Senior Product Designer (Concept & Innovation)

Role Overview

Senior Product Designer (Concept & Innovation) joining a small, collaborative innovation team. This role focuses on design thinking, research, and rapid prototyping to solve ambiguous business problems—rather than producing production-ready UI.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand ambiguous challenges and identify innovation opportunities
• Translate high-level problem statements into multiple conceptual solution approaches
• Conduct user research and discovery to understand customer needs, workflows, and pain points
• Use user insights and analytics to inform design decisions and validate concepts
• Create user journeys, wireframes, storyboards, and high-fidelity interactive prototypes in Figma
• Rapidly iterate designs based on stakeholder feedback and research findings
• Present concepts and prototypes to business leaders to influence vision and decision-making
• Collaborate with Product, UX Research, and Engineering throughout discovery
• Facilitate design thinking/ideation sessions to explore multiple solution paths
• Balance business objectives, user needs, and technical feasibility while keeping the user experience central

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of Product Design, UX Design, or Digital Product Design experience
• Proven ability to solve ambiguous business problems through research and conceptual design
• Advanced Figma skills, including interactive prototyping
• Strong visual design skills and modern, intuitive UX instincts
• Experience conducting user research and synthesizing findings into actionable recommendations
• Experience using user analytics/behavioral insights to influence design decisions
• Ability to communicate design rationale to executive/business stakeholders
• Strong collaboration across Product, Researchers, and Engineering
• Excellent storytelling and presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing consumer-facing (B2C) digital products
• Background in innovation, product discovery, or concept design
• Experience facilitating workshops/brainstorming/design thinking exercises
• Familiarity with analytics tools such as Amplitude, Mixpanel, GA4, FullStory, or similar
• Experience working in Agile product environments

Location & Engagement

• Atlanta, GA (primarily remote; local candidates preferred for occasional onsite meetings)
• Duration: 6+ month contract