Simpson Strong-Tie Vietnam

Overview of job

As a Senior Product Designer (UXPD) at Simpson Strong-Tie, you will be responsible for driving the design process from concept to production, ensuring the creation of innovative and high-quality products that meet both user needs and industry standards. You will be a part of a cross-functional team, collaborating with front-end engineers, project managers, and subject matter experts to build world-class user experiences. 

This role is crucial in contributing to the success of Simpson Strong-Tie as a leader in the construction solutions industry. This is a hands-on creative role, supporting the user experience of a suite of single page web applications. Last but not least, you will also collaborate with the other Product Designers and enable grown for the Team.

Main responsibilities:

• Design wireframes, user flows, interactions, and experiences that are simple, intuitive, and consistent.
• Deep understanding of design system principles and best practices.
• Assist in conducting usability studies, UX research, and competitive research.
• Use data to drive your design decisions.
• Quickly iterate on design solutions with outputs like wireframes, interaction flows, high-fidelity mockups, user stories, screen specs, personas, etc.
• Rapid prototyping as a means to quickly explore, iterate, and convey design solutions to solve difficult UX challenges.
• Be an advocate for design thinking and help promote its use throughout the organization.
• Help establish frameworks and style guides as well as promote and encourage their use.
• Provide training and knowledge sharing.

Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, or a related field preferred.

4+ years of proven experience in product design, with a comprehensive and diverse portfolio.

Design:

• Strong design sense with regard to layout, color theory, composition, and typography.
• Strong knowledge in wireframing, prototyping, user testing, interaction, and visual design.
• Good user research and usability testing.
• Software and Technology:
• Expert level skills in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Familiarity with JIRA and Confluence.
• Portfolio: A strong portfolio demonstrating production ready visual and interactive product design across web and mobile platforms.

Communication:

• Excellent speaking skill and can clearly articulate your ideas, designs, and suggestions.
• Ability to write in a clear, concise and organized manner for the intended audience. 
• Ability to effectively present information to groups of managers, team members and customers. 
• Fluency in English is a must. 

Personal qualities: Teamwork, reliable, leadership, integrity, trustworthy, punctuality, creativity, confidence, courageous, flexibility, interpersonal skills.

Knowledge: Design Principles, ideation, branding, typography, UI Design, UX Design and Prototyping, design Tools, stylings, prior knowledge of HTML and CSS is a plus.

Others:

• Able to perform Research and Development (R&D), and keep updates with trends.
• Able to propose, define, and optimize processes.
• Able to train and grow competencies for self and others.
• Able to manage other team member(s) is a plus.