Product Designer

The Product Team at Lightcast is laser-focused on delivering the world's best labor market data through our software products. Our current products turn labor market data into clear, actionable insights. Our new products will continue to help our clients make better, faster decisions—driven by data.

As a Product Designer at Lightcast, you will design and deliver elegant product experiences as part of a cross-functional team. You will continuously build on your understanding of the challenges present in higher education, staffing, and workforce, and economic development and the uses of labor market data to address those challenges. You'll talk to our customers to empathize with their needs. You’ll partner with product managers and engineers to design solutions that serve customer needs and deliver value for the company.

Major Responsibilities

• You’ll help shape the future of labor market data analytics -- the product interactions you co-create will impact a variety of audiences.
• You’ll play a key role in evolving our design culture helping to define and drive new design processes.
• You’ll join a collaborative, supportive team that insists on having fun at work.

Education & Experience

• With 7+ years of experience in software product design, you have a portfolio that demonstrates your experience creating sketches, wireframes, user flows, and high-fidelity prototypes that define mobile and desktop interfaces for data-rich products.

• You have advanced proficiency in Figma for designing and prototyping user interfaces, with the ability to create high-fidelity wireframes, interactive prototypes, and design systems.

• You have experience contributing to and maintaining design systems, ensuring consistency and scalability across products and platforms.

• You have experience conducting user research using a variety of research methods, including usability testing and using analytical tools to assess user behavior.

• You bring a broad toolkit for product design (e.g. design thinking, lean UX, design sprints) and you keep up to date with best practices in usability, accessibility, and visual design.

• You’re an excellent communicator with a proven ability to build cross-functional relationships and influence. You clearly communicate design decisions and synthesize and iterate based on feedback.

• You’re comfortable balancing multiple workstreams and building processes where it’s needed. Your ability to see the bigger picture helps you prioritize and work efficiently.

• Your attention to detail means you deliver elegant, consistent designs.

Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with headquarters in Moscow (ID) with offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India. We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities.

Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We seek dynamic

professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.

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