Senior Product Designer
Cognota
- Toronto, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Strategic Design Leadership: Set a strategic design vision for your team, guiding stakeholders through wireframes, flow diagrams, interface designs, and mockups.
- Continuous Discovery and Exploration: Define your problem space through ongoing discovery and exploration, fostering a profound understanding of customer and business needs within your domain.
- Timely Communication of Design Insights: Communicate design insights in a timely manner, translating them into actionable recommendations that shape the product strategy.
- User Research: Utilize qualitative and quantitative research methods to gain insights into our users, sharing your findings with the team to inform decision-making.
- Ensuring Consistent User Experience: Ensure your team delivers a consistent, thoughtful, and comprehensive user experience across all released work.
- Mentorship and Guidance: Mentor and guide less experienced designers, empowering them to realize their full potential and become adept stewards of product design.
- Design System Maintenance: Maintain and elevate our existing Design System to uphold consistency and efficiency in design processes.
- Demonstrates expertise in their design craft, with 3 to 5 years of relevant experience building web SaaS products, capable of delivering meticulously polished experiences.
- Understands how design, product, and engineering collaborate to rapidly deliver high-quality experiences at scale.
- Possesses excellent communication and collaboration skills, facilitating seamless teamwork.
- Deeply understands the strategic direction and vision for their working area, ensuring alignment of all UX efforts with overarching goals.
- Can lead research studies, exhibiting curiosity to delve into customer pain points and emerge with elegant solutions and engaging experiences.
- Showcases mastery of design tools (e.g., Figma, FigJam, Confluence/Jira), knowing which tool to use and when.
- You have prior experience in a startup environment, particularly focused on B2B enterprise software.
- You possess experience in the Learning and Development space, adding depth to our team's expertise.
- A flexible, remote-first way of working, but an appreciation of getting together when it matters
- Competitive pay complemented by stock options
- Medical, dental, vision, and extended health coverage from day one
- Unlimited vacation days
- Monthly “You Days” when the whole company gets the day off to recharge and focus on themselves
- Paid time off on your birthday to celebrate and enjoy a day just for you