Karbon

Senior Product Designer

To change the way accounting firms work.

  • Product Management and Design

  • Full-time

  • Office | Melbourne, VIC, Australia

  • Visa sponsorship · No

  • Mid Level · A role for someone with some well-developed knowledge and skills they can bring to the role and team. Typically within 2-5 years of experience.

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Why Karbon

Karbon is the collaborative practice management platform for accounting firms. It brings your team, clients, systems, and data together in one place, significantly improving visibility, efficiency, and connectivity no matter where your people are located.

About the role

About this role This is a senior role that will work closely with the Design, Product Management, and Engineering teams to research, understand user needs and explore design solutions to push the Karbon product to be the global leader in practice management. You'll drive projects big and small, assess problems, take ownership, find solutions, and see things through to delivery with autonomy. You'll communicate clearly with your colleagues and lend a helping hand when needed. This is an office-based role at our new office on Pitt Street. Some of your main responsibilities will include:

  • Design leadership — working alongside Product Managers and Tech Leads to deliver successful solutions
  • Applying your design expertise and experience to all aspects of the product design process
  • Providing design solutions that solve customer and business needs while maintaining a high-quality, premium customer experience across the product
  • Developing user stories, prototypes, design mockups, and detailed specs to communicate the design solution to the team
  • Providing constructive, detailed feedback to your sprint team
  • Being a thoughtful and passionate voice for design
  • Mentoring less experienced colleagues
  • Being the guardian of the brand experience in product — simplicity, usability, and quality should always be a part of your decision-making process
  • Discussing and debating design concepts robustly to find the best possible solutions
  • Constantly thinking about new ways to improve the efficiency of your design process while maintaining high design standards

About You Candidates with the following qualifications and experience are encouraged to apply:

  • Extensive professional experience designing high-quality digital products
  • Top-tier UX, layout, and visual design skills — this team is responsible for end-to-end product design from concept to go-to-market, so you'll need the full suite of skills to make it happen
  • Maturity to discuss ideas critically, contribute to strategic decisions, and always be open to adopting someone else's idea if it's better than your own
  • A fascination with experimentation, testing, and analytics — if a new design doesn't achieve its aim better than the last one, then what was the point?
  • Confident writer of short-form content — words are design too
  • Based in Sydney and ideally able to join the office 4 days/week

  Why work at Karbon?

  • Gain global experience across the USA, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Canada and the Philippines
  • 4 weeks annual leave plus 5 extra "Karbon Days" off a year
  • Flexible working environment
  • Work with (and learn from) an experienced, high-performing team
  • Be part of a fast-growing company that firmly believes in promoting high performers from within
  • A collaborative, team-oriented culture that embraces diversity, invests in development, and provides consistent feedback
  • Generous parental leave

What you'll be responsible for

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    Project Coordination

    Coordinate people and processes to ensure the effective and timely running of a project

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    Leading of UX and UI Design

    Lead the design of product features underpinned by UX and UI Design principles to create desired user-centred experiences

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    Customer Journey Insight Development

    Understand a brand’s customers and their journey throughout touch points and processes, to drive strategy for positive customer experience

Skills you'll need

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    Collaboration

    Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals

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    Flexibility

    Copes with changes and ambiguity in varying circumstances and can adapt behaviour effectively

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    Critical thinking

    Identifies and synthesizes patterns and trends amongst various sources of information to reach a meaningful conclusion, perspective or insight

Meet the team

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Karbon