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# Product designer

Define guidelines and build visual and system level plans for user interactions with the Redivis product. 

## Contributions

You specialize in discovering and meeting user needs. You're fully invested in the way users are interacting with our product and optimize for success for everyone. You bring a focus on intentionality and empathy to projects throughout Redivis that ultimately elevates every users' experience.

## Outputs

* Research reports
* Design plans
* Wireframes
* Prototypes
* Product mocks
* System docs
* Design system component library

## Career progression

| Individual contributor (IC)                                                       | Manager                                                                              | Salary level |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ |
| [Junior designer](/careers/design.md#junior-designer)                             |                                                                                      | 3            |
| [Designer](/careers/design.md#designer)                                           |                                                                                      | 4            |
| [Senior designer](/careers/design.md#senior-designer)                             |                                                                                      | 5            |
| [Lead designer](/careers/design.md#lead-designer-design-manager)                  | [Design manager](/careers/design.md#lead-designer-design-manager)                    | 6            |
| [Principal designer](/careers/design.md#principal-designer-senior-design-manager) | [Senior design manager](/careers/design.md#principal-designer-senior-design-manager) | 7            |
| [Creative director](/careers/design.md#creative-director-design-director)         | [Design director](/careers/design.md#creative-director-design-director)              | 8            |

#### Leadership and tracks

Everyone being promoted from Senior designer onward will be expected to step into a leadership role depending on what [track](/careers/growth-and-progression.md#tracks) they're on.

## Core design skills favored

All designers are evaluated on a set of [core skills](/careers/design.md#core-skills) which will vary person to person.

* [Interaction design](/careers/design.md#interaction-design)
* [Research](/careers/design.md#research)
* [Prototyping](/careers/design.md#prototyping)
* [Information architecture](/careers/design.md#information-architecture)
* [Strategy](/careers/design.md#strategy)