Junior Product Designer - Remote

Overview

As a Junior Product Designer at Mechanical Orchard, you'll play a key role in helping your team define, prioritize, and deliver value to customers. This role is a great opportunity to deepen your skills across product, UX, and engineering.

In Short

• Conduct user research in collaboration with the team
• Design user experiences and user interfaces for highly technical products
• Understand and balance tradeoffs between business needs, user needs, and technical limitations
• Balance creating near-term design deliverables with long-term feature research
• Maintain tight feedback loops within the project team and with stakeholders
• Collaborate with the product team to design solutions and features
• Help define product direction for projects that transform and modernize critical legacy systems
• Attend agile team ceremonies such as daily standup, weekly planning, and weekly retrospectives
• Partner with senior team members to deliver effective designs and ensure alignment on priorities

Requirements

• Have a Bachelor's, or Master's in Design, Engineering or a related field
• Strategic thinking, technical skills, UX knowledge, attention to detail
• Ability to learn new software and technologies quickly
• 1 to 4 years of Product Design experience through previous internships or co-op programs, work experience or bootcamps
• Some experience contributing to the full product development lifecycle
• Previous experience in software and web development
• Strong communication and collaboration skills as well as empathy are essential for working closely with the development team, customers, and others at Mechanical Orchard.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with a cutting-edge Generative AI platform
• Collaborative and supportive team environment
• Focus on continuous improvement and learning
• Chance to impact the modernization of critical business applications
• Work within a company that values kindness and doing the right thing