Senior Product Designer Details

Senior Product Designer

PayScale - Seattle, WA

Employment Type : Full-Time

Company Description

As the industry leader in compensation data and technology, PayScale helps organizations #getpayright. PayScale is the only technology solution for managing compensation that provides multiple streams of fresh, transparently curated and validated salary data. Combined with modeling engines that learn continuously and generate recommendations and insight, PayScale empowers HR to price jobs and adjust compensation to reflect real-time changes in the market — all on one trusted data platform. With PayScale’s Adaptive Compensation Advantage, teams operate with efficiency, focused on outcomes rather than manual data management. To learn how companies like The Washington Post, Perry Ellis International, United Healthcare and The New York Times rely on PayScale to attract and retain top talent, motivate and engage employees and plan their future workforce, visit payscale.com.

What We Do: Our team crafts the future of PayScale. We dive deep with our customers and create a compelling product vision that empowers compensation professionals with clear, effective solutions. Our work helps ensure professionals everywhere get paid what they deserve.

What You Do: You will partner with product, engineering, data science, and design to create industry-leading customer experiences for our engaged professionals. This means assessing their needs and turning them into valued product experiences, while ensuring we build a resonant brand through interaction and UI design. Over time, you’ll help establish a deep understanding of the space and rally the team around your vision, challenging the team to raise the bar for our product.

Experience:

• 6-10 years of demonstrated ability as a UX or Product Designer
• A portfolio with easily understandable case studies that tells compelling stories about each of your product successes

Skills:

• Strong experience turning customer research into premier product experiences
• Deep knowledge of UX research and appropriate application of research methodologies
• Knowledge of design systems, information architecture, and designing with data
• Experience with research influenced design and customer-centric product process

Tools:

• Strong Experience with design software such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and InVision
• Research tools such as Dovetail, Pendo, and Gong
• Process tools such as Jira and ProductBoard

Meet Your Manager: This role will report to Jason Kopec, the Head of Design at PayScale. Jason has been a design professional for 20 years, and built product and scaled teams at Convoy, Amazon, Redfin, and Microsoft.

Hiring Process: “Change is the only constant in life (and PayScale)” – Heraclitus (okay, so we paraphrased a bit). The hiring process outlined below is a rough overview, and is subject to change based on business priority, interviewer availability, etc.

• Speak with one of our friendly recruiters.
• Speak with the hiring manager, Jason
• Design exercise.
• Participate in a virtual hiring loop.

Benefits & Perks – The Highlights:

All around awesome culture where together we strive to:

• Pursue excellence every day
• Create customer value
• Compete to win (and lose!) as a team

As part of our culture of transparency and commitment to employee engagement, we have several programs and resources such as:

• Regular virtual company meetings
• Coffee chats
• Table for 4 Executive conversation
• Spirit Week
• Pulsing tools for continuous conversations to drive performance and career growth
• Strengths based tools designed to help employees engage with peers and managers, supported through a program called StandOut
• Access to top notch learning courses for all employees through LinkedIn Learning
• As well as constant re-evaluation of what our employees need to be successful at work!

Our more standard benefits include:

• Flexible Paid Time Off program – most employees average around 3 weeks per year
• 14 paid holidays including Independence Week, Juneteenth and World Mental Health Day
• 3 comprehensive health plans to fit your unique needs; plans have up to 100% company-paid premium coverage for employee Medical, Dental and Vision
• Access to Premera’s Healthcare Services including an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), 24-hour Nurse Hotline, Telehealth (Doctor on Demand), Talkspace, and other virtual care options
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations towards: Medical, Dependent Care, Parking, and Transit
• Company Paid Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance
• Comprehensive Paid Parental / Adoption Leave program
• 401k program with fully vested, immediate company match

Equal Opportunity Employer: We embrace equal employment opportunity.

PayScale is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. It is our policy that employees will not be subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, political ideology and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to: recruitment, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, discipline, termination, compensation and benefits, performance appraisals, education, and social and recreational programs.