ABOUT LIFESIZE
At Lifesize, we understand the power of connecting people to make the
workplace great. For more than a decade, Lifesize has been at the
forefront of video collaboration, delivering high-quality solutions
designed to bring people together. We combine a best-in-class,
cloud-based video conferencing experience, with award-winning,
easy-to-use devices that are designed for any conference room so you can
connect to anyone, anywhere. It’s a meeting experience like no other.
Our video conferencing solutions are designed for the demands of today’s
modern enterprise, yet fully accessible to businesses of any size. For
more information, visit www.lifesize.com or follow the
company @LifesizeHD.
As a Product Designer you'll focus on crafting the user experience and
UI for our award-winning mobile, Web, and desktop apps, and high-end
video conferencing phones and cameras. You'll collaborate with us to
translate concepts, ideas, and requirements into elegant visuals,
intuitive interactions, and meaningful motion. We move fast around here
so flexibility, transparency, and a passion for expanding your personal
toolbox of skills are key qualities we look for in our team.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- You’ll work with project teams to craft experiences and user
interfaces that both delight users and fulfill business goals
- Work both autonomously in pursuit of elegant solutions to open-ended
problems and collaboratively with team members on enhancements to
large-scale design improvements for our products
- You will build everything from design assets, specs, wireframes,
flow diagrams, and guidelines to communicate your design direction
to stakeholders and implementation teams
- Use and contribute toward growing our existing design system and
evangelize atomic design principles
- Communicate your decision-making rationale with confidence but
receive constructive critique and art direction with a respectful,
patient style
- Find creative ways to incorporate feedback from team members,
stakeholders, and usability testing to improve and refine your
design ideas
- Learn and become an expert user of Lifesize video conferencing
products
SKILLS REQUIRED
You're an expert at infusing life into your designs and communicating
how they fit into a larger product design vision
You love iterating through a lot of creative options before narrowing
down to the strongest solutions, and can explain your thought process
and design rationale
You’re STRONG IN AT LEAST TWO of the following and CAPABLE IN TWO
OTHERS:
- Designing pixel perfect user interfaces using advanced features in
Sketch—from text styles through nested symbols—but can make use of
Photoshop and Illustrator when they’re the right tool for the job
- Creating meaningful UI animations and transitions using tools like
AfterEffects, Principle, or Framer
- Demonstrating your ideas through prototypes using tools like
InVision, Marvel, and Axure
- Writing crisp, clear, and concise user-facing copy with a strategy
for how every single word choice serves our user’s goals (especially
when those words are translated into over a dozen languages)
- Transforming complex tasks into intuitive and easy-to-use flows and
screen designs that help users confidently achieve their goals
- Conducting research to understand our users goals, evaluating design
ideas through usability testing, then sharing that information with
the rest of the team
- Applying your art direction skills to ensure the strategy behind
your design both evokes the right emotional reaction and fits an
existing brand
- Creating reusable creative assets and documenting design patterns
with the goal of scaling a team’s design output while maintaining
consistency across project teams and products
Have a working knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of HTML5,
CSS3, and javascript? You have our attention
QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of experience in the user experience or visual design of
product UIs
- BA or BFA in a relevant field, or equivalent number of years of
relevant experience
- An online portfolio that gives us an idea of your design experience,
especially your shipped products
- Able to juggle multiple priorities and projects in a dynamic and
fast-paced environment
- Strong analytical thinking skills with the demonstrated ability to
understand and reconcile complex, interdependent and occasionally
competing requirements
- Knowledge and understanding of software product lifecycle and
experience working in a collaborative agile/Lean environment
preferred
- Experience designing products for a global audience preferred
- Confident in applying best practices and established design patterns
to common design problems
- Intellectual curiosity, an attitude of continuous improvement, and
an eye for detial
Lifesize, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Lifesize does not
discriminate against any applicant for employment because of age,
gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity,
veteran status, or disability.