Principal Product Designer – Equinox Fitness Clubs

OUR STORY

We are a company with integrated luxury and lifestyle offerings centered on Movement, Nutrition and Regeneration. In addition to Equinox, our other brands, Blink, Pure Yoga, SoulCycle, Furthermore, Precision Run and Equinox Hotels are all recognized for inspiring and motivating members and employees to maximize life. Within our portfolio of brands, we have more than 200 locations within every major city across the United States in addition to London, Toronto, & Vancouver.

OUR CODE

We are passionate about high performance living and we practice what we preach – investing time in our own health and fitness. We believe that everyone has untapped potential within them and it takes a disruptive approach to unleash it. We dream big and don’t settle for the status quo. We sweat the details. We never accept less than 110% to help each other deliver the Equinox experience and enable our members to get great results.  We are obsessed with what’s new, what’s now, what’s next. Never following, always leading, living ahead of the moment in fashion, culture and consumer behavior. We aren’t just a company; we’re a community vested in each other’s success. We value humility and a team approach at every level of the company.

If you are a high performing individual who is passionate about winning and inspiring others, then we are excited to discuss career opportunities with you.

As a Principal Product UX & Product Designer reporting to our Director of Digital Strategy & Innovation, you will help us on our quest to innovate the future member experience as part of our high-performance lifestyle platform and ecosystem. This is a craft-mastery level role for user-centered Human / UX / Interaction / Visual / Product designers that have been honing and perfecting their skills for years to create transformational user experiences that propel businesses forward either through expansion or the creation of new products.

You will deliver effective and intelligent design in collaboration with a nimble and dedicated pod of senior contributors. You will be responsible for designing for our future, today. This role will require you to lead research and strategy, information architecture, interaction and visual design to create awesome UIs across multiple native platforms and devices. You are a designer who can ideate from concept all the way through to final visual design to create amazing products that our members will love and not want to spend a day without as we transform our experiences.

Working closely with our stakeholders and partners across the organization will be key to success throughout the lifecycle of our project initiatives. You have an eye for details and can zoom out on the big picture as well. You obsess over the details and will help us craft pixel-perfect design systems on a foundation of form and function. You make the complex, simple. We move fast, but create space to ideate and innovate as you shape the future. And you will excel under high-profile, high-pressure environments to realize your maximum potential and deliver high-performance.

Responsibilities

• Key member of a small, ninja squad with other principal product & engineering talent
• Collaborate with internal partners to evolve and execute our product innovation strategy
• Support and advance thought leadership opportunities that arise from our work
• Conceive and deliver end-to-end UX for high-value, human-designed, member-facing digital products
• Storyteller, formulating and communicating creative to all audiences across our technology, marketing, operations and executive teams.
• Create and communicate user scenarios, interaction models, and screen designs to the product team, stakeholders and executives with appropriate context.
• Define innovative user interfaces and interactions to maximize usability and productivity
• Define workflows and journey maps that support opportunity-solution prioritization
• Design across the full spectrum of fidelity ranging from pencil/pen/whiteboard sketches to detailed wireframes, clickable prototypes, and high fidelity visual comps
• Perform qualitative user research to understand user needs and evaluate design solutions for usability
• Strong aesthetic and passion for visual design. Aware of the latest trends and avoid fads.
• Lead discovery and research workshop across the org
• Collaborate with other designers to evangelize new interface guidelines and design patterns
• Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor other designers
• Actively seek to understand business requirements to develop solutions
• Ability to think beyond the user interface to connect with our brand & marketing missions

·        7+ years of UX and Product Design experience

·        Experience designing software and native mobile applications

·        Experience designing data-rich interfaces and visualizations

·        Strong command of human- and user-centered design principles, methodologies and best practices as applied to digital products

·        Experience and ability to work iteratively and agile creating harmony with your product and engineering partners

·        Be the voice of the customer advocating what is best for them

·        Identify the most impactful concepts and push them through a thoughtful course of evaluation, execution, implementation and experimentation to determine success/failure.

·        Strong attention to detail and excellent communication skills

·        Mastery of design and prototyping tools (e.g. Sketch, Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud)

·        Portfolio reflecting that experience, including shipped and currently in-market products and demonstrating end-to-end design methodology

·        Experience and expertise designing for mobile platforms, iOS preferred

·        Ability to rapidly prototype native mobile apps a plus!

·        A degree in User Interface Design, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction or a related discipline is a plus!

·        Are optimistic and believe there is a better way to do things

·        Love what you do

As a member of the Equinox Team you will receive:

• Complimentary Club Membership
• Career Growth Opportunities
• Discounts on services, products and much more
• Social/Educational events with other company interns

This job description is intended to describe the general requirements for the position. It is not a complete statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements. Other duties not listed here may be assigned as necessary to ensure the proper operations of the department.

Equinox is an equal opportunity employer. For more information regarding our career opportunities, please visit one of our clubs or our website at https://careers.equinox.com/

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Must have a legal right to work in the United States.