to communicate your concepts to a broad range of partners and end users

• Work closely with developers to deliver a final product you’re proud of

What it takes to catch our eye:

• Portfolio case studies that demonstrate your proven experience a Product Designer driving outcomes in a cross-functional team, successfully leading projects from ideation through launch and iteration at senior level.

• Experience with designing for B2B acquisition and working with thought leadership content for Enterprise audiences, like corporate buyers, procurement, and C-suite decision makers.

• Must be self-motivated and an excellent communicator

• You can speak to specific techniques you used to build close relationships in a remote work environment

• Able to thoughtfully balance of product requirements, user needs and growth opportunities to scale product adoption and engagement

• You can demonstrate how you’ve used data to craft better solutions

***Portfolio is required***

Come change how the world works.

At Upwork, you’ll shape talent solutions for how the world works today. We are a remote-first organization working together to create exciting remote work opportunities for a global community of professionals.  While we have physical offices in San Francisco and Chicago, currently we also support hiring of corporate full-time employees in 15 states in the United States. Please speak with a member of our recruitment team to determine whether you are located in a state in which we are hiring corporate full-time employees. 

Our vibrant culture is built on shared values and our mission to create economic opportunities so that people have better lives. We foster amazing teams, put our community first, and have a bias toward action. We encourage everyone to bring their whole selves to work and grow together through development opportunities, mentorship, and employee resource groups. Oh yeah, we’ve also got amazing benefits.

Check out our Life at Upwork page to learn more about the employee experience.   

Upwork is proudly committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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