Lead Product Designer
Description Lead Product Designer – Remote Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions to many of the world’s top-recognized brands and companies, is actively seeking a Lead Product Designer to join our People Assurance team Remotely. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow a versatile career in Product Design. Intertek's People Assurance teams empower your workforce to identify and close operational gaps and mitigate risk by assuring smart actions across your organization. Intertek Alchemy provides frontline worker training solutions for processors, manufacturers, packagers, and distributors of all sizes. Intertek Catalyst inspires and engages workforces with highly creative, custom-branded, asset protection communication programs tailor-made strategic solutions designed to leverage our clients' company brand, values, and objectives to optimize the culture of their people. Intertek Wisetail provides a custom branded training and communication platform built to engage today’s workforce with a complete learning management system, giving customers the tools to grow their passionate workforce. Intertek is continually innovating and evolving to reduce risk for consumers, brands and organizations in every sector and industry around the world. We go beyond Testing, Inspection and Certification of products: we are a Total Quality Assurance Provider to industries worldwide. Our Purpose: Bringing quality, safety, and sustainability to life. What are we looking for? The Lead Product Designer is responsible for working closely with the Head of Design, Product, Engineering and other designers, you will design for frontline employees, managers and administrators. Initial priorities may include Wisetail coverage, with ongoing ownership transitioning to the Senior UX Designer through an agreed handoff. Convergence is the long-term focus of this role. - Reports to: Head of Design - Location: Remote, United States - Schedule: Monday-Friday, core business hours Shift/Schedule Monday- Friday; core business hours. This is a remote position; however, applicants must reside in and be able to legally work in the United States. This position is not eligible for work authorization sponsorship now or in the future. Salary & Benefits Information The salary range for this position is $120,000-$160,000. Individual compensation packages are based on a variety of factors unique to each candidate including skill set, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons. In addition to competitive compensation packages, when working with Intertek you can expect benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k) with company match, generous vacation / sick time (PTO), tuition reimbursement and more. What you’ll do: - Lead the design direction for agreed Convergence product areas. - Explore alternatives, make clear recommendations and connect customer needs, business priorities and technical constraints to the experience. - Create polished interfaces and intuitive interactions with strong hierarchy, typography, layout and attention to detail. - Make complex learning and administration tools feel coherent and easy to use. - Use sketches, wireframes and interactive prototypes to explore ideas, explain behavior and test decisions. - Carry promising concepts through to detailed designs that engineers can implement. - Apply strong UX thinking to journeys, navigation and task flows. - Resolve permissions, dependencies and relevant loading, empty, error and recovery states, partnering with UX and research colleagues for deeper investigation. - Build new alongside existing design systems to develop reusable components and interaction patterns. - Help establish a consistent, accessible experience across connected products and responsive interfaces. - Work with Product and research partners to understand customer workflows and test important assumptions. - Use usability findings and product evidence to improve designs throughout delivery. - Partner closely with engineers to work within the existing platform and integration constraints. - Document behavior, resolve implementation questions and review the built experience for usability, accessibility and visual quality. - Lead constructive design reviews and mentor other designers through hands-on feedback. - Coordinate with Wisetail, Alchemy and contractor designers to keep ownership, priorities and shared patterns clear. Minimum Requirements & Qualifications: - 7+ years of professional experience designing digital products or software experiences, including web or mobile applications with multi-step user journeys such as account management, purchasing or administrative tasks. - A bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction, visual communication or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. - Experience leading