Product Designer- W2 Contract Position - Freelance

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• EXPERIENCE: 3-5 years
• SALARY RANGE: $70 – $85 /hr
• BRAINTRUST JOB ID: 8024
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40hr/week - Short term
• LOCATION: Remote - PDT | Full day overlap
• JOB TYPE: Freelance Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)

THE OPPORTUNITY
Requirements
As a product designer on Platform Design, you will partner closely with engineering teams and TPMs to design internal developer tools and workflows, whether from scratch or improvements to existing experiences. You will play a key role in providing design expertise and evangelizing UX principles to technical teams, who will benefit from your user-centered approach as a means to boost developer satisfaction and productivity. Improving the experience of Pinterest’s developers benefits the entire ecosystem of Pinterest users.
What you'll do:

• Design and enhance internal developer tools and workflows that typically span multiple surfaces
• Employ end-to-end design process, collaborating with engineers and PMs/TPMs
• Utilize a holistic systems mindset and use design systems to ensure proper standards and quality
• Present your work at the Platform Design Team’s weekly review for design feedback
• Run light user research that may involve surveys or interviews (with the help of a playbook)
• Regularly engage with engineering customers to understand their needs and pain points and gather feedback from them to iterate and measure success

What You’ll Be Working On
What we’re looking for:

• An interest in or motivation by working on complex challenges
• Experience using Figma and staying up-to-date on the latest features preferred
• Ability to share work early and often, and iterate in tight cycles based on data, and input from users and stakeholders
• Curiosity, user empathy, strong communication and collaboration skills, and a growth mindset
• Familiarity with running user research and service design methodologies
• 2+ years of industry experience designing digital products especially for web—experience on internal tools, developer tools, or enterprise preferred
• A basic understanding of software development concepts and workflows

Apply Now!
C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.
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