Product Designer

ABOUT THE ROLE

At Accela, employees enjoy a culture that emphasizes performance, productivity and collaboration. You can’t help but feel empowered and motivated when you work with individuals who are passionate about contributing to a market-leading, high-growth software organization with proven technology.

Accela is seeking a mid-level Product Designer to join Accela UX Design, delivering enterprise web applications for governments, agencies, and citizens. To succeed in this role, you will need to draw on your enterprise design experience, as well as organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills. You will create wireframes, visual designs, and interactive prototypes using the Oxygen Design System, while helping to grow the library of components, patterns, and guidelines.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES  

• You are a ‘systems thinker’ who sees beyond the problem at hand and considers the interplay between different parts of the system

Organization

• Ability to interpret high-level strategy, and creative briefs, and apply to the task at hand
• Strong organizational and time-management skills including the ability to plan own work, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines

Collaboration

• Willingness to work closely with user experience researchers to understand users' needs and goals, and with product managers and design to envision, rapidly prototype and iterate on different concepts.
• Develop a partnership with front-end engineers, deliver design an
• Being respectful, open-minded, and maintaining a positive attitude are core to our team. Everyone is responsible for contributing new ideas and being open to others’ input
• Ability to ask probing questions about product requirements, users, desired outcome, and business need to get the information you need to improve the product

Communication

• Skilled in clearly communicating high concept and detailed design, both verbally and visually
• Ability to give and take direct feedback to meet requirements and push the product and your teammates further

Visual design

• Experience in visual design, creating flows, and building click-through prototypes for complex applications
• Practical knowledge of design principles, layout, and visual hierarchy
• High-level Understanding of CSS, HTML, responsive design, and UI frameworks

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 years working as product or visual designer OR in a comparable role creating designs for enterprise web applications
• Online portfolio showcasing your ability to deliver solid visual designs
• Ability to clearly explain designs to developers
• Interest in Accessibility and designing for accessible experiences
• Expert in your design tools of choice – Sketch, InVision, Illustrator, Photoshop, or similar; we are looking to move to Figma, so experience with Figma is a plus, but not required

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience designing for enterprise (business-to-business) products
• Ability to build click-through prototypes at various levels of fidelity for user testing
• Experience working iteratively in a scrum team practicing agile project management
• Experience designing large applications using an UI library of components and patterns

ABOUT ACCELA

For nearly 20 years, Accela has been an industry leader in designing and delivering government software to improve efficiency, increase citizen engagement and enable the development of thriving communities. Today, citizens are savvy to how services should be delivered, and expect a consistently convenient, openly transparent view into their local government. While government agencies struggle to do more with less, our mission has never been more critical. Accela provides a robust, cloud-based platform of government software solutions that accelerate growth, efficiency, and transparency in communities of all sizes. From planning, to building, to service request management and more, Accela’s SaaS offerings level the playing field for small and medium governments and enable smaller agencies to leverage larger city technologies. Our open and flexible technology helps agencies address specific needs today, while ensuring they are well prepared for the emerging challenges of the future.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION

Accela believes in developing and nurturing a workplace community where our differences are celebrated, and everyone feels a sense of psychological safety and belonging. Accela is committed to putting resources and attention towards evolving our practices, policies, and philosophies to enable diversity to thrive and to support equity in opportunity for everyone.

Accela is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer and will respond to requests for job accommodations.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, or based on disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation.

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