Fuel Cycle is seeking a Product Designer to join our growing Product team. As a Product Designer at Fuel Cycle, you’re responsible for creating incredible experiences that empower users, help them fulfill objectives quickly, and place Fuel Cycle at the center of their workflow. As one of the members of the product team, you’ll contribute to our strategic objectives on a regular basis and secure our position as one of the most trusted, innovative platforms in market research. Success in this role is quantified by product adoption and by a strong bias toward shipping product early and often.
Fuel Cycle is the leading all-in-one market research cloud platform. We help the world’s most customer-centric brands such as Google, Hulu, Facebook, Church & Dwight, and Viacom engage directly with their consumers and capture actionable insights through our online communities, panels, product exchanges, and more. Fuel Cycle has been listed as one of LA's Best Places to Work for 2020 by BuiltinLA, Timmy Award winner for LA's Best Tech Company of 2019, and ranked as #11 Most Innovative Research Technology company in the 2019 GRIT report- At Fuel Cycle we’ve fostered a culture of customer obsessed individuals, working passionately to deliver extreme impact and empowering each other.
Responsibilities
- Endless curiosity about people, technology, design, and life
- Produce clear, user-centric design across mobile, desktop, web, and hardware endpoints
- Conduct usability research and testing plans
- Ability to create style guides, design systems, and design libraries to help developers to move faster in development and creating interfaces
- Run usability studies with clients, coordinating with product management to incorporate customer feedback into product roadmaps and make data-driven decisions
- Define metrics for measuring the success of design and ability to make decisions based on those metrics
- Create wireframes, storyboards, and prototypes to test and improve product experiences
- Recognize, define, and create plans to support multiple user personas
Qualifications
- 2+ years in a previous product design, user experience, or interaction designer
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field, including computer science, design, graphic design, or similar
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated skills creating process flows, sitemaps, wireframes, prototypes, and other UX deliverables
- Have a portfolio of previous products in production you can share
- Phenomenal communication skills, and the ability to work across functions to persuade team members of customer needs
- Mastery of design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, InVision, etc.
- Contribute to all aspects of design, including requirement defining, user research, workflow diagramming, and engineering support
- Partner closely with developers, QA, and product managers to rapidly iterate on designs based on user feedback, tech constraints, and market dynamics