Product Designer (Complex Automation Solutions) at Deep Consulting Solutions

What We Will Expect From You

• As a Product Designer, your ultimate deliverable will be an effective-by-design solution that will serve the needed business objective, be simple to build and easy to implement. Specifically we will expect from you:
• Functioning and relevant to the business designs focused on practicality and real life implementation;
• Ingenious and minimalist solutions that will be as structured simply as possible, be easy to make, and leverage, wherever possible, ready made solutions;
• Rigorously analyzed and well defined systems with little to no flaws and logical inconsistencies;
• Effective work within the team with proper self-organization and direct communication.
• Depending on your level (which will be assessed during the hiring process), you will be given a matching level of responsibility and matching complexity of projects. After each project completion, your performance will be reassessed and your level will be adjusted, which will be followed with financial rewards if success was accomplished
• Generally, you will be free to decide how you structure your work, so long as you produce effective results that meet our quality standard and lead to successfully completed projects. You will be held accountable for the outcomes of your actions, and not your activities.

 Requirements 

• We have a tight business to run and our jobs require a certain commitment to results and willingness to accept responsibility for the individual actions on the part of our employees. Therefore, we require our candidates to:
• Understand that an activity by itself is useless unless it produces a useful outcome;
• Be ready to self-organize and self-manage and make own decisions about what to do in order to deliver the result;
• Be willing to re-examine approaches and methods when results suggest that current approaches aren't working;
• Be willing to endure hard work to achieve success and not expect instant gratification;
• Approach matters rigorously and analytically;
• Act on the above.

The following skills/experience will be necessary:

• Common Sense and Practically thinking Brain;
• Strong logical reasoning and analytical skills to do your research, articulate ideas in detail, and solve problems;
• Ability to thoroughly analyze and understand the presented business case and the requirements for a software product that must perform business tasks in it;
• Strong experience in functional feature design, understanding of not only the front end and visual parts of the software, but also the back end logic of how systems work and how software is built - note that this job has nothing to do with coding, rather with the functional logic of how applications work;
• Basic understanding of consistent UX and legible UI - note that this is not a UI/UX designer position (UX and UI by themselves make up less than 20% of the job) however when defining front end features, we do expect interfaces to be workable and usable;
• Proactivity to come up with solutions and follow their implementation without supervision;
• Ingenuity in being able to figure out effective solutions with limited available resources and technology;
• Ability to withstand tough pressure and go up steep learning curves. The first project is typically a big learning curve for any hired candidate. Persistence and perseverance is essential.
• Good verbal and written English to communicate clearly with our international team;

The following will help:

• Experience with CRM/ERP systems, programmable telephony, and other niche technologies;
• Experience with large scale software implementations in complex internal business operations;
• Experience with modeling and design tools.

 What We Offer 

High Performance Oriented Management

• The organization is consistently and constantly managed for performance and results. High performers are rewarded. Excuses are not accepted and employees who make them are ejected. Long, unnecessary, bloviating meetings do not exist. Direct, quick and clear feedback is given on everybody's work. The owner personally manages the business and there is little to no middle management present. If you prove yourself to be a reliable and effective employee, you will have all the necessary authority, resources, etc. made available to you in order to deliver your results.

Results Based Compensation

• Successful projects and results you deliver determine your income. There is base pay and project bonus pay. Base pay varies significantly by the Product Designer's level of ability and responsibility (Lead/Associate/Assistant) that the Product Designer takes on projects - this level is reassessed after every project that the Product Designer completes. Projects upon completion are rewarded with a bonus - bonus depends on the the solution's ability to successfully fulfill the necessary business objectives, timeliness of putting together the design, design efficiency for solution buildout, rate of design flaws and errors in the solution, and the amount of management attention needed in the project to correct them. Product Designers who responsibly design effective business solutions to serve our clients in fast time frames and with little corrective action by management are rewarded highest with bonuses and praises.

Practical Business Solution Design

• Our designs are primarily focused on functional business-related features that bring real value to the client, as opposed to just pretty applications or websites. Our Software Team works on real, implementable, No-BS applications only.

Work on Your Own Time

• You can work from anywhere and at a time that best suits your preferences provided that you can deliver results. There isn't a 9-6 or any other hourly schedule in place and there are no time logs made. There also do not exist any time-wasting activities and everybody's time is respected. That being said, the amount of work that you'll need to put in to get results will by all means make this a full time job and require a full time professional commitment from you.

Opportunities to Practically Develop and Enhance Your Expertise

• We work with many complex and niche companies and our approach requires both a deep understanding of specific industries and effective applications of software in various business contexts, which you will develop quickly. Every project will show you real and meaningful results and provide an opportunity to see how your software solutions perform in real business.

Growth Within Our Organization

• Our organization is dynamic, growing, and quite new. Employees who prove themselves to be responsible, effective, and motivated will have the opportunities to take increasing responsibilities as the company develops.

Hiring Process

• Our candidate selection process is designed to objectively assess people's ability to deliver. We do not have long and pointless rounds of interviews filled with hypothetical questions and we do not make decisions solely by looking at somebody's resume. Instead, we follow the below sequence:

Job Application Form.

• Pre-Screening Online Skills Assessment.
• Short Interview.
• Practical Test Assignment.
• Evaluation of the Assignment and Decision on Hire.