What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Designer position at Actalent?
FULLY REMOTE Contract Job Opportunity based in Redmond, WA.
Pay: $35-$45 Hourly MAX
THIS IS NOT A C2C (CORP TO CORP) OR SPONSORED JOB OPPORTUNITY.
Typical Day in the Role
Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is to manage the design systems and branding for the company shopping experience.
They work on design systems for shopping, collaborate with different shopping designers, and handle visual and branding needs, including guidelines and visual assets.
Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of 80% heads down work, 20% meetings.
What makes this role interesting? - This role provides the opportunity to work within the AI space and contribute to the evolving landscape of shopping AI at our company.
Unique Selling Points: This role offers the opportunity to work within the AI space, contributing to shopping AI at across platforms like Bing, Edge, and potentially Copilot, with the potential for global impact. It emphasizes originality, creative freedom, and close collaboration with designers and engineers.
Candidate Requirements
- Years of Experience Required: 2 overall years of experience in the field.
- Degrees or certifications required: any degree in design, UX, or product design is considered a bonus.
- Disqualifiers: Candidates without any background in product design, design systems, or branding and visual design would be disqualified.
- Best vs. Average: The ideal resume would contain unique design approaches, modern and fresh visual sense, strong organizational skills, and the ability to communicate effectively.
Top 3 Hard Skills Required Years of Experience
1. Minimum 2 years experience with Figma skills digital design.
2. Minimum 2 years experience with User research skills.
3. Minimum 2 years experience with Visual Design.
Summary:
The main function of a Product Designer is to design, develop, and implement applications using general languages and technologies (e.g. - C#, C , HTML) to support business requirements.
Job Responsibilities:
- Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
- Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts
- Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution
- Assure quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported area
- Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment
- Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
- 2-4 years experience required
- Development experience in needed language or technology (e.g. - C#, C , HTML)
- Hands on experience in designing, developing and successful deployment of large scale projects from end-to-end
- Hands on experience in following the iterative and agile SDLC
PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU'RE SEEKING C2C OR SPONSORSHIP.
About Actalent
Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:
- Hiring diverse talent
- Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection
- Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes
- Ensuring growth opportunities for our people
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com for other accommodation options.
Salary : $35 - $45
