Product Designer IV

A client with Kforce is seeking a Product Designer IV to join their team in Mountain View, CA. Summary: As a Principal Product Designer, you'll be joining a team of cross-functional experts who raise the bar on end-to-end experiences across multiple touchpoints. You'll combine your love of design craft with expert collaboration through all phases of the design cycle. We're looking for a candidate who is passionate about design and innovation, a creative problem solver, and an advocate of beautiful and seamless customer experiences. The Principal Product Designer reports to the Design Manager for QuickBooks Mexico. You must love:

• Emotionally connecting with customers
• Designing seamless end-to-end customer experiences
• Solving complex problems
• Rapid experimentation and agile design
• Being scrappy and wearing multiple hats

• Apply strategic thinking to design and deliver innovative end-to-end user experiences optimized for user needs, business goals, and technological realities across web & mobile platforms
• Take ideas and concepts, and visualize them in such a way that they are communicated effectively and compellingly for internal leaders, partners and customers
• Delivering User Experience ideal state visions, UI specifications, wireframes and prototypes
• Drive usability testing and rapid feedback cycles with customers to inform iteration, refinement and launch of prioritized concepts and features
• Collaborate effectively with researchers, product management, engineering, marketing, and other team members to set expectations for project scope and delivery, and communicate and refine solutions
• Use facilitative leadership skills to drive to the best outcome for stakeholders, resulting in others learning from you, and inspiring others to want to work with you
• Participate in and foster the clients Experience Design Community and mentor junior members of the design team
• To be considered for this position, candidates must have experience in a similar role, or they must possess significant knowledge, experience, and abilities to successfully perform the responsibilities listed
• Relevant education and/or training will be considered a plus