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The Groupon product designer collaborates with other dedicated product designers, product managers, and engineers to develop innovative products for innovation-loving users. The position is responsible for user-experience design, visual design, and HTML and CSS for both new web products and feature enhancements of existing products. A Groupon product designer has clear product vision and is constantly innovating in the space.

Responsibilities:

• Quickly assess and execute creative solutions to challenging design problems
• Develop, maintain, and implement new features from end-to-end
• Incorporate research findings into your designs
• Contribute ideas to improve existing products, both in and outside personal expertise
• Collaborate with fellow designers and work remotely with offsite team members
• Work closely with product managers and engineers to complete projects

Requirements:

First and foremost, applicants should be awesome, user-centered design thinkers who can design and deliver an end-to-end experience, from vision to production. Groupon is seeking generalists who are smart, flexible, and can move between different design projects with a minimum of fuss.

• Strong portfolio featuring examples of product, interaction, and visual design work
• Ability to think about high-level product vision and contribute a vision of a fantastic user experience
• A strong, clean visual design sense, valuing usability, simplicity, and consistency (cats optional)
• Great design communication skills; able to tell the story of a design from end to end
• Solid grounding in fundamentals of HCI, human cognition, and user-centered design principles and practices
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the technologies that you’re designing for
• Ability to follow interface guidelines, style guides, and best practices when designing for new platforms, and an ability to intelligently challenge and improve them when necessary
• Proven experience designing for the modern, highly interactive web
• Past experience working on grids, both designing and implementing
• Comfort working in fast-moving, agile development environments
• A link to personal website or web portfolio. Applicants without a web presence will not be considered. Not kidding.

Preferred, but not required:

• Startup experience
• Experience with e-commerce and local business
• Experience working with Ruby on Rails and jQuery
• Familiarity with both qualitative and quantitative testing methodologies: contextual inquiries, usability studies, eyetracking, A/B testing, log analysis, and other forms of data-driven design
• Experience working with international design departments and integrating design guidelines across international platforms
• Experience with versioning, SVN, or Git (preferably Git)
• Healthy sense of humor