DKatalis - Product Designer (Talent Pool)

• Create intuitive, engaging, and consistent product experiences that address user needs and deliver meaningful value. • Design end-to-end user experiences across apps, websites, and other digital touchpoints, translating complex problems into simple, intuitive, and accessible solutions. • Develop user flows, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, and high-quality interfaces that support user goals and business objectives. • Use and continuously improve our design system, contributing reusable components, interaction patterns, and design standards that enable consistency and scalability. • Identify and solve usability issues, interaction friction, inconsistent patterns, and conflicting product experiences across user journeys. • Collaborate with UX Writers to integrate content and interaction design, ensuring language, information, and visual elements work together to guide users effectively. • Explore and validate different design approaches, using creativity, established design principles, and emerging technologies to develop effective solutions. • Consider accessibility, usability, technical feasibility, and diverse user needs throughout the design process to create inclusive experiences. • Design Strategy and Process • Translate user insights, business needs, and technical constraints into effective product solutions, ensuring design decisions are grounded in evidence and aligned with measurable outcomes. • Identify user problems, business opportunities, assumptions, and knowledge gaps to establish clear design objectives before developing solutions. • Work with UX Researchers, UX Writers, data teams, and other stakeholders to understand user needs, evaluate concepts, and validate design decisions. • Translate research findings, behavioral data, and business requirements into actionable design opportunities and practical product solutions. • Collaborate with Product Managers, engineers, and business teams to shape product features, define requirements, explore trade-offs, and align on intended outcomes. • Take ownership of design problems from discovery through delivery, ensuring solutions address underlying user needs rather than simply fulfilling predefined requirements. • Clearly articulate design rationale, trade-offs, and recommendations through compelling narratives that help stakeholders understand the problem, proposed solution, and expected impact. • Minimum 8 years of experience in product design, UI/UX design, or a related field working on digital products. Fintech or banking experience is a plus. • A strong portfolio showcasing end-to-end product design, user-centered problem-solving, visual excellence, interaction design, and cross-platform experiences. • Proven ability to translate user research, business requirements, and complex problems into practical, intuitive, and effective product solutions. • Strong understanding of interaction design, information architecture, usability principles, visual design, accessibility, and design systems. • Experience collaborating with researchers, writers, product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders throughout the product development lifecycle. • Ability to use research insights, product data, and usability findings to inform design decisions, evaluate solutions, and identify opportunities for improvement. • Excellent communication, storytelling, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to explain design rationale and project context to audiences unfamiliar with the work. • Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, challenge assumptions, and balance user needs with business and technical constraints. • Experience providing constructive feedback, mentoring other designers, and contributing to design standards and team practices. • A proactive, collaborative mindset with the ability to take ownership, influence decisions, and continuously improve both design quality and product outcomes.