Senior Product Designer (Game Designer) - TrainingPeaks

General Summary

As a Senior Product Designer, first and foremost, you are a designer. You will be designing intuitive, meaningful and elegant design solutions for our virtual indoor training platform, TrainingPeaks Virtual, along with its impact across our coaching SaaS platforms and consumer athlete based product offerings. Your designs, guided by your intuitive experience in product design and informed by qualitative and quantitative research data will set the tone for a cohesive branded experience across our product offering. You’ll partner with your team engineering leader, 3D world game designers, and product management from the kickoff of a project to the delivery of value to our customers. Discovering new opportunities and testing our assumptions with designed prototypes narrowing down to laser-focused incremental value delivery. You’ll be working alongside other product designers providing guidance and initiating effective collaboration for raising the competencies of the team.

You are a continuous learner with a hunger for knowledge. You approach challenges as opportunities to improve. You value team members’ input from all levels and you actively seek ways to support your colleagues.

You will be embedded with the Product Team, work in close collaboration with the Product Manager, enabled by the UX Designer, and report to the Director of UX.

Core Functions :

• Guiding several diverse design approaches and validating solutions with prototypes, internal and external usability testing, and quantitative / qualitative customer research.
• Driving collaboration with Product Managers to define user problems and produce designs during all stages of the product life cycle — from the discovery of opportunities to the delivery of customer value.
• Facilitating collaboration for conceptual ideas, design rationale, and the specifics of the user-centered design process.
• Partner with Product Managers and Engineers to make product and design decisions inducted by research findings, market trends, business goals, and product design sense.
• Transforming divergent low-fidelity wireframe concepts, rapidly progressing into high-fidelity UI prototypes including design interactions, platform conventions, best practices and design rationale while narrowing down scope to validated solutions.
• Leading design reviews, communicating interaction design concepts to help define development requirements for the best product experiences.
• Pushing the bounds of visual language and experience elements, grounded in visual design principles.
• Assisting engineers in shipping high-quality experiences with detailed design specs, design reviews and regular communication.
• Mentoring within the broader design team to share feedback, maintain our design system and elevate overall product quality and design efficacy.
• Initiate user research initiatives, using quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate the usability of design solutions and reduce our assumptions.

Requirements

Required Qualifications :

Degrees are not required and we value all forms of continued education including traditional four-year degrees, post-graduate degrees, associates degrees, bootcamps, online training, professional certifications, self-teaching and more

Desired Qualifications :

Don’t meet every single requirement? Don’t worry. We still want to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

The work characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Benefits

Compensation :

We are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The annual salary range for this role in Colorado is $107,065 - $178,441. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills, and certifications. This role is eligible for variable compensation including bonus.

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