Product Designer
Design Tokyo, Japan
About Liferay
Liferay is a uniquely profitable B2B enterprise software company with 1,200+ fiery-eyed employees all across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. As a renowned provider of enterprise open source technologies, we have been recognized by Gartner for empowering businesses around the world to solve complex digital challenges. Liferay Experience Cloud is an all-in-one solution that unites our Liferay DXP and cloud platform capabilities with built-in analytics and B2B commerce functionality, reducing the time to market and allowing for accelerated innovation - serving notable customers across the globe such as Airbus, US Bank, Honda, and Desjardins.
But we don’t just make awesome software, we are also fueled by a greater-than-profit vision. By building a vibrant business, making technology useful, and investing in communities, we make it possible for people to reach their full potential to serve others. We give our employees five days off to volunteer at charities they’re excited about, and Liferay donates 10% of our profits to charities around the world. Oh, we’re also self-funded which gives us the freedom to work on whatever we think brings the most value to customers and communities in the long run!
About You and this Role
Providing design services to our customers by applying design best practices globally is a high priority for our business. We’re looking for a confident designer with agency or consulting experience that can serve our customers and partners to succeed in launching business critical digital solutions. We have a global design team covering Europe, Latin America, and North America that are excited to build with you in Asia Pacific. You’ll be working with sales and consulting teams, interfacing directly with prospects and customers along the complete software development lifecycle.
Sometimes you’ll work independently, guiding stakeholders along the entire design process from research and strategy to implementation, iterating along the way. Other times you'll work collaboratively with other designers to deliver the entire experience for customer projects. Recent enterprise solutions this role has delivered for were customer and insurance agent portals, a global logistics portal for shipping activities , and a multi-site e-commerce solution for a major manufacturer.
Key Objectives
- Onboard and get to know the APAC business team and the global design team.
- Lead the discovery and design for a variety of customer projects ranging from logistics, manufacturing, to government portals
- With your manager and business stakeholders, build a strategy and process to increase our presales impact in APAC.
Required Qualifications
- Excellent communication skills – fluent in Japanese with solid, conversational-level English – written communication is a significant part of our workflow.
- 2+ years experience of successfully shipped end to end designs for digital products and web/mobile applications , leading customer-facing projects and workshops
- Owned or worked within design systems that you regularly contributed to and helped evolve
- Experience leading a visual design direction for a new or redesigned product that accounts for accessibility requirements
- Business acumen – being strategic and pragmatic about investing time and effort, while also effectively managing customer expectations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing for B2B/enterprise will help your application stand out!
- Agency experience working with clients to manage expectations is ideal
- A passion for iconography or illustration – never hurts to have someone with an eye for these details
What We Offer
- Salary package w/ competitive benefits according to qualifications and experience
- Opportunities to take responsibility, grow professionally, and Stay Nerdy
- A positive and collaborative work culture
Equal Opportunities Employer - Statement
Liferay is committed to the equal treatment of all candidates, customers and employees and to fostering a culture of dignity at work. Our operating procedure provides for equal opportunities in recruitment and employment with the aim to eliminate discrimination against any job applicant or employee on the basis of race, age, sexual orientation, gender, religion or beliefs, marital or civil partnerships status, family or dependency status, disability, pregnancy and maternity or membership of a traveling community.