The Staff Product Designer will lead design projects, enhance user experiences across products, and contribute to design systems while mentoring a team.
Company Summary
EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products.
Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV.
Department Summary
Beyond connecting customers to their favorite entertainment, our Video Services team delivers an award-winning TV experience to millions of customers across DISH TV and Sling TV platforms. Our dynamic teams are unwavering in our commitment to continuous innovation, ensuring the evolution of products and the constant enhancement of the overall customer experience.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Skills, Experience and Requirements
Education and Experience:
Skills and Qualifications:
Visa sponsorship not available for this role
Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person on-site interview.
Salary Ranges
Compensation: $96,250.00/Year - $158,125.00/Year
Benefits
We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: DISH Benefits .
The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location.
Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check. Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.
The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.
EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products.
Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV.
Department Summary
Beyond connecting customers to their favorite entertainment, our Video Services team delivers an award-winning TV experience to millions of customers across DISH TV and Sling TV platforms. Our dynamic teams are unwavering in our commitment to continuous innovation, ensuring the evolution of products and the constant enhancement of the overall customer experience.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Build partnerships and collaborates across business units, stakeholders, disciplines, and product areas to ensure user experience consistency and alignment with company objectives
- Contribute to the evolution and governance of the enterprise design system
- Develops and implements innovative team practices and processes that drive change and identify new opportunities for value creation
- You are a thought leader inside and outside of DISH, providing clear vision for the future of design. Contribute to a growing library of 'plays' that help operationalize design work to ensure consistency in execution
- Master, refine, and evolve the user experiences and usability of our TV and mobile products
- Be a coach and mentor to the product design team
- Evangelize the value of a mature design practice, and help develop standards and best-practices for design operations
- Collaborate with leadership to identify, benchmark and track UX metrics across products
Skills, Experience and Requirements
Education and Experience:
- 7+ years of experience with a proven track record of bringing to market digital experiences - start to finish
- Bachelor's degree in UX, Interaction Design, HCI or similar from a four-year college or university
- UX certification OR relevant work experience OR a combination of education and relevant work experience will be considered
- At least 7 years experience as a UX or Product Designer
- Real-world experience applying principles of agile, Design Thinking, and/or User-Centered Design methods to the product development life-cycle
- Experience in developing experiences for people to find and watch video content on TVs, mobile, and streaming players preferred
- Expert knowledge of common design tool stacks
- Expert at bringing customers into the design process, from early discovery-phase user research, through to hypothesis validation via user testing
- Experience working on TV interfaces and video content delivery services
- Experience working with video content delivery services
- Experience designing for multiple platforms, including desktop, mobile, TV, wearables, and voice
- Working as an embedded designer with a product manager and tech lead
- Experience contributing to high-level product design objectives and strategies
Skills and Qualifications:
- Able to handle design projects independently end-to-end, from conception to post-launch monitoring
- Effective, adaptable design process that covers the entire product design life-cycle
- Expert knowledge of design systems
- Deep understanding of user-centered design methods, and the tactical expertise that comes from regular, practical application of these design methods, preferably at enterprise-scale
- Ability to lead a group of designers at the project level, and the power to influence others in order to build consensus while dealing with ambiguity
- Deep understanding of user data and digital experience analytics, and experience leveraging data to derive insights useful to design
- The ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment that demands autonomy, accountability and results
- Ability to identify MVP, and protect it from scope creep, and/or feature erosion
Visa sponsorship not available for this role
Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person on-site interview.
Salary Ranges
Compensation: $96,250.00/Year - $158,125.00/Year
Benefits
We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: DISH Benefits .
The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location.
Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check. Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.
The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.
Top Skills
Agile
Design Thinking
Design Tool Stacks
Hci
Interaction Design
User-Centered Design
Ux
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