Product Designer, Creatives

About IPG Mediabrands

IPG Mediabrands is the media and marketing solutions division of Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG). IPG Mediabrands manages over $47 billion in marketing investment globally on behalf of its clients across its full-service agency networks UM, Initiative and Mediahub and through its award-winning specialty business units Healix, Kinesso, MAGNA, Mediabrands Content Studio, Orion Holdings, Rapport, and the IPG Media Lab. IPG Mediabrands clients include many of the world’s most recognizable and iconic brands from a broad portfolio of industry sectors including automotive, personal finance, consumer product goods (CPG), pharma, health and wellness, entertainment, financial services, energy, toys and gaming, direct to consumer and e-commerce, retail, hospitality, food and beverage, fashion and beauty. The company employs more than 18,000 diverse marketing communication professionals in more than 130 countries. Learn more at www.ipgmediabrands.com.

Role Overview

Our team sits at the forefront of organizational innovations and design initiatives, which makes this role a great opportunity for anyone excited about the intersection of UX, UI, experience and business strategy across a suite of impactful products. You will report into your product group’s Senior Product Designer supporting the team across all product design needs. You will also help create, maintain, and evolve products throughout the product life cycle. You will be researching, wireframing, prototyping, and handing off designs, involved in every step of the design process.

Key Responsibilities

• Work across all phases of the design process
• Conduct user research across projects, including user interviews, surveys and testing
• Design low-fidelity wireframes informed by user research, uncovering happy paths and reducing friction in user journeys
• Design high-fidelity designs aligned with our product design system
• Collaborate across designers, product leads, strategists, creative technologists, developers, product managers, QA, producers and marketers
• Create development-ready assets for launch
• Craft functional specification documentation for our development teams
• Proactively problem solve for product goals and streamlining workflows impactfully
• Stay curious about creative trends and innovations
• Adapt to last-minute asks, changing timelines, and handling multiple projects
• Be eager to learn new skillsets and try new ways of thinking
• Comfortably work from an existing design system while revising and advancing assets for product use cases

Technical Competencies

• Advanced mastery of UX Research and UI Design: Lead and facilitate workshops and project plans to conduct, synthesize and quantify research.
• Design Systems experience: Fluency with working with design systems and comfortable revising and adding components based on product needs.
• Product & Engineering collaboration: Can take the lead and own end-to-end production of projects to ship features and/or implement a new product working with product and engineering teams.
• Design iteration: Iterate on designs based on information provided by end-users and actively proactively seek feedback from stakeholders.
• Competency in Figma and interaction design tools: Able to design at appropriate levels of fidelity to test workflows with users and edge cases with product and engineering, as well as understanding of leveraging AI tools that integrate well with the design process to improve quality, alignment and efficiency.