Product Designer I

Job Title: Product Designer I
Location: Pittsburgh, PA (100% Remote)
Job Duration: 6 Months
Hours/Week: 40

Job at a Glance

The client is seeking a Product Designer I to join their Product Design team, which specializes in delivering intuitive, easy-to-use retail technology products across the customer journey. This role is focused on re-designing content-focused UI components, applying atomic design principles in Figma, and contributing to an evolving retail design system.

This is a fully remote, 6-month contract role requiring 2–5 years of experience in product design, ideally in retail or e-commerce settings.

Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities

• Audit and assess existing content-centric UI components and patterns for consistency, accessibility, and system alignment.

• Restructure and recreate these components within the advanced retail design system framework.

• Apply atomic design methodology: define and manage tokens, atoms, molecules, and organisms with semantic variables.

• Elevate aesthetics: produce polished UI deliverables in Figma, aesthetic storytelling, and high fidelity prototypes.

• Collaborate with content teams and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) content fragments or similar platforms.

Team-Based Product Design Work

• Learn and collaborate within a balanced product team including product managers, software engineers, and business stakeholders.

• Participate in structured team formation activities to align purpose, roles, and working agreements.

Discovery and Research

• Conduct research discovery to define problems.

• Apply mixed-methods research practices.

• Gather user feedback and behavioral insights to inform product development.

Experimentation and Development

• Validate design effectiveness pre-launch using experimentation, prototype testing, A/B testing, usability testing, etc.

• Work with the Homefield design system to deliver end-to-end experiences in collaboration with software engineers.

Ongoing Feedback and Improvement

• Monitor usage trends and metrics.

• Seek and activate user feedback to drive iterative improvements.

Qualifications

Required Skills & Experience

• 2–5 years of experience in product design, with a strong focus on retail or e-commerce applications.

• Mastery of Figma including component libraries, variants, prototyping, design tokens, and semantic variables.

• Deep understanding of atomic design systems and scalable UI architecture.

• Excellent visual design skills (typography, layout, grid, color, illustration integration).

• Experience with content systems (AEM, Contentful, content fragments, etc.) is a major plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Portfolio demonstrating system-based redesigns, component libraries, or content module work.

• Experience translating content strategy into UI components.

• Familiarity with accessibility standards, semantic markup, and responsive, tokenized UI.

Additional Attributes

• Foundational understanding of product design and lean product development processes.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Collaboration skills across disciplines such as engineering and product management.

• Customer-centric mindset and problem-solving frameworks.

• Understanding of the software development lifecycle.

Note:
This is a fully remote position.
This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

About the Client

The client is a leading retailer committed to delivering exceptional customer experiences through cutting-edge technology and intuitive design. The Product Design team plays a pivotal role in shaping how customers engage with the brand’s digital ecosystem—from discovery to post-purchase—using human-centered design and scalable systems thinking.

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