Join Charles River as a Product Designer as we reimagine and enable our digital transformation through design thinking. As a Product Designer, you will be responsible for a set of activities including conducting initial user research, driving a solution vision based on business and user insights, designing desirable and intuitive multi-channel experiences, developing wireframes and visual designs, and iteratively validating solutions with users. An ideal candidate will have experience designing in data-rich environments.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
•Advocate for user-centered design solutions
•Conduct user research to discover insights, define user personas, and map user journeys
•Create distinctive, branded digital experiences that are desirable and consistent across multiple platforms, devices and channels
•Develop new product concepts, storyboards, detailed interaction designs and screen flows, and prototypes to clearly articulate solutions
•Creates compelling visual designs that align to company and product brand standards
•Conduct concept and usability testing to iteratively validate and improve design solutions
•Actively collaborate as part of an agile team to ensure designs are feasible and implemented accurately
•Track user experience metrics and reports on the success of UX improvements, including analytics
•Perform all other related duties as assigned.
Job Qualifications
The following are minimum requirements related to the Product Designers:

•Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Design, MIS, or Engineering preferred
•Experience: Hands-on experience designing consumer applications for desktop, web, and mobile.
•Proven experience working in design teams in an Agile product development setting.
•Able to plan, conduct, and synthesize user research and usability testing.
•Skilled at creating interaction design solutions for desktop, web and mobile applications.
•Strong visual design skills, able to create compelling, branded, high-fidelity product screens.
•Familiar working with design systems that are consistently scalable.