Product Designer

At Area 23, we believe in the power of asking What If? It's more than a motto, it's the framework that drives our breakthrough creativity. We're a full-service healthcare agency that dismantles barriers to innovation, fueled by a team of 1,100+ entrepreneurial, passionate, curious, and fun people who love pushing boundaries together.

Now we're looking for a Product Designer with 2-4 years of user-centric product design experience to join our team. In this role, you'll partner with fellow Product Designers to bring digital products to life, whether that's a website, mobile site, native app, experiential UX/UI, or even a voice app.

You'll collaborate closely with Creative, Strategy, Production, and Technology to design solutions that not only meet business goals but truly resonate with end users. Your work will include building flawless design systems and pattern libraries, always guided by the question: What if we could make this experience even better for the people who need it most?

At Area 23, you'll learn, grow, and innovate alongside a collaborative team that thrives on sharing ideas, experimenting boldly, and creating digital products that make a real-world impact.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

General Responsibilities

• Learn to support brand team's digital platform needs with UI design iterations from concept through product launch and/or product maintenance phases.
• Utilize industry tools to design digital product layout and iteration for assigned projects. Layouts should be complementary to visual tone and typography style of existing branding and campaign imagery.
• Learn the basics of the assigned brand, including individual client names and personalities, brand name, branding elements, safety indication(s) etc.
• Gain an understanding of audience priorities, and develop designs and creative styles to appropriately meet those needs.
• Prioritize learning the pharmaceutical healthcare basics regarding regulatory legal rules, client product and patient medical science and technical requirements, as well as any client digital knowledge, brand guidelines, product specifications, and CMS conditions.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with UX partner to ensure the design lines up with the previously created architecture.
• Work together productively with assigned brand team.
• Develop strong working relationships with relevant agency departments including Tech development, Creative, Editorial, Account Marketing, Strategy and Health Literacy, and Project Management.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including UX architects, developers, art directors, copywriters, and project managers.
• Communicate with team members and supervisor regarding deadlines, revisions, and design quality consistency.
• Proactively approach supervisor with new ideas and suggestions for personal career growth and team dynamics and development.
• Demonstrate detail-oriented and organized approach to daily responsibilities.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor's Degree (preferred); Field: Marketing/advertising, Human-Computer Interaction, visual communication, graphic design, or related discipline

Nice to have: UI/Product Design certification program (equivalent or similar to certificate programs offered at Google, General Assembly, Nielson Norman etc. )

EXPERIENCE:

2-4 years Experience;

UI Design, Visual Communications, Graphic Design, Art Direction and Design or related field (preferred).

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES:

Knowledge Level: Advanced Beginner

• Competent in design software such as Adobe XD, Figma & Sketch
• Understand the importance and basics of ADA compliance and requirements, and apply them through the use of proper color contrast and tools like Stark and Contrast
• *Understand the basics of how design relates to code
• Proficient in design software such as Adobe XD, Figma & Sketch
• Understand the importance and basics of ADA compliance and requirements, and apply them through the use of proper color contrast and tools like Stark and Contrast
• *Understand the basics of how design relates to code

Visual design:

• Demonstrate a working knowledge of composition [Gestalt] design principles
• Understand typography hierarchy and how those principles should be applied across digital platforms.
• Display robust knowledge of color theory.

UI design:

• Collaborate with UX partner to translate wireframes into layouts .
• Proficiency in building and maintaining a design system.
• Ability to take a brand team's design from print (or other materials) to digital platforms.
• Be aware of current product design/UI best practices. Keep up-to-date with trends, techniques, and
• software.

Creativity:

• Exhibit the ability to design creatively within designated limitations.
• Establish capacity to pivot as needed via creative problem solving.
• Display conceptual thinking and ability to visually represent consistent story flow through a single product and/or project series.
• Develop uniquely fresh ideas.
• Demonstrate a voracious curiosity to learn about new ideas, current and developing industry knowledge, teammates' roles, and client brand.
• Display a willingness to share new knowledge with teammates.

SALARY

$70,000 - $95,000 annually.

The salary range for this position is noted within this job posting. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee's/applicant's background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

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