Product Designer

Description:

At Samsung TV Plus UX team, we are seeking a talented and experienced Senior Product Designer with a strong focus on visual design to join our multidisciplinary design team. You will help define the vision for the service with ownership over critical features that shape the viewer experience. This role requires utilizing design systems and understanding service brand architecture to drive UI/UX solutions ensuring coherent branded experiences across Samsung devices. You will be responsible for creating innovative, user-centered solutions for our products. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, researchers, engineers, and stakeholders, to deliver exceptional user experiences. Your expertise in design thinking, interaction design, and visual design will be crucial in driving product success and creating visually appealing user experience.

Role and Responsibilities

The Samsung global services team is responsible for driving Smart TV and mobile services businesses by building intelligent, integrated, cross-platform services that delight and entertain users.

Samsung TV Plus is Samsung’s direct-to-consumer OTT video service featuring ad-supported linear channels and ad-supported VOD. In the US, TV Plus launched in April 2018 and is currently available on 2016-23 model Samsung Smart TVs, recent Galaxy mobile devices, and more.

At Samsung TV Plus UX team, we are seeking a talented and experienced Senior Product Designer with a strong focus on visual design to join our multidisciplinary design team. You will help define the vision for the service with ownership over critical features that shape the viewer experience. This role requires utilizing design systems and understanding service brand architecture to drive UI/UX solutions ensuring coherent branded experiences across Samsung devices. You will be responsible for creating innovative, user-centered solutions for our products. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, researchers, engineers, and stakeholders, to deliver exceptional user experiences. Your expertise in design thinking, interaction design, and visual design will be crucial in driving product success and creating visually appealing user experience.

Responsibility:

• Lead the end-to-end design process, from ideation and concept development to final execution on detailed design specification, ensure a user-centered approach throughout.
• Crete wireframes, user flows, basic prototypes, and visually stunning designs that effectively communicate design concepts, interaction and brand identity.
• Partner and coordinate with product team, designers, and engineers to conceptualize and build visually appealing user interfaces.
• Work with UX researchers to design and observe user studies, then translate user needs and research findings into final design solutions
• Contribute to high-level concepts and executive reviews but also pitch in on detail-level design work

• Iterate on designs based on user feedback, usability testing, and data-driven insights to continuedly improve product experience.
• Provide design guidance and mentorship to junior designers, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented design culture.

• Stay updated with the latest design trends, tools and techniques, and proactively apply them to enhance the design process and deliver cutting-edge solutions.

Qualifications:

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field with an emphasis in Visual Design.

• 7+ years of experience as a Product Designer for consumer products with an expectational foundation in interaction design, visual design system, typography, and graphic design

• Solid design experience on cross devices, preferably in the 10ft UI devices

• Have experience leading/contributing to multiple consumer products from concept to execution

• Have an incredible eye for detail and have high standards for visual craftsmanship.

• Highly proficient in all applicable design software (Sketch, Figma, Cinema 4D Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects, and Principle)

• Ability to manage and lead multiple projects, prioritize different tasks in a fast-paced environment and deliver high quality work on schedule

• Ability to use qualitative and quantitative data to drive design decisions.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts and rationale to cross-functional teams and senior leaderships.

• Has strong background in working with a design system to optimize product implementation

• An exceptional design portfolio is required to be considered for this position. Candidate should showcase work demonstrating impactful consumer product design solutions. The portfolio should be well-versed and clearly articulate user problems, and the final design solution

• Leadership skills and the ability to provide guidance and mentorship to junior designers.