What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Designer position at Zurb?
About the position
Our Designers are experienced in many facets of design, enabling them to create amazing work across a broad spectrum of projects and people. We seek to make every interaction a positive experience. Designers work closely with other ZURBians, supporting their learning and growth in new and existing areas of interest. Designers open new doors of opportunity through iteration and prototyping. We expect our Designers to understand related skills and disciplines to collaborate with experts in other areas of business. A Designer’s expertise will be applied to various areas throughout the business.
We're looking for someone who gets people and understands business. Who can quickly synthesize research and get to answers. Someone that is full of idea’s and is excited about solving the problem!
- User Interface/Experience Design – wireframes, weighting elements, boxes and arrows, flow, and great general common sense
- Visual Design Chops – you will create icons, illustrations, and compelling visual design elements
- Words – you will provide clear, written explanations, compelling writing, and the occasional clever or funny email
- Proven Leadership – experience managing projects, deadlines, etc
- Client Interaction – you will be comfortable presenting your work to clients and working with feedback
- Front-End Development – HTML/CSS/Javascript, web standards, frameworks like jQuery would be great. Experience integrating with Rails would be cool
- Analytics – you will have the ability to understand metrics in order to make informed decisions
Tools we use
FIGMA!
We use Figma to collaborate on internal and client design projects.
Full List
Sometimes, specific tasks require specific tools. Here is a list of tools we utilize from time to time.
- Adobe Suite
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- Google Office: Docs, Sheets, Slides etc…
- Sketch
- ProCreate
- Marvel (prototyping)
- PowerPoint
- Dropbox
Who we are
We're a team of driven product designers who believe in rapid prototyping, multi-device design, and teaching people how to design. We've been around since 1998, creating world-class products that hundreds of millions of people actually use. We believe Design, with a capital "D", can change the world, and we ensure it does. We need your help to build better products that solve problems and meet our customers needs.
What Your Day Will Look Like
Working closely with the team, your day may consist of sketching for a client project while creating hi-fi wireframes for another, using a customers’ analytics to make design decisions and hoping on a call with our customers to present your work. Work with our Design Leads, who will coach you through tough problems and challenge your assumptions. You’ll design, collaborate and make decisions internally for our research tool, Helio. You'll go home knowing that you accomplished a great deal to create wins for our customers, our team and yourself. You will learn a lot and grow fast, which is just one of the many perks of being a Designer at ZURB.
A little more about us
ZURB is a close-knit product design team based in Campbell, CA. We've been around since 1998, have helped more than 500 startups design some kick-ass online products and created many of our own products, like Foundation and Helio. Our customers range from large, well-known companies (Netflix, Hulu, eBay, Samsung, Mozilla, Facebook, Columbia) to start-ups. They all came to us because of our reputation for delivering killer ideas that work.