Associate Product Designer

Job Description:

Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4,000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce, digital content, advertising, entertainment and communications, bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the company's mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation, optimism, and teamwork.

Cartera Commerce, a Rakuten company who is the pioneer and leader in online cash back shopping and a subsidiary of the global Internet services company, is looking for experienced, talented and passionate individuals to join our growing team. Cartera Commerce's loyalty solutions serves major airlines to top banks, we partner with elite companies who use loyalty programs to reward their customers. We help those customers earn more rewards by shopping with over 1,000 online retailers. If you want to join a dynamic team please apply. Cartera Commerce is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

• Work closely with the Director of Product Design and the Senior Product Designer.
• Partnering closely with product management, project management, engineering, quality assurance, marketing, sales, and account management.
• Translating client needs into compelling and practical workflows and solutions.
• Creating design deliverables from low-fidelity sketches/wireframes to high-fidelity pixel-perfect mockups
• Participating in both internal and external design critiques and reviews.
• Conducting thorough design reviews of finished code to ensure it matches the specs as designed.
• Be an expert in Cartera's products, unique market value, and future goals.
• Prioritizing product design work that supports product strategy and company objectives.
• Work with product management colleagues to Initiate and manage user experience research and testing to inform UX optimization efforts

• 1-5 years of product design experience.
• Strong User Experience skills.
• Solid Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, MS Office, and JIRA knowledge.
• Strong understanding of responsive web design principles, mobile web, and app design (iOS and Android).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present work effectively to internal and external clients.
• A team player who thrives working cross-functionally.
• Ability to effectively design for multiple client brands at once.
• Ability to quickly shift focus or direction when required.

• Experience working in a B2B2C company.
• Experience working with multiple consumer brands.
• Familiarity with affiliate marketing, card-linked offers (CLO), browser extensions, financial services, travel and hospitality, and/or retail industries.
• Familiarity with HTML and CSS
• A bachelor's degree in user-centered design/human-centered design, communication design, graphic design, or a related discipline and/or equivalent experience is preferred.