UX Product Designer - Oil & Gas Digital Solutions

Employment Type: W2 Contract Location Type: Remote Location: Houston, TX

Position Overview

We are seeking a talented UX Product Designer to join our client's Digital Solutions Team within the Oil & Gas industry. This role is crucial for developing innovative digital solutions that enhance operational excellence and efficiency across their extensive oilfield services portfolio. We are looking for creative individuals who are passionate about crafting a better future and believe in the power of collaboration.

What You'll Do

• Apply innovative ideas to create the next generation of software products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineers, project managers, data scientists, technical writers, and design professionals globally.
• Design comprehensive, innovative, industry-facing product experiences for critical service delivery applications, such as drilling optimization platforms, completion design systems, reservoir modeling interfaces, and wellbore performance analytics.
• Envision and define the next generation of products by researching new industry areas, interviewing customers, guiding subject matter experts, building user stories, wireframes, and production-grade compositions.

Key Responsibilities

Design Craft

• Manage the end-to-end design process, from discovery and research to prototyping, testing, and final delivery.
• Shape product features in collaboration with product managers.
• Make design decisions that balance user needs with business objectives.
• Design intuitive, elegant, and scalable experiences that solve user problems and drive business goals.
• Conduct user research, interviews, usability testing, and gather user feedback.

Flow, Design System & Processes

• Create user flows, wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Establish and maintain design systems and style guides.
• Adhere to design standards and best practices.

Accountability

• Meet with clients to identify their needs.
• Communicate project specifications to the product design team.
• Research and learn new areas of the industry.
• Interview customers and subject matter experts.
• Generate ideas that improve the user experience.
• Develop user stories and personas.
• Wireframe new product workflows.
• Design and annotate production-grade compositions.
• Organize monthly reviews with management.
• Ensure all work is prioritized and completed correctly.
• Conceptualize and refine product designs.
• Lead workshops to solve complex product challenges.
• Present design concepts and rationale to stakeholders and executives.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure design implementation fidelity.
• Prepare written reports regarding status and progress.
• Analyze user data and metrics to inform design decisions.
• Stay current with design trends and emerging technologies like AR/VR and voice interaction design.

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Degree in Design, Art, Communication, Engineering, or a related specialization. Master's degree preferred.
• Formal studies in relevant disciplines such as User Interface, User Experience, or Interaction Design.
• Skilled in digital product or project design and execution, interpretation of experimental results, and numerical analysis of data.

Experience

• 5-10 years of product design experience.
• A portfolio demonstrating an end-to-end design process and shipped products.
• A solid design approach and process for tackling design problems.
• Ability to articulate design rationale.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams.

Hard Skills

Design Tools & Software

• Expertise in design programs such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar.
• Proficiency in prototyping tools like Framer and Principle.
• Basic understanding of HTML/CSS and front-end development constraints.
• Knowledge of data analysis tools (Google Analytics, Mixpanel, etc.).