Staff Product Designer

Get to Know Us:
It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing

Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.

Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.

Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine

Make Your Mark:
The Staff Product Designer should be a UX evangelist and is responsible for overseeing various projects across multiple products. This role will collaborate and align with product and engineering partners. This role contributes to the standardization of process and best practices within the design team and between cross-functional teams. This role participates in planning, goal, and success metrics creation in the design team as well as helping the team to reach the next level.

The Product Design team at BlackLine drives product design and UX strategy across BlackLine’s entire suite of solutions and support the key business objectives of the company. You will be involved in complex challenges at the system level; you will fuse your passion for enhancing user experience and productivity to drive customer success via B2B SaaS.

The Staff Product Designer should be a UX evangelist and is responsible for overseeing various projects across multiple products. This role will collaborate and align with product and engineering partners. This role contributes to the standardization of process and best practices within the design team and between cross-functional teams. This role participates in planning, goal, and success metrics creation in the design team as well as helping the team to reach the next level. They must be fluent in UX research, workshop facilitation, usability testing, lean UX, principles of design and UX best practices with superb hands-on skills.

You'll Get To:

- Lead design efforts across multiple engagements and be the design partner for assigned product vertical(s).
- Understand BlackLine product ecosystem and build and support a cohesive user experience across various products.
- Promote the value of design thinking.
- Emphasize and advocate users.
- Contribute to design strategy, vision and roadmap
- Scope, estimate, and plan design efforts for the assigned vertical(s).
- Estimate and plan tasks and projects and manage a backlog and roadmap for assigned projects.
- Collaborate and communicate with other partners with transparency for clear alignment.
- Have expert knowledge in user research and set up a research/testing cadence and best practices.
- Plan and facilitate workshops with various members within and outside the organization.
- Groom BlackLine user personas and critical user journeys.
- Support BlackLine Design System maintenance.
- Deliver hands-on design execution from conceptualization to the final product, including CJM, sketches, user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes.
- Help build a stronger design team by process and best practices optimization.
- Support a culture of learning and mentor junior designers.
- Perform other duties as assigned.

What You'll Bring:

- Proficiency in user research, user needs evaluation, metrics and measurements, IA, interaction design, prototyping, visual design, stakeholder management, design strategy and planning, and workshop facilitation.
- Expert knowledge of design processes and methodology
- Ability to lead lean UX practice (rapid discovery, prototyping, testing and iteration).
- Leadership skills to inspire and mentor others.
- Experience working with large data sets/volumes of information.
- Knowledge of responsive design, native iOS and Android design.
- Fluency in Figma.
- Excellent written, verbal and visual communication skills to articulate concepts, feedback and rationale and promote Design led initiatives.
- Kind, assertive, positive, easy to with, team player with strong work ethics.
- Strong design portfolio to demonstrate above qualifications.
- Formal portfolio presentation is required during interview**.**

We’re Even More Excited If You Have:

- Enterprise SaaS experience
- Experience with FinTech products
- Experience with HTML/CSS and JS

Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:

- A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finan