Lead Product Designer (Contract Talent)

Location: San Ramon, CA or Remote (Western US Time Zone)

Who We Are

Robert Half, one of FORTUNE’s World’s Most Admired Companies and a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For is hiring for a Lead Product Designer (Contract Talent) to join the Experience Design department.

Are you curious about people and motivated to design product and service experiences that help people find their dream jobs?  Come join our Product Design team of tinkerers, prototypers, and researchers and apply human-centered design to re-imagine a marketplace for talent around the world for our candidates, staffing professionals, and clients.  We’re seeking a Lead Product Designer who is a great product thinker, passionate about user interface design, and cares about making a meaningful impact for people.

As a Lead Product Designer, you’ll be part of a product “squad” and involved in all aspects of the product design process:  framing problems, understanding human behavior through design research, conceptualizing and prototyping early ideas, helping envision future “north star” directions, creating high-res designs and workflows, and collaborating highly with product management, engineering, your own peers, and more!

What You'll Do

• Craft clarity from ambiguity
• Drive meaningful product outcomes working closely with Product and Engineering peers
• Collaborate and communicate design effectively across multiple functions in the organization
• Ability to influence others and build consensus, while dealing with ambiguity
• Systems thinker and ability to see the whole ecosystem and provide solutions that better the entire user flow not just the feature
• Be perceived as a leader in your “squad” that advocates for and applies human-centered design practices

What You'll Need

• High degree of craft for all aspects of product design:  user research, prototyping, interaction and visual design
• Collaborate closely with product owners, engineers and user research to create a vision for your product area and bring others along in your thinking
• Expert knowledge in design tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD
• Capacity to create innovative end-to-end experiences across multiple channels (including web and mobile) that are grounded in human insight, data and business goals
• Experience using analytics, user research and other approaches to help make decisions and iterate on the product
• Experience working with, designing, or maintaining design systems
• Experience working with distributed teams
• Experience working with product management and engineering teams
• Experience leading or facilitating workshops, design sprints, and design studios

Location

Remote applicants encouraged.  Western time zone is a plus.  Company headquarters located in San Ramon, CA.

The typical hourly pay rate for this position is shown below and is negotiable depending upon experience and location.

Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, and dental, and life and disability insurance. Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan. Visit roberthalf.gobenefits.net for more information.

Robert Half Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veteran

As part of Robert Half’s Corporate Services facility employment process, any offer of employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Our recruiters use their expertise and may utilize AI to help with their evaluation of candidates.

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For positions located in San Francisco, CA: Robert Half will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

For positions located in Los Angeles County, CA: Robert Half will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.