Senior Product Designer

Seequent builds world-leading subsurface software, helping create a better understanding of the earth to ensure a better world for all.
We are constantly evolving at the forefront of technology to transform how geo-professionals work, eliminating barriers to understanding by connecting software, teams, and the tools they need.

Every day, our customers in over 100 countries work to develop mineral resources more sustainably, design and build better infrastructure, protect the environment, source renewable energy, and help resolve historical challenges such as groundwater contamination and ageing infrastructure.

Our integrated earth modelling, geo-data management, and team collaboration software enables them to see a more complete picture of the earth: because with more understanding comes better decisions - for people and the planet.

Headquartered in New Zealand with global reach, Seequent is the specialist subsurface software company within Bentley Systems. Together, we are helping build a more resilient world. We're a high growth, people-centric success story.

The Role

As a Senior Product Designer, you will form an integral part of a team that is directly connected to our customers, working in partnership with Product Managers and Engineers to design experiences into our products that our customers will love. You will lead in the design of innovative and impactful products, taking ownership of the design process from ideation to execution. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product vision and strategy, ensuring that design solutions meet both user needs and business goals. Your experience and expertise will be critical in mentoring junior designers and shaping the overall design culture within the organization.

Duties and responsibilities:

Customer Engagement

• Cultivate a proficient level of understanding of the needs of our customers and the behavior of our users.
• In partnership with Product Managers, engage in user research to develop user personas and models of user behavior.
• In partnership with Product Managers, engage in user experience testing to validate design concepts.
• Gain a proficient understanding of the policies, legislative and regulatory constraints the customer operates within and contribute to the compliance of product designs within these constraints.

Product Design

• Plan and drive user experience design activities, providing expert advice and guidance to support the adoption of agreed approaches.
• Determine the approaches to be used to design user experiences.
• Use iterative approaches to incorporate user feedback or evaluation rapidly into designs.
• Integrate required visual design and branding into the user experience design activities.
• Plan and drive visual design activities, displaying a mastery of color theory, typography and layout principles, to create a coherent and attractive design aesthetic.
• Plan and drive interaction designs, displaying a mastery of interaction design principles that result in fluid and natural user flows, ensuring that users can achieve their goals with efficiency and satisfaction.
• Plan and drive the creation of wireframes and mock-ups. Display a mastery of design tools such as Figma.
• Manage user experience evaluation of systems, products, services or devices.
• Assure that the security, usability and accessibility requirements have been met and that required practices have been followed.
• Advise on what to evaluate, the type of evaluation to use and the extent of user involvement required.
• Work iteratively with design teams to ensure that feedback from the evaluation is understood and acted upon by designers and developers. Advise on the achievement of required usability and accessibility levels of specific designs or prototypes. Prioritize input for future user research.
• Champion user-centered design and secure organizational commitment to the significant involvement of users in research.
• Develop organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for user research.
• Develop or source organizational resources and capabilities to facilitate the adoption and exploitation of user research.
• Support the availability of user research, product usage, and customer success data to the product design team. Remove impediments to data access, data interpretation, and cross-functional collaboration around data. Promote the adoption of best practices and educate on industry trends regarding customer intimacy through data. Build inter-departmental relationships to support collaboration around customer data.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Product Design in a related field is essential.
• Minimum 7 years' experience working in a Product Design team within a commercial software product company.
• Has proficient knowledge of the product and domain which is continuously growing through deliberate effort. Has proficient knowledge of the product fit into solutions for the Segments and Industries served by the product.
• Has established high-trust cross-functional relationships with colleagues in product management, engineering and peers in the product design team.
• Work includes a broad range of complex technical or professional activities, in a variety of contexts. Investigates, defines and resolves complex issues. Applies, facilitates and develops creative thinking concepts or finds innovative ways to approach a deliverable.
• Communicates fluently, orally and in writing, and can present complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences when engaging with colleagues, users/customers, suppliers and partners.
• Selects appropriately from, and assesses the impact of change to applicable standards, methods, tools, applications and processes relevant to own specialism.
• Demonstrates an awareness of risk and takes an analytical approach to work.
• Contributes specialist expertise to requirements definition in support of proposals. Share knowledge and experience in own specialism to help others.
• Security, privacy and ethics — fully understand the importance and application to own work and the operation of the organization. Engages or works with specialists as necessary.

Research shows that some individuals, particularly women and underrepresented groups, are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single criterion. If you don't think your experience perfectly aligns, or you don't tick all the boxes, please don't rule yourself out! Seequent are committed to hiring a diverse team and encourage individuals of all background and abilities to apply.

Why you will enjoy working with us..

You will be joining a highly skilled, highly productive team of technical experts who are passionate about what we do. We are a friendly, intelligent, and supportive bunch and are looking forward to you bringing your expertise to the team. Our wider team is geographically diverse and from multi-disciplines, so you will have opportunity to work with colleagues from across the globe.

Inclusion + Diversity

In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience.
If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs. Please provide details in your cover letter of any accommodations needed.

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