Job Description

Senior Product Designer (UX)

Focus

More autonomous execution, setting a standard, influencing others, showing emerging leadership.

Summary

At Mondo Robot (mondorobot.com), we design and build digital experiences that move the human experience forward. We specialize in experience strategy, product design, interactive design, digital branding, full stack engineering and buttery smooth interfaces.

We are looking for someone to enter our circle of designers who who can collaborate in the execution of engaging and effective digital experience work as a key tactical contributor in the design process, while setting a standard of execution that elevates the experiences we create and inspires the culture and practices of our team.

As a Senior Product Designer - UX Focus at Mondo Robot, you’ll be an emerging design leader who will work directly with other designers, cross-functional team members and key partner stakeholders to conceptualize, define, and design the strategy, experience design and user interfaces for innovative digital products and interactive experiences.

You’ll be both passionate and pragmatic, working autonomously and thinking broadly across platforms and domains while diving deep into pixels, micro-interactions, and overarching vision. You’ll be a standard bearer in your chosen design specializations who can lead by example and inspire other designers on the team, with a strong bias for action including the ability to juggle multiple priorities and effectively deliver in a collaborative, fast paced and dynamic environment.

We are based out of Boulder, CO, but this role is fully remote. You will report to the Executive Creative Director.

Skills & Qualifications

This position requires 5+ years experience as a UX, UI or Product Designer, preferably in a product company or agency environment.

Your primary skills are…

• An ability to work autonomously on large scale digital product and interactive experience design projects as a primary tactical contributor
• Strong skills in Figma, Adobe CC and any other relevant design tools
• Specialization in one or more key areas of the digital experience design process, including product strategy, UX, UI and interactive design; or general skills in each that go deep enough to execute holistically across entire projects
• Asking the right questions, identifying key challenges, determining opportunities, and proposing elegant design solutions
• An understanding of how to develop, articulate and leverage strategic perspectives in the design process
• Working to understand the needs of the user, business operator, brand and engineering teams, to ensure your design solutions deliver real value to each of them
• Collaborating with design talent across a variety of specializations, including strategy, UX, UI, interactive and prototyping
• A meticulous attention to detail and rigorous documentation habits
• Defending your work effectively and appropriately with strong rationale, and feeding off of meaningful feedback
• A hunger for learning more about your chosen specializations, and a desire to understand and contribute to all phases of design
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with colleagues and partners
• Developing focused narratives that support the work, with the ability to present them to internal teams and client partners
• Collaborating with engineers, product owners and subject matter experts across the project workflow and seeking to let their expertise influence the outcomes of your design
• Having a top-notch portfolio that reflects strengths in conceptual thinking, UX, and visual design

You have experience with...

• Inspiring others on your team with the way you do and position your work
• Designing for a range of digital products and experiences across channels, industries and audiences
• Collaborating with your team to create the best possible, most well-crafted product
• Researching and understanding conventional and novel design patterns across UX and UI, and considering their utility within the context of your own designs
• Using emotional intelligence and empathy to build strong bonds within internal and external teams
• Generating alignment on design solutions with unique perspectives and documentation
• Analyzing and organizing complex content structures
• Understanding the impact technology and business requirements have on the feasibility of a design solution
• Staying on top of emerging technology and design trends
• Design systems, including how to build, contribute to and evolve them as a product or solution scales
• Dev handoff
• User testing

You might also know something about…

• 3D, Animation, Illustration, Video Editing and Front End Engineering are not required but any are a plus
• User research and user testing, including quantitative and qualitative methodologies
• Generative AI tools, including Claude, MidJourney, ChatGPT and generative video
• Agile software development process and the role of design therein

You want to join a team that…

• Views ego and arrogance as character flaws
• Thinks by making and doing
• Has a love for the human experience that extends into and beyond the work
• Cares about the culture and goals of the team and organization, and supports each other personally and professionally
• Has a passion for real world experiences both individual and shared
• Gets scrappy to bring a collective vision to life by any means possible
• Positions constraints as opportunities, and breaks down artificial barriers to getting the work done well

Benefits

• Competitive medical (100% subsidized for employee), dental and vision plan offerings
• 401k with company match
• Comprehensive list of paid holidays including a holiday break
• Flexible time off (FTO) policy
• Partial mobile phone service reimbursement
• Generous supplemental leave policies
• Numerous company-sponsored events / activities throughout the year