Senior Product Designer

Los Angeles, CA
September 9, 2024
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Job Description

About the Role

We’re looking for a seasoned Senior Product Designer to revolutionize our AI-driven video production platform. This role places you at the forefront of video production technology, using AI to redefine content creation.

As an integral part of our team, you’ll lead the design and user experience, ensuring our product exceeds market expectations. Your role will cover the full product design lifecycle, from new feature development to strategic launches and user engagement.

This opportunity is perfect for a designer who is deeply passionate about leveraging the latest technology to make a significant contribution to the AI video production field. We invite you to spearhead our efforts in reshaping the world of video production.

About Lemonlight

Lemonlight is at the forefront of the video production revolution, merging our love for technology and creativity to craft an AI-driven platform that is transforming the industry. Established in 2014, we have rapidly grown into a full-service content studio and a leading provider of on-demand video production services. Our team of visionaries is committed to empowering brands with unparalleled video content, setting new standards and trends along the way. Working with top brands like Amazon, Google, and Airbnb, Lemonlight has become one of the largest branded content providers worldwide. Our exceptional achievements include earning 25 prestigious awards, recognition as an Inc. 500 company for five consecutive years, and being named one of BuiltIn’s Best Places to Work in 2023. At Lemonlight, we’re dedicated to leading the charge into the future of video production, demonstrating our commitment to innovation, excellence, and creating impactful content that resonates with audiences everywhere.

The Role: Our Senior Product Designers are the backbone of design excellence and strategic insight, invigorating our Design Team, project teams, and clients with their knowledge and relentless drive for innovation. This role is perfect for those eager to address challenges across various disciplines, solve complex issues, and immerse themselves in the unique dynamics of each project.

 Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the Product Design Lifecycle: Own and drive the entire product design lifecycle of major features across multiple projects, from initial research to prototyping, testing, refining, and final hand-off, employing agile methodologies throughout.
  • Collaborative Partnerships: Partner with product, engineering, success, sales, and marketing teams to understand business objectives and uncover customer insights, ensuring a unified approach to solving user needs.
  • User Research: Conduct user research to identify problems and validate solutions, employing a variety of methods to gather meaningful data and insights.
  • Design Communication: Effectively communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process using wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, and/or high fidelity prototypes.
  • Solution Crafting with Teams: Work closely with developers and engagement managers to create compelling solutions to complex challenges, emphasizing the importance of collaboration and shared achievements.
  • Design Reviews and Sharing: Participate in design reviews and consistently share your work with designers, cross-functional teams, leadership, and the wider company to foster a culture of openness and feedback.
  • System and Library Contributions: Contribute to Lemonlight’s design system and component library, ensuring consistency and efficiency in design across the company.
  • Process and Quality Standards: Help establish and maintain design team processes, advocating for high standards in design and product quality across all projects.
  • UX Research: Conduct comprehensive UX research from diverse sources to inform and guide insightful design decisions.
  • Drive Adoption: Accelerate the adoption of Lemonlight by enhancing user experience, shortening time-to-value, inspiring new customers, and encouraging network effects through strategic design.

Qualifications:

  • 6+ years of UX/product design experience.
  • A degree in HCI, UX, or a related field is preferred.
  • Mastery of product design fundamentals, heuristics, and best practices.
  • Shipped software in fast-paced, technical environments.
  • Experience designing B2B web applications that have shipped
  • Exceptional communication skills for articulating design ideas and decisions.
  • Proficiency in using design and prototyping tools such as Figma.
  • A collaborative spirit, with strong interpersonal skills for product success and client satisfaction.
  • Excellent organizational skills, including adept time and task management.
  • You have experience working in incredibly fast paced and lean startup environments. It’s not just something we say – we truly move faster than most startups

Work Perks:

  • Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life
  • 401K 
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Flexible work hours
  • Hybrid work model
  • Company sponsored events and happy hours
  • Casual dress
  • Office snacks and drinks
  • Some meals provided
  • Work anniversaries and birthday celebrations
  • Employee of the month