Why Praxent
We believe that the work we do is changing the world of financial services. Every day clients arrive with big ideas to beat their competitors with innovative changes reach new users with better experiences or redesign entire products. All thats left is the right team to bring that vision to life. If youre a fast learner and you enjoy working on a wide variety of projects youre going to like it here.
At Praxent we let you do your work your way. Were a team of 130 located throughout the United States and Central/South America. Our role is to encourage you support you and give you the freedom you need to thrive. Whether youre working at home in a coffee shop or at a coworking space were here to create an environment that lets you live your best life. On your terms.
We trust our people to be their best. Its a level of autonomy and respect thats helped us grow a diverse and brilliant team of experts. Experts who also happen to be some of the best colleagues youve ever worked alongside.
This role has been categorized as a Remote position. Remote employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and instead work from a physical location of their choice which must be identified to the Company. Employees may live in the following locations: Texas Colorado Florida Georgia Massachusetts Maryland Minnesota North Carolina Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina Washington and Wisconsin.
What Youll Do
Were looking for a Principal Product Designer to lead the delivery of outstanding user experiences across our diverse portfolio of projects. In this role youll be instrumental in crafting experience visions collaborating with clients to refine design scope championing the importance of design and fostering compromise when needed to achieve optimal outcomes.
Your expertise will be pivotal in pushing boundaries to devise innovative solutions and reframing projects to align with both business objectives and user needs.
Additionally youll play a key role in nurturing emerging talent through mentorship while also contributing to team cohesion and departmental success by effectively managing resources and offering valuable feedback to colleagues.
The design team covers a broad spectrum of practice areas including: discovery and analysis user research information architecture interaction design product design and occasional brand and visual design. Your ability and desire to justify design decisions with strong rationale supporting research and/or best practices is a must.
- Define Success: Shape estimate propose and lead product design engagements by casting a clear vision and adapting strategies as needed to ensure project success.
- Lead Design: Showcase your mastery in UX UI and User Research. Facilitate workshops Create UX artifacts establish style and UI systems prepare for and meet with endusers and lead teams through challenges ensuring highquality outcomes.
- Innovate Delightfully: Impress our clients with insightful and unexpected value that creates compelling case studies to highlight the success and impact of our products.
Wed Love to Hear From You If:
- You have 7 years of experience in product design. You specialize in UX UI and User Research. You are knowledgeable in frontend development visual design/branding and design systems.
- Youre prolific. You have lost count of how many digital products you have designed yourself or helped design.
- You have 1 years of design leadership. You define inspire and drive the of an experience vision across multiple projects.
- You want a seat at the table. Youre interested in sales and all the touchpoint meetings thereafter. You want to sit alongside other disciplines and present a unified and collaborative vision for every project.
- You know the trends but dont need to follow them. You are uptodate on the latest design trends and best practices. You also know the best design solution is the right one.
- Youre competent to the core. You understand the foundational principles of web and mobile designfrom user experience to interaction design to information architecture to content strategy and so on.
- You communicate ever so clearly. Your presentations are pristine powerful and persuasive. (You love alliteration. More importantly you listen. Its how you always know what to say.
Required Skills
- Proficiency with Figma
- Ability and desire to justify design decisions with strong rationale
- Experience designing features for software applications and systems
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities
- Experience conducting user research
- Experience working with client stakeholders in an agency or freelance setting
What Youll Love About Us
- Stability. Weve been in business for over 20 years.
- Work stays at work. We promote a healthy work/life balance to help ensure you have the time that you need. We encourage no more than a 40 hour work week.
- Great company culture. Weve been recognized by Texas Monthly Clutch Comparably and more for the quality of our workplace. Feel free to check out our rating on Glassdoor.
- Were here to empower you. Its your work and your career. Our management team is here to help you become who you want to be. Not to micromanage you.
- Stay healthy. We offer medical dental and vision coverage as well as wellness days. We also provide disability insurance and we even have a wellness program.
- Plan for the future. We dont want you to work here forever. Save for retirement with an IRA and well match up to 3 every year.
- We value your ideas. At Praxent our doors are always open. Need help Come on in. Have a vision for the future of the company Wed love to hear it.
- Rest and relaxation. Employees enjoy 15 days of PTO 9 US holidays 5 wellness days and a closed office the last week of the year. Employees earn more PTO each year.
- Youre more than an employee youre a person. Every coworker youll meet is committed to treating you with respect and kindness. You wont hear stuff like Its just business.
- Family values. Praxent provides paid parental leave.
The US base salary range for this fulltime position is $138000 $162000 benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including jobrelated skills experience and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.