Product Designer

About Samsung Food

At Samsung Food, we’re trying to build a more sustainable future by inspiring home cooks everywhere to tackle holistic health through nutrition and reduce food waste. We’re a fully-owned, independently-operated Samsung subsidiary (acquired in 2019) primed to grow on top of Samsung’s global resources and hardware ecosystem. We are passionate about what we build and who we build for within one of the world’s largest corporations to bring our highly-rated native app experiences to tens of millions of TVs, wearables, and kitchen appliances in the years to come.

Samsung Food has a 4.8 star rating on both the iOS and Android store, was included in Google Play’s Best of 2020 Everyday Essentials list, has been featured on the Apple app store numerous times, and was nominated for a 2021 Webby Award. 

We’re a remote-first, globally distributed team of 100+ people based across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and everywhere in between. We’ve been fully distributed since 2016 and pioneered many of the practices which are commonplace in remote workplaces today.

Learn more about how we build a team who works together. 

About the role

As a Product Designer, you’ll join a dynamic team working to build a best in class global food platform across Samsung.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for driving user-centered design processes and delivering high-quality UX solutions. You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, design, research, and QA to shape Samsung food platform experiences. You will lead and participate in various UX initiatives (such as strategy, workshops, research) to drive alignment across our global team and deliver innovative and delightful user experiences.

This is a full-time remote contractor role.

Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Drive research and analysis on product requirements, functionalities, markets, trends, users, etc.
• Craft elegant and intuitive user experience solutions, define information architecture, and design interaction workflows that deliver meaningful values to users and achieve business objectives.
• Manage and oversee delivery of UX solutions to ensure a high-quality final product within the given timelines and resources.
• Collaborate in evaluative research and experiments to drive iterative improvement to user experience, such as rapid prototyping and user testing.
• Lead and participate in collaborative design processes with cross-functional teams including design reviews, workshops, sprints, brainstorming, etc.

Qualifications

What we’re looking for:

• A passion for solving product problems while balancing all facets of user experience (strategy and research, information architecture, interaction design).
• A deep understanding of the end-to-end iterative design process and experience driving user-centered design processes within a cross-functional team.
• Ability to solve complicated and ambiguous challenges. You can analyze situations or data to determine methods to move projects forward independently.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills; you have the ability to keep your team aligned and inspired towards a common goal.
• A passion for food and cooking from recipes is a strong plus.

Requirements

• Portfolio showcasing examples of your work (and processes such as research, ideation, sketching, Figma files, etc.).
• Degree or equivalent in design field preferred.
• 3+ years of experience designing for native mobile and web applications.
• Proficient in design tools including Figma, Sketch, After Effects, etc.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.

Our interview process

We know that applying to a new role takes a lot of work and we truly value your time.

Please include a link to your portfolio or case studies when applying to the job. 

1. Introductory call 
2. Portfolio/experience deep dive with hiring manager (2 projects, 20 minutes)
3. Presentation and interview with team
4. 1-1s with team members
5. Reference Checks 

At Samsung Food, we envision a world in which all great ideas have an equal chance of being realised and believe a commitment to diversity and inclusion is vital to making this happen. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ability, marital status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. 

What We Offer

• Contract-based, full-time role (40 hours/week) with a long-term commitment.
• 100% remote work.
• Join a supportive and dynamic team. In 2024, Samsung Food was recognized as a Most Loved Workplace® by the Best Practice Institute (BPI) for our outstanding team culture.