Senior Product Designer

Company Overview

Farmers Business Network®* (*FBN®) is on a mission to power the prosperity of family farmers and rural communities around the world, transforming how the world farms with an integrated, technology-enabled agricultural platform.

We offer high ROI farm inputs, fintech and sustainability products and services powered by network data, and farm-tested insights from our global farmer community. Our platform helps FBN® members make confident decisions to ensure the economic viability of their farms, while also empowering them to be a part of the solution as the global community confronts its most pressing issues: providing food security for a growing population, transitioning to more sustainable agriculture, and responding to climate change.

We are a dynamic, innovative, and mission-driven AgTech company that offers competitive compensation and benefits as well as boundless career mobility. We are backed by top investors, including Fidelity, ADM, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, DBL Partners, T Rowe Price and Temasek. We have been featured in these articles by the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, and were also named "One of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World" by Fast Company Magazine.

The Role

As a Senior Product Designer at FBN, your main focus will be to create intuitive product experiences for new and existing features across the FBN platform. You will be working directly with our farmer members to understand their needs and motivations in order to develop creative design solutions to address these needs. Our efforts directly affect the work and lives of those within our member network so there’s no shortage of impactful projects at FBN.

At FBN, the pace is fast with an expectation that designers own multiple projects at once, while efficiently managing priorities between various stages of the design process. In a given week, you may be working through interaction flows on a new project, thinking through ways to improve the design of an existing feature, and getting feedback on a prototype.

Role

• Apply strategic thinking to design and deliver innovative end-to-end user experiences that optimize among user needs, business goals, and technological realities across web & mobile platforms
• Create user interface design, architecture and functionality according to usability best-practices, standards-compliant design and most importantly, user-tested data.
• Come up with the best creative and innovative solutions achieved within timeline and scope.
• Responsible for seeing the idea from the inception to release.
• Contribute to the development of the creative team's culture and quality standards.
• Present and effectively communicate the conceptual vision and foster ideas to help spread storytelling techniques to inspire the team.
• Effectively collaborate with and influence your project partners and the product organization made up of other designers, content strategists, product managers, engineers, marketers, data scientists, and researchers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in interaction design, product design, or a related field
• Deep knowledge of design principles and methods
• Curiosity and commitment to testing new ideas and innovating to drive business results
• Expertise leading, creating, and evangelizing experience strategies, principles, and ideal states
• Expert communicator, presenter, influencer, and negotiator with designers and non-designers alike
• Expertise executing ideas and concepts through sketching, storyboarding, wireframing, and prototyping
• Bachelor’s degree in Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction Design, or other relevant field; Master’s preferred
• Mastery of design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite.
• A dazzling online portfolio demonstrating your strong craft, decisions, and collaborative process
• Interest and willingness to participate in farm visits in the midwest to better engage with and understand our farmer members. No prior experience in agriculture is needed.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Stock Options

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

Compensation and title for this position may be adjusted to suit your experience and qualifications.

Farmers Business Network, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and participates in U.S. Citizenship and Immigration’s E-Verify program. Diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.

*The following represents FBN's reasonable estimate of the US national average base salary range of possible compensation for this role based on market data and placement of internal employees: $140,000 - $156,000. *

This salary range may vary based on geography and variations in cost of labor. Beyond the above or adjusted to market salary range, FBN also offers all full-time employees competitive equity compensation, health and wellness benefits, and various perks.

FBN is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. FBN considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. ******We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here.****** FBN is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email fill out this form. #LI-REMOTE