Paychex Hiring for Product Designer Lead at San Jose, California Full Time

Product Designer Lead

Information Technology

US – Remote No Office Location

INF-22-00108

Description

Our collaborative UX team of 50+ individuals work to deliver high-quality experiences to a broad user base. As a part of our team, you’ll have the chance to interact with the latest technologies like wearables, artificial intelligence, voice-driven interfaces, and so much more. Come join our diverse and inclusive product team that is creating the next generation of experiences in the small to mid-size business space!

About this Role

At Paychex, a Product Design Lead’s primary responsibility is to clarify, understand, and document the goals of a project and the core problems to be solved, then lead with user-focused solutions within our business constraints while also leading a team of designers through related work. In this role, you will be responsible for establishing and driving adoption of processes and methodologies to achieve the UX Strategy. You will identify areas of need for design direction, lead user-focused thinking across product portfolios, and conduct and lead design reviews with designers at key project milestones, and steward projects into best-in-class experiences. You will guide projects to align with documented goals by empowering the UX team to drive innovative approaches.

Your days will be filled with…

• Acting as leader and designer on teams, providing user-driven design solutions, user flows, prototypes, and high fidelity UI designs that meet project and strategic goals.

• Setting standards for design need assessments in formative stages of projects.

• Setting standards for design language, collaboration processes, and tools amongst the UX team and within and across project teams.

• Contributing to formation of UX strategy.

• Defining and tracks key behavioral analytics to clarify usability objectives and measure success.

• Ensuring design solution approaches and major milestone deliverables align with company UX strategy and standards. Conducts reviews and approves design deliverables to maintain integrity of design language.

• Proactively identifying common UX elements across project teams and manages shared design solutions where appropriate.

• Providing feedback on work output to User Experience Designers and serves as a mentor on design standards, tools and processes

• Identifying and escalating to management project deliverables that do not meet UX strategy and standards.

• Identifying project and team level resource issues that impact quality of UX delivery so that appropriate assignments can be planned and executed.

• Other duties as assigned to support the general purpose of the user experience function.

Please apply if you…

• Want to lead teams towards successful project outcomes.

• Thrive in bringing clarity to project scopes with leadership partners.

• Live to drive user-focused solution thinking that creates best-in-class experiences.

• Love wrangling complex problems and systems to deliver excellent, empowering experiences.

• Enjoy connecting smaller details to bigger strategy.

• Want to work for a company that explores ways of growing their product portfolio.

• Are looking for career advancement opportunities.

• Genuinely appreciate and desire tight collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams.

You’ll get…

• Remote-friendly working situation

• Standard working hours so you can enjoy life outside of work

• Health, dental and vision coverage

• Retirement benefits with matching potential

• Training and support for your career growth

Requirements

You’ll bring…

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Visual, Motion, Interaction, Information Architecture, HCI, UX or related area of study

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a UX design role or the related industry experience

• Background in User Experience, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), UI design, and usability

• Ability to drive multiple projects to successful completion

• Demonstrated experience leading all the facets of the design process

• A passion and high proficiency for clear information design

• Ability to example and lead the execution of user research, visual design, UI design, interaction design, and prototyping.

• Demonstrated ability to work with design systems and standards

• Experience working with Sketch, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite and related programs

• Solid communication and collaboration skills

Our Commitment

Paychex is dedicated to fostering a culture of intentional Inclusion and Diversity (I&D). Our valued employees and commitment to I&D is the essence of our internal and external success. Inclusivity is a key value of our corporate culture and is exemplified through our reputation as a top employer for employee development, diversity, and ethics, as well as a focus on fairness in recruitment, selection, and decision making.

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We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.