Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.
Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia is a Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM company in India, is listed as one of the world’s top software companies by The Software Report, and is positioned as a market leader by the analyst community. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!
About Role...
Acquia is seeking a Lead Product Designer dedicated to crafting engaging digital experiences through simple, clear, and systematic design. You will journey through various stages of fidelity, from the initial problem statement and concept exploration to delivering design specifications developed into functional, reliable, and delightful user interfaces. You will collaborate and engage closely with product design, product, and engineering teams to deliver exceptional user-focused value.
You will join a talented and diverse team of designers, researchers, content strategists, and service designers dedicated to helping Acquia grow its product portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Ensure design colleagues have the information they need to complete projects.
- Design Feedback: Provide feedback and on-the-job training to design team members.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure that all project deliverables are delivered on time and to quality standards.
- Design Integration: Support design efforts throughout Acquia’s product and service portfolio.
- Proactive Contribution: Take on tasks proactively without needing direction from leadership.
- Team Environment: Demonstrate a commitment to improving the team environment.
- Artifact Creation: Produce a variety of design artifacts (user stories, journeys, wireframes, prototypes, testing summaries, and dev specifications) to guide product teams.
- Collaboration: Facilitate cross-functional working and feedback sessions with Product Managers, Engineers, and other stakeholders.
- User Advocacy: Champion user needs for usability and accessibility within cross-functional teams.
- Design Methods: Promote human-centered design methods and best practices.
- User Research Collaboration: Work with design researchers to fully understand customer needs and advocate for designs that address them.
- Impact Measurement: Collaborate with Product teams to understand user problems, define requirements, and measure user satisfaction and impact.
- Research Identification: Work with the broader team to identify research needs and customer experience improvement opportunities.
- Prototype Testing: Create, collaborate, and run prototype tests to gather user data and mitigate bias.
Required skills
- Experience: 5+ years of experience with Product (UX/UI or other adjacent forms of) design; other relevant experience in adjacent fields considered.
- Design Understanding: Thorough understanding of design thinking, user-centered design, interaction design, and heuristics.
- Software Proficiency: Proficiency in Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or similar tools.
- User Engagement: Experience in prototype testing, user interviews, usability studies, or remote field studies.
- Presentation Skills: Ability to effectively present the value of design solutions to various stakeholders.
- Accessibility Awareness: Familiarity with accessibility standards and considerations.
- Design Systems: Experience with or contribution to a design system.
- Continuous Learning: Willingness to learn and embrace emerging technologies and approaches.
- Attention to Detail: Strong attention to detail and clear communication skills.
Extra Credit
- SaaS Design: Experience designing SaaS products or services.
- Development Practices: Familiarity with agile software development best practices and cloud architecture.
- Enterprise Experience: Experience with enterprise software design/development.
- Atomic Design: Experience with Atomic design.
Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and much more!
Individuals seeking employment at Acquia are considered without regard to race, color, religion, caste, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.
