Product Designer, WhatsApp
Remote, US
Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - we're just getting started.
Design at Meta is pioneering technologies to bring people closer together, and our teams share in the responsibility of doing it at global scale. Our teams design and build Meta technologies—Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Workplace, Novi, Portal and Meta Quest—for billions of people around the world. WhatsApp is a fast, simple and reliable way to talk to anyone in the world. More than 2 billion people in over 180 countries use WhatsApp to stay in touch with friends and family, anytime and anywhere. WhatsApp is not only free but also available on multiple mobile devices and in low connectivity areas — making it accessible and reliable wherever you are. It's a simple and secure way to share your favorite moments, send important information or catch up with a friend. WhatsApp helps people connect and share no matter where they are in the world. As a Product Designer, you will be involved in every aspect of the product development process, from brainstorming the next product innovation to tweaking pixels right before launch. You will use your start-up mindset and your full range of product design, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping skills to produce elegantly simple designs. You'll be expected to push the boundaries of what's possible in a mobile app, while sharing in our healthy obsession for quality. Product Designers help creatively solve big, complicated, real-world problems. We utilize a full range of product design skills to contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive teams. Join a diverse group of thinkers and do some of the most meaningful work of your career. This posting represents different full-time roles across the WhatsApp organization.
Responsibilities
Lead and deliver design projects of large and (or) ambiguous scope
Play a critical role in helping set the goals and product direction for the team
Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into something useful and valuable for our 2 billion plus users
Design flows and experiences that simplify and distill down complex actions into usable interfaces
Design new experiences or layouts that evolve and define visual systems
Contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of WhatsApp products
Give and solicit feedback from designers and a broader product team in order to continually raise our bar for quality, while also taking on mentorship
Lead a partnership with product managers, engineers, researchers and content strategists to oversee the user experience of a product from conception until launch
Minimum Qualification
6+ years of experience building, shipping and leading applications or software that are large and/or ambiguous in scope that encompass an end-to-end experience across a variety of platforms
6+ years of interaction design experience with willingness to define how an experience should behave based on understanding people's needs, plus consideration of how this innovation will scale. Use appropriate prototyping tools to demonstrate how a particular flow or interaction will work
6+ years of visual design experience with proficiency in typography, desktop/mobile UI, color, layout, iconography and aesthetic sense and how these elements impact product function
6+ years of driving the vision of a successful product playing a critical role in setting goals and direction while making decisions that reach a common goal based on the impact to people and the company
Willingness to represent work to a broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succinctly articulating the goals and concepts
Preferred Qualification
Experience in showcasing your end-to-end design process across multiple projects, that include interaction and visual design artifacts, multiple iterations, and high-fidelity prototypes
Experience in connecting your work with other related initiatives across the company while driving collaboration
Examples of leadership in non-product dimensions that have made a team stronger and positively impacted the work environment
Experience in prototyping and motion design
Familiarity with WhatsApp product, the messaging space and designing for global audiences
Experience in adapting your designs across platforms and form factors, and understanding of the opportunities and limitations involved
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