Product Designer - AU
Posted on:
September 3, 2025
Job description
As a Product Designer at Neara, you will have an opportunity to shape product strategy, champion user needs, and grow your career in a dynamic startup environment where your impact will be felt immediately.
You'll partner closely with Product Managers and Owners on strategy and discovery, collaborate with engineering teams on technical implementation, and work alongside the UI/UX Team to maintain design consistency and elevate our overall design system.
Responsibilities
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Lead product discovery and design processes to drive solution delivery and product development.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Managers, Engineers, and UI/UX teams to shape product vision and strategic direction.
- Manage end-to-end design processes, from user research and ideation to prototyping and implementation.
- Deliver customer journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that solve complex user problems.
- Contribute to and improve the master design system by establishing new patterns and improving consistency.
- Conduct user research, stakeholder interviews, and usability testing to gather insights for informed design decisions.
- Communicate design specifications, interaction flows, and recommendations clearly across all stakeholder levels.
- Enhance usability across product verticals that have been previously under-serviced.
- Take ownership of specific product areas and user journeys, identifying improvement opportunities.
- Mentor team members and elevate overall design maturity across the organisation.
Job requirements
WHO YOU ARE
- 4+ years experience in UX or Product Design roles.
- Experience in user research and product discovery activities including user interviews, survey design, usability testing, product metric analysis, and comparative reviews.
- Experience in solution design activities including wireframing, prototyping, and high-fidelity design.
- Experience working in startup or consulting environments with fast-paced, iterative workflows.
- Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams with engineers and product managers.
- Ability to think tactically and strategically about design problems and business needs.
- Strong problem decomposition skills and ability to identify unknowns in complex projects.
- Collaborative mindset with openness to feedback and ability to defend design decisions using user data.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for stakeholder engagement at all levels.
