Product Designer (Contract Role)

At Saatchi we believe in creating ideas that can live anywhere. And we believe that when we work as a team nothing is impossible. We strive to bring out the best in each other and in ourselves and expect applicants to understand the value of close collaboration. We also believe that creating transformational work requires initiative an entrepreneurial spirit and a bold commitment to achieving measurable results and business success for the Clients we service.

This is a contract role in office in Los Angeles on a hybrid work week of four days in office.

Product Designers at Saatchi see no boundary between form and function. They are highly strategic detail-oriented multi-skilled and bring a deep understanding of user experience user interface design visual design and even branding. Collectively they bring these skills together to develop best-in-class experiences for Toyotas digital products.

Creating digital products requires intense collaboration internally and with our clients. Our partners are hands-on and youll work directly with them to define problems develop solutions and prototypes and bring ideas to market. Youll also work closely with Product Managers Strategists and Developers to create original digital products and services that reignite industries and reshape companies.

Our Product Designers are our experts in creative execution. They work alongside the Sr. Product Designers to develop and execute the creative vision while keeping the user and business needs front and center.

• Recommended 3 years of cumulative experience as a user experience designer interaction designer or similar role.
• Demonstrated pragmatic execution of projects within a large organization.
• Ability and desire to solve complex product design problems and the strategy skills to deliver best-in-class solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize and present findings and articulate design rationale.
• Exceptional written verbal and visual communications skills and the ability to build a narrative across a range of formats.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with a track record of meeting short and long-term deadlines in a fast-paced high-volume environment.
• Experience working in an agile or highly-iterative collaborative environment where people share work daily.
• Strong understanding of industry trends and creative tools.
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Figma Sketch Principle Photoshop After Effects etc.

Your Deliverables:

Skills You Will Gain:

• How to think through problems strategically and develop solutions at scale.
• Understanding of design for enterprise platforms. A deep understanding and proficient application of design patterns that span across an assortment of use cases.
• Mastery in tools like Figma Sketch InVision Principle Zeplin etc. as well as file and folder organization.
• Effective thought organization and practice in presenting your design thinking to stakeholders and other creative leadership.
• Deep understanding of design systems and component design best practices. Consistent application of our design system(s) across projects.
• Ability to help guide other designers in creative thinking and coming up with shared creative recommendations.

How You Grow:

Start with Why. You will always seek to understand the problem first before defining solutions. ask a lot of questions and look at challenges from many different angles always looking for a creative solution.

You are curious and motivated by the process. Whether looking to translate inputs into thoughtful solutions or improving our internal process youre always looking for creative solutions and implementing change.

Master Creative Perfection. We pride ourselves in being the leaders in the digital execution of the Toyota brand and always work towards quality and consistency.

Think outside the box. We love ideas that push the creative boundaries. Consistently push new ideas and understand the right time to challenge the status quo.

Be a team player. The best work comes from bringing together creative strategic production and client points-of-view to shape the solution. You should actively partner and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams of designers strategists business analysts analytics product owners and content creators.

Be a strong communicator. You actively show strong thought organization and communication skills internally and externally and use those to help push sell your ideas through and bring them to fruition.

Consistent proven delivery. We always deliver for our Product Owners and users. You are actively engaged in the project ceremonies and consistently deliver polished design thinking on time and to our team standards.

Our Publicis Groupe motto Viva La Différence means were better together and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities across all facets of intersectionality and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage dental vision disability 401K as well as parental and family care leave family forming assistance tuition reimbursement and flexible time off.

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