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Senior Product Designer (Contract)

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Pinnacol Assurance does just one thing, and does it better than anyone: provide caring workers’ compensation protection to Colorado employers and employees. And while we may be a little biased, we believe that our work shapes communities and changes lives.

We have big hearts and love big ideas. We’ve been around for more than  100 years, but don’t let that fool you. Pinnacol is committed to taking care of Colorado employers and workers in the most innovative ways. We celebrate continuous improvement, new ideas, compassion, teamwork, integrity and excellence.

What you can expect:

As a Senior Product Designer, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our products and user experiences. You will be responsible for leading the design process from conception to launch, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative and user-centric solutions.

What you'll do:

  • Lead the end-to-end design process for new products and features, from ideation and concept development to prototyping, testing, and implementation.
  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define product requirements and design specifications.
  • Contribute to product strategy and roadmaps through customer research and design explorations
  • Conduct user research to understand user needs, behaviors, and pain points.
  • Create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to communicate design concepts and gather feedback.
  • Iterate on designs based on user feedback and data.
  • Develop and maintain design systems and guidelines.
  • Present design concepts and rationale to stakeholders.
  • Mentor and guide junior designers.
  • Contribute to achieving key product milestones by creating the designs that drive customer growth, NPS score, conversions, and much more
  • Review metrics and analytics to track and measure the impact of design

Additional Duties

  • Build and maintain design documentation. Including but not limited to enterprise UI Style guide, Customer Journey maps, SiteFlows, and User flows
  • Ensure usage of consistent branding, language, and design across products.
  • Stay current on knowledge and skills necessary for in the area of product design best practices and, platform capabilities
  • Conduct interviews with candidates to make sure they have the product design skills to complete the job
  • Perform other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in design or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in product design, with a proven track record of delivering successful products.
  • Strong knowledge and ability to work across all phases of the digital product design process; including user research, ux writing, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, interaction design, and usability testing
  • Proficiency in tools such as Figma, Usertesting.com, Miro, Productboard, and Asana
  • Ability to analyze data from user research and synthesize those insights to inform product decisions
  • Ability to adapt your designs across a variety of platforms and form factors
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
  • A portfolio showcasing your design skills and experience.

Competencies

  • Developing Others: Fostering employee development by providing a supportive learning environment.
  • Adaptability: Adapting in order to work effectively in ambiguous or changing situations, and with diverse individuals and groups.
  • Interactive communication: Listening to others and communicating articulately, fostering open communication.
  • Creativity and innovation: Generating viable, new approaches and solutions.
  • Relationship Building: Establishing, sustaining and fostering professional contacts to build, enhance and connect networks for work purposes.
  • Teamwork: Working collaboratively with others to achieve organizational goals.
  • Curiosity/inquiry: The disposition to respectfully and tactfully ask questions, investigate, research and/or demonstrate an inherent motivation to learn and grow in familiarity with a certain subject area or circumstance.
  • Empathy: Learning the users needs and applying them to the design solution. Is critical to creating user-centered designs.
  • Impact and influence: Influencing and gaining others' support.

WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES:

  • Regular attendance required. Extensive telephone and computer work in a remote environment.

DISCLAIMER:
  • This description is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or qualifications associated with this job.

Contract and Compensation Details

When we find the right person, we want to put our best foot forward with an offer that excites you. We consider what you'd like to be paid, the skills and experience you bring, and what similar jobs pay in the Denver area. We also make sure there's equal pay for equal work among those you'll be working with.

  • This is a 6 month contract position. Contract to permanent is possible but not guaranteed. 
  • The compensation for this role is targeted at $65.00-$85.00 per hour.
  • Payroll & benefits will be administered through an agency partnership.
  • This is a remote position, applicants must be located in the United States.
  • Must be able to work a flexible M-F 8am-5pm MST schedule.
  • Will not be contracting 1099 applicants directly.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including your experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Want to love your work? Apply today!

Pinnacol is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email recruiting_team@pinnacol

This posting will close 15 days after being published: December 12th 2025

Salary Range

$65 - $85 USD

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