Urbn Product Designer

Role Summary

URBN is looking for an empathetic, human-centered Product Designer to join URBN's Digital Product team; a centralized group, tightly aligned with URBN brands and the IT organization, specializing in user experience, product management, testing & analysis, digital strategy, and program management. The Product Designer will be responsible for designing class-leading solutions for digital products, consisting of consumer-facing and enterprise web and native mobile applications.

Role Responsibilities

• Design - define the information architecture, usability requirements, interaction patterns, and visual requirements, ensuring design solutions are useful, usable, consistent, and engaging

• Ideate - lead collaborative brainstorming exercises, workshops, and a variety of hands-on, interactive meetings

• Simplify - develop simple and elegant solutions to complex business and user problems

• Strategize - work closely with product management to define product strategy

• Align - collaborate across the enterprise to ensure satisfaction of business, user, technical and brand objectives

• Research - leverage user research and analytics data to inform design decisions

• Facilitate development - ensure seamless integration of the design process with the Agile product development lifecycle; see requirements through to release

• Measure - help establish metrics and continuously measure product design effectiveness to inform future iterations and improvements

• Inspire, educate, and collaborate - inspire others, evangelize the UX process and strategy, and foster collaboration and alignment of stakeholders across the enterprise

Role Qualifications

• Experience designing responsive websites and native mobile applications

• Foundational understanding of web and mobile app technologies

• Experience producing user workflows, wireframes, and prototypes; and familiarity with the tools associated with those skills

• Ability to lead collaborative stakeholder workshop, design critiques, and design review meetings

• Proven ability to clearly communicate ideas and design rationale to stakeholders

• Detail oriented, highly organized, and ability to easily manage multiple ongoing projects

• Formalized education in product/interaction design, usability engineering, human factors, human computer interaction, applied cognitive psychology, or related field

• Experience working in e-commerce or digital retail products, technologies, and platforms

• Experience working in an Agile development process, within across-functional team consisting of product designers, product managers, and engineers

• Proven ability to contribute to design strategy, product roadmap, and product requirements specifications

• Experience creating and working with design systems

• Experience conducting user research

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The Perks

URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees. Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more! For additional information visit www.urbn.com/work-with-us/benefits

EEO Statement

Urban Outfitters, Inc. celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression), religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. We believe strongly in fostering a safe, fair and respectful work environment. To ensure compliance with our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, we offer anti-harassment training to managers and employees.