Senior Digital Product Designer (Freelancer)

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Within the FIFA Communications Digital Product team, your role will be mainly focused on 3 key aspects:

• Developing the product designs for FIFAs digital communication products and platforms, from strategic to execution level. Share product ownership with the Product Owner (PO) and Product Manager (PM).
  • On the execution level, responsible for the design process end-to-end, from problem understanding to final visual QA with the development team and metrics analysis once in production.
  • On the strategic level, to contribute to the product vision on a daily basis together with the PO, PM, stakeholders and the team, influencing the roadmap and the direction of the product towards a first class experience.
• Continuously improving the digital product design process, making sure that value-added to our users is maximised at any release;
• Being on the forefront on product designs and able to share knowledge internally across FIFA and our partners to increase the level of design knowledge in the whole product delivery team.

We need a hands-on Senior Digital Product Designer, experienced working embedded within a scrum setup, working in product teams with developers and a PO. A product designer able to co-own the product that proactively pushes for improvements based on solid arguments and rationale.

Purpose

• Understand the product, the business and the users. Create concepts, wireframes, prototypes, UI, analyse data, support on user research and experimentation.
• Work closely with our Product Owner, Product Manager and other internal stakeholders, especially the Brand team, to make sure we deliver the right product.
• Improve the current product design processes and techniques
• Adapt FIFAs brand guidelines and set-up standards, guidelines, patterns in regards to digital products to be eventually reused across different projects
• Have a close look at the industry best practices and latest trends, and apply them whenever it makes sense
• Enrich and enlarge our current user knowledge base with proposed new experiments or ad-hoc user research
• Contribute to the growth of the Design knowledge and awareness within FIFA using key soft skills of a UX designer: communication, collaboration, empathy
• Contribute to the success metrics definition for the product

Requirements

• Solid and proven UX knowledge
• Experience in designing creative and innovative concepts in a complex framework with multiple constraining factors. We are looking for someone creative and with a keen eye for detail, with a solid knowledge on design principles and theory. Evidence based design is a must. You will be expected to be innovative but still respect brand and design guidelines.
• Proven experience in sports industry is a plus
• Being proactive, having great communication skills and with experience working on remote teams are a must
• You have at least 5 years of experience designing at the sports industry, consumer-focused products or media companies. You should have experience in a multi-brand ecosystem of sites/apps, working closely with developers and talking the same language.
• Experience working as a product designer in an agile environment, i.e: inside scrum teams.

Education

• Must-have formal design education or proven equivalent

Languages

• English / Proficient

Travel

• This is a remote job, with occasional trips if any provided the Covid-19 situation gets better. You’ll be working remotely with product owners and developers in an agile environment.

Additional requirements

• knowledge and mastery on design & prototyping tools (Figma ideally)
• knowledge and mastery of web analytics tools
• experience defining and documenting visual and business logic
• experience on A/B testing tools
• experience in user research & user testing tools

Initial contract: 6 months (renewable to 1 year)