What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Product Designer position at Twitter?
Company Description
Twitter serves the public conversation by encouraging people all over the world to connect, learn, debate, and solve problems together. We believe conversation is a force for good and can change the world, and it is what keeps us here.
Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Drive design strategy within your area of focus;
- Design, prototype, and develop elegant solutions for our mobile and web apps;
- Identify user needs, sketch solutions, build prototypes, test ideas with our research team, and refine designs with data and customer feedback;
- Document detailed interaction models and UI specifications;
- Collaborate with other designers to maintain design consistency and coherence across the features on Twitter app and website;
- Work with cross-functional partners in Research, Engineering and Product to bring consistency, simplicity, and ease-of-use to the Twitter experience;
- Evangelize best design practices to other designers, engineers, and product managers.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 7 years of product design experience building products in a complex, cross-functional organization;
- An online portfolio that demonstrates user-centered design solutions with strong user experience, visual and interaction design skills that include mobile apps and responsive websites;
- Experience in product design, user interface, user experience, interaction, visual design, and prototyping across web and mobile web platforms;
- Skilled with design tools like Figma, along with prototyping tools such as Principle and Framer;
- Experience working with and contributing to design systems and componentization;
- Experience working in startups or on highly ambitious zero-to-one projects;
- Strong understanding of accessibility best practices for design and software development;
- Works at a high standard of creativity, craft and quality;
- Passion for identifying and solving user problems;
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly-dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders;
- Growth mindset and a desire to learn, teach, and mentor.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience prototyping user interfaces for Android, prototyping for iOS using Swift or Objective-C, SwiftUI or UIKit, and building with web technologies (React/JS) are all a plus.
Additional Information
We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.
We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other status or characteristic protected by, state, or local laws.
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