Hybrid Senior Product Designer

at nib Group

• Job title: Senior Product Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Newcastle, Australia

About the role

• Senior Product Designer designing internal-facing applications to improve employee and customer experiences at nib. Collaborating with development teams to deliver user-centric solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design high quality experiences and user interfaces for internal users
• Conduct user research with internal users and subject matter experts
• Create prototypes and validate these via sessions with stakeholders (often remotely)
• Work with difficult problems as well as complex constraints, requirements, and ideas
• Design flows that are pragmatic, intuitive and remove or abstract away complexity
• Deliver development-ready designs and work with different development squads to see designs through to implementation
• Facilitate collaborative design, working closely with end users, subject matter experts, analysts, product leads and developers
• Develop a strong understanding of the domain, business processes, and existing systems
• Contribute to presentations and artefacts that communicate product vision and roadmap
• Manage design lifecycle including tracking design versions and organising designs for consumption by a number of squads

Requirements

• 3 or more years working in product, interface or interaction design
• 2 or more years working in a software development team/software engineering environment
• Experience designing internal-facing web applications and experiences
• Experience conducting user interviews and design socialisation sessions remotely
• Strong proficiency in Figma and other design tools
• Strong analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving skills
• The ability to play or grow into a senior role within the product delivery team – e.g., eventually acting as a subject matter expert, leading some pieces, facilitating occasional agile ceremonies and driving your designs through development to delivery
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• The ability to work autonomously and be well organised
• Strong technical awareness – some exposure to writing or editing code would be a plus but is not essential

Benefits

• New starter benefit to help set up a functional home workspace
• 50% discount on employee health insurance + 35% off travel insurance
• The opportunity to give back to the community through paid leave for volunteering through nib foundation
• Access to our nib Well Program and corporate fitness discounts
• Access to employee share plans, short-term incentive program and life and salary continuance insurance benefits
• 18 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents regardless of carer status
• 5 days paid cultural leave for First Nations peoples
• 4 weeks paid gender affirmation leave for trans, gender diverse and intersex employees