Job Description

What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

Digital Product Designers at Southern Glazer’s work with one or more product portfolios and generally in pairs with a senior product designer, reporting to the Director, Digital Product Design. 

Primary Responsibilities

• Ideate and develop design concepts
• Understand the product's users and their needs and buying habits
• Lead problem-framing & ideation sessions
• Lead design concepting and storyboarding to map out ideas
• Create design hypotheses and explore divergent ideas and potential solutions
• Prototype and iterate:
  • Create user flows, storyboards, high quality wireframes, low and high-fidelity design prototypes
  • Rapidly transform concepts into functional prototypes for quick validation
  • Collaborate with design researchers to continuously learn & iterate design work
• Present design work:
  • Support design reviews with executive-level colleagues by creating prototypes and presentations
  • Provide solid rationale for design decisions
  • Make compelling and persuasive presentation of ideas, concepts, and in-progress design work

Additional Primary Responsibilities

• Ensure design coherence and use the design system:
  • Improve the quality of our digital experiences by using the design system and consistent interaction design patterns
  • Apply brand guidelines consistently across mobile and web platforms
• Collaborate with product development:
  • Appropriately inclusive of software development in the design process
  • Collaborate with other designers, software engineering, analytics, and QA teammates to bring ideas to life and products to market

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years of digital product design experience, inclusive of mobile app design, web design, and design systems
• 2+ years of experience designing enterprise-level e-commerce applications (web and/or native app)
• Portfolio inclusive of digital project work showing end-to-end experience: from ideation to launch
• Education or training in visual design, graphic design, or related field
• High level of visual design skills with ability to create polished, aesthetically pleasing interfaces
• Experience with brand development, implementation, and maintenance
• Demonstrated ability to work rapidly and efficiently, turning concepts into prototypes with quick turnaround
• Specialized experience designing for mobile app platforms (iOS and Android)
• Familiarity with the full digital product lifecycle, using product roadmaps, story mapping, writing design stories, designing features, direct collaboration with development teams
• Proficient knowledge of:
  • Design & prototyping tools
  • Collaboration tools 
  • Global design systems
  • Responsive design best practices
  • Brand identity implementation and maintenance
• Ability to generate, visualize and prototype new concepts to demonstrate and test with users and stakeholders

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lb

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

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