OpenGov is home to an exceptional team - passionate about our mission to power more effective and accountable government. By bringing the OpenGov Cloud to our nation's state and local government, we’re transforming communities so they can thrive!
Join our smart, fun, and humble team to experience the most rewarding career of your life!
Job Summary:
The Sr. Product Designer (International) will be responsible for researching and designing tools to understand the organization and user needs. You will utilize your design and research toolkit to understand user needs, communicate and prototype design solutions at varying levels of fidelity, and collaborate closely with Engineers and Product Managers to shape solutions and bring them to market.
Responsibilities:
- Work with lead designers to understand a product, its customers, and the requirements of a specific feature.
- Leverage our product design principles and government personas to craft elegant, but practical solutions
- Design wireframes, mockups, and prototypes and validate them with users
- Work with Product Management and Engineering leaders to define use cases, requirements, customer journeys, and interactions.
- Use data from research and product analytics to understand customer needs, make decisions, and communicate solutions
- Contribute to our unified design system by leveraging reusable patterns across products
- Help our team choose the right methods and tools for creative problem solving
- Present your work to stakeholders across the company to receive feedback and communicate the value of design
Requirements and Preferred Experience:
- 4-6 years of experience working in cross-functional product and engineering teams
- Strong communication skills and an ability to clearly present complex ideas to stakeholders
- Strong understanding of how to apply human factors and user-centered design principles to software
- Recognized experience leading the design process from concept to implementable solution
- Ability to start with complex data and customer workflows and drive toward simple and intuitive solutions
- A master of common design software tools, such as Figma (preferred), Sketch, AdoveXD, etc.
- Completed an undergraduate or graduate degree in a related field
- Experience working across timezones with team members based in the US preferred
- Experience building or contributing to a design system and building out the visual style of a product preferred
- Experience designing for a variety of mediums and surfaces, including mobile devices and printed materials preferred
- Experience with complex system and wicked problems in government, finance, and enterprise domains preferred
What makes OpenGov unique
» Growth: Record breaking growth with 1,800+ governments (and counting) using our products. Click
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» Product: Named to the GovTech 100 (seven consecutive years), we are the leader in cloud software for our nation's cities, counties, and state agencies.
» Mission Driven: We are a technology company with a passion for the mission. We're powering more effective and accountable government.
Come join us and make a positive social impact!
OpenGov is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
